Perfection And Embarrassing Failure in the Bay Area
Beloved Dubs easing some of the misery of this 2017 baseball season. I respect Lebron’s talent but I don’t like him, Cleveland or the Cav fans. LeFlop literally faked his own death right on the court last night and you don’t usually get that type of comedy in such a big game. The KD dagger was epic and I loved what he said in the immediate post game interview: “I’ve been practicing that shot my whole life.” I kinda hope the Warriors lose tomorrow just so they can take down the crown in front of the home town crowd. Three World Series championships and an NBA championship in the bank since 2010 and not one of them went down in the Bay Area. Can we ever get one of these to go down at home?????
Now back to reality. Johnny Showcase Day! Manage your blisters, pitch well, I’ll give you a knowing dude head nod on your way to New York or Boston…..
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
when you think about it, it is kind of odd Giants have so many white guys/so few Hispanic or black players on this year team in contrast to most of rest of baseball…Phils especially.
Another one they cut ties with last year will be in town Friday—Triple O with the Twins.
Interesting enough, A’s are very similar, just a couple Hispanic pitchers (including Casilla who I watched blow away Josh Donaldson with high hard one for a save) plus Khris Davis, Rajai and the injured M Semien. Rajai is done, but the other two are young and exciting guys. So is the pitcher J Cotton.
As someone mentioned, who excites anyone (in a good way not throwing stuff at the screen) on this team beside the likely soon departed Cueto?
Nice clip from the movie, Loo. Barnes does look like the tenor sax guy minus of course all the artwork.
i believe it’s random that we have so many honky’s on the team but it’s going to look even worse when Cueto, Nunie, Gorks and Calixte leave…..
is your A’s friend buddy excited about them? I catch an inning or two late in their home games sometimes. they aren’t very good and play terrible D but they hit a ton of bombs out of the Mausoleum no less and have some young guys that show potential. Donaldson did get revenge on them last night.
But they sure aren’t boring…even Mulder who announces a lot is upgrade. Interesting contrast to what Evans Giants have going on.
Remember when KD came out and teams were worried because he couldn’t bench 225? Lulz
Gotta admit, that last 1 on 1 from Irving is all that’s wrong with today’s game, and I see it trickle down to 10 yr kids all the time including all the kids who aspire to be next Steph Curry.
A dozen flashy dribble moves, and ten seconds later the ball is still 20 some odd feet from the hoop and all you get is a contested outside shot. Sign of the AAU apocalypse approach to basketball.
Theoretically, Durant was the same situation. If he misses that shot and the Warriors lose last night, then a lot of people would be asking why didn’t he learn his lesson from the Christmas Day loss? Run a play.
To his credit, he made the shot, and that’s all people will remember. Green getting in his face after the Christmas loss will be largely forgotten.
He made the shot last night on the biggest stage. He had supreme confidence in the shot.
Like he said, and as Craig mentions, “I’ve been practicing that shot my whole life.”
Fucking Astros beat writers are just as bad as the Giants. Keuchel gets scratched last night minutes before the game starts and not one of these idiots can get an explanation other than it was due to “illness”? Plus they just disappear from Twitter so they don’t have to respond to any of the questions. Pathetic.
I have watched all three games between Cavs and Warriors…more NBA games than I watched all damned year. And it has been entertaining ball. Two blow-outs, and a nail-biting come-back win last night. One more…
Yeah as much as those Warriors fans must dish out for tickets, it would be nice for them to see them win it at home.
Mixed feelings between winning it at home and closing it out Friday. I lean towards closing it out Friday with a sweep of the entire playoffs…
My A’s fan buddy has grown increasingly frustrated with the team and the way they sell tickets. He got into a huge ta-do with them when they wouldn’t let him buy individual tickets that were not sitting next to each other. In other words, he found a row with no buyers (obviously there were lots of these) and he tried to buy individual tickets next to him so that he would have a buffer zone for his young daughter that he wanted to take to the game. The A’s denied this at first. He caused a huge fit and they ended up profusely apologizing and giving him seats right behind home plate. This happened last year.
I say sweep. Get it done. The Cavs, to a man, sounded absolutely demoralized by the loss yesterday.
1. Denard Span (L) CF
2. Eduardo Nunez (R) 3B
3. Joe Panik (L) 2B
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
6. Nick Hundley (R) C
7. Gorkys Hernandez (R) RF
8. Austin Slater (R) LF
9. Johnny Cueto (R) P
Zumie, with the time left in the game (~40 seconds) a miss wouldn’t have sealed the loss. Get a stop and the W’s can still tie/take the lead on the next possession. Thompson, Curry, or KD would get the green light in that scenario. They live and die on the trey, so he took it. Plus we were beating them on the boards pretty good.
If I hear Mark Jackson say one more time that a 3-ball is “a layup to Curry/Klay/KD” I’m gonna kill him. A 3 is NOT a layup no matter howe easy they make it look. He of all people should know that.
Oh good. A morning (mourning) game?
See if Johnny Bravo can muster up the split.
The scrubini lineup today makes it a bigger challenge, though.
Ahhh, no Posey. And Christian Slater in the OF.
I’m with BF that it would be nice for Dubs to take it at home. But, get it tomorrow if possible, don’t give them any hope…
Pretty classic of Lebron getting decked by his own teammate and probably wanted a foul call on the Dubs!
Maybe the refs should of called a flagrant foul on his teammate and given the Dubs some free throws..
Just started Leo Durocher bio. check this out from his first days in minors in 1925. His team is going against player-mgr Stengel, and, “One day when the two teams met, Stengel got to the ballpark early, and while the Senators (of Hartford Durocher’s team) were holding a meeting Stengel went out to the SS position and scratched Durocher’s batting avg.—.208 at the time—in the dirt in letters six feet tall.”
Man baseball was lot grittier game 90 years ago.
I want to get to that book eventually.
I’m currently reading Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here,” his 1935 novel about a fascist takeover of the U.S.
It reads less like fiction these days….
The way Kuiper says “Belt will take his walks” doesn’t sound like a big compliment.
Wilco– that Keuchel thing pissed me off. I had him (and Buck Farmer) in my h2h and there was zero heads up he was dealing with an illness. I still beat my opponent 113 to 88 even with the 0 I took from him but it was irritating at the time.
It’s come to this: I’m watching a U.S. women’s soccer friendly over the Giants.
It’s being reported that Morse also injured his ribs in the Strick fiasco.
I realize if Strick hadn’t done what he did yada yada, but Morse and Samrdz running into each other full steam and colliding is really only their own fault imo.
Jesus. Can’t we call the Morse experiment done?
Sometimes Bochy is the last to know.
Boom! From a LF no less. Good for the kid no doubt rocket and Cueto has lead again.
I guess Johnny hasn’t been peeing on his hand.
Austin power!
nice
Ha. You back from the ladies’ friendly, Mac?
Yep, U.S. beat the Swedes 1-nil.
this morning on Kruk’s show he described the parade of LF’s this year as “sheep heading to slaughter” which I thought was funny. He then went on to say someone had to step up and produce (obvious). Slater hitting a bomb today is nice but I don’t think he’s even close to a LF answer. But hey, Stanford man, so I can give him a little more rope I guess….
Lordy, this team is bad.
Eucker is questioning Hernandez’s slide.
OK, well, Hill can stay . . .
Charlie – I was just about to say, “and THAT is why you want a vet like Hill on the club.” As opposed to a vet like Morse. 😉
by the way, Happy Birthday my man!
Thanks, Flav. The big six-oh. But not a damned thing feels different!
Hill again? Nice. Need a guy like him on the bench.
Garko was a Stanford man as well BF,and we all know how that one turned out..
Hah. Someone older than me! HBD, Chi!
Great closer we got here.
Gerrrrrrrrrrk. Saved by the wall. Maybe.
Temoprarilly.
Melancon of a bitch.
Wow. Good, bad, and ugly all in one half inning.
Is this Melancon dude still hurt?
Was he damaged goods when they signed him?
From the get go, he’s seemed no better than anybody else in the Pen.
It’s not that he’s been overused, that’s for sure…
Underused if anything.
Yep, and he still went on DL with elbow or forearm or whatever it was…
Think Melonhead pitches in the bottom of the 10th?
Or did Pence just bat in his spot?
Just got out of work, hoped in my car, heard one batter (span) and flemm is absolutely beside himself at how unlikely this win might be. Looking forward to seeing the highlights at mlb.com
Huh. 10th inning thunder. Whodathunk?
Specs comes through again in the clutch.
If they send him back down again, I’ll consider that management has no idea what it is doing…
Twins picked up Charlton Heston?
What are the odds on Law getting outs 1-2-3?…
Pretty long, apparently.
Sheezus. 2 hits already.
This Pen is true doggy doo…
It’s a win, I guess.
Phew, Law nicely extricated w/ double play to end this bad boy with a win.
After the Melancon Meltdown, a rather uplifting result.
At this stage, a split of a roadie 4-gamer set is pretty good. A win every once in a while helps keep me interested. All I want now is see how these young farm players will succeed, or fail. Cueto — trade him. Morse and these other retreads who are gone for sure next year, cut ’em loose sooner than later. Is Hundley really better than Brown would have been? At handling pitchers, I suppose. At hitting, no…
Hey a win is a win is a win.
True.
I ain’t holding my breath, but all they need to do is start winning serieses.
Melancon got the win. That’s pretty funny.
For $64 million, it’s hilarious…
Melancon not only sucks, but he’s another fidgety honky who takes forever between pitches…
“honky”…lqtm
I didn’t know Melancon came up with the Yanks…
This win is nice and all but I’ve got a little story about an old friend of mine who recently took over executive chef responsibilities at the colosseum. It sounds fancy and whatnot but all he really does is come up with the menu, make the food orders and boss around the staff. What’s cool about it is that Rickey stops by regularly and they’ve apparently become good pals. Now he’s posting pictures every day of him and Rickey like they’re a new couple or something. There they are playing ping pong on Monday and going skeet shooting on Wednesday. Fucking skeet shooting with The Rickey. They’re going golfing or some shit tomorrow. I’m not often jealous but Rickey was my favorite player as a kid and this is nuts.
that’s cool. Does he refer to himself as “Rickey” when they’re hanging out? Doesn’t Rickey have anyone else to hang out with? This is kinda weird, right? He was one of my all time fav players too
Yeah, it is kind of weird but from what he says he beat him pretty good at ping pong and they struck it up from there. I imagine Rickey is still pretty competitive and my buddy was an epic ping pong player back in the day so it sounds like Rickey took a liking to him. He’s chef at some exclusive club level area and a lot of the team’s famous vets stop by to do the meet and greet deal. It looks like they’re usually on a group date so the staff is probably close or something. Really, what the hell else does Rickey have to do? I don’t picture him staying home and reading. I haven’t asked if Rickey calls himself Rickey when they’re hanging out but his feed is full of “Rickey like you cooking at Rickey’s field” type blasts
Hey, hey, we’re the Honkys
And people say we honky around
But we’re too busy losing
To send anybody down
POTD
You know the song? You’re too young…
it’s pretty popular, I’d have to live in a hole to have never heard it. I like your lyrics better.
thinking of our good friend PK today and his mom
Paul Kocak @kocakwords 2m2 minutes ago
My mom, 100, must have 9 lives. Fell. Cracked skull. Brain bleeding. That was Monday. Discharged from hospital to a rehab today. Long day.
She must be a tough ol’ bird.
And, I mean that as a compliment…
Damn. Sorry to hear that, wherever you are, Paul.