Saving My Season
This fucking guy…
The thing that pisses me off most about the Giants is how they manage call ups. Ryder Jones is a classic *guy* in the system. The best he could hope for is to one day be a runner on a street corner for The Bowker Gang. That’s it. And yet he got the call before “no more yanky my wanky.”
How do you keep this guy down for so long? In a lost season that was brought on by many stupid management decisions, they leave this great South Korean hero to twist aimlessly in the Sacramento winds; to wilt, wallow….nearly fade away.
Da Donger need food. Feed him.
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By the way, Kruk’s radio call on Donger dong was epic. Has Ryder gotten a hit yet? Right now I’d just settle for him not swinging at balls that hit him.
Kuip not Kruk
Kuip’s call was great, but that Korean call that Dirt posted was THE SHIT. That was fucking awesome!
I scratch my head constantly on Giant roster moves. The constant keeping of hurt guys active that can’t actually play instead of DL and bring some guy up to at least have a full 25 frosts me, I just don’t get it. Fly Pence cross country overnight, ship out Arroyo, and then don’t play Pence because he’ll be too tired, when they could have just flown him to Chicago to meet them to start the next series. DL Melancon and decide to bring up this Slania or whoever all the way from the East Coast, right before they leave to fly to Pittsburgh. Donger isn’t ready for a try until right before his contract milestone comes due to be able to bail back to Korea, or whatever it is. I’d like to know the thought process behind this wackiness…
There’s a thought process? Wow…
Rosenthal needs to release another story about internal strife in the clubhouse. Seems to have stoked some energy onto this crew…
No shit. They need to get “It’s Us Against the World” angry…take no prisoners!
Pretty long list of total losers who Evans constructed as Giants bench/LF: Parker and Mac, Hill and Marrero, Gorkys Stubbs Morse. Jones I don’t have problem with as apparently he was lot better defender at 3b and he’s looked good over there what I saw.
Here is list from Chron of other SF Giants who homered for first hit in their first game:
Duvall
Pill
Crawford
Bowker
Alonzo
Kutcher
Will Clark
Lemaster aka Boo
the count in 74 do remember that one vs. LA
Bobby Bonds
Cepeda
Bonds and Crawford had grand slams, I recall
I thought Brian Dallimore, too but it was his 2nd game…
another excellent Stanford man
Runner for The Bowker Gang is a gateway to the Japanese leagues. I don’t even want to know what Donger’s got on his head there.
Looked over at some Sac stuff, not pretty picture. Parker is batting .180, Mac .256 Shaw .255.
Trevor Brown is under Mendoza line at .148 and 4 for his last 34.
Not sure what they will ultimately do with Hwang, but dang some RH power definitely a plus at ATT. Unless he’s really a butcher at 3b, let him be a 7 inning/3 AB guy like they used to do with Burrell.
Nice to see Hundley pop one. I was OK with signing him as vet back up C with NL West experience but thought he would hit better off bench. I just don’t see Brown as ml C that can backup Posey without being another auto out.
Could be a new version of a Dong Trooper helmet..
Bummie is starting Friday for the River kitties on Friday. Chuck, you should give it a look. If I was still living up there I would.
When does Cain get the mystery oblique strain? My guess is next Tuesday. . .
can you imagine Ryder Jones putting that fucking black and white plastic bag hat on his head? No fucking way. And that right there is why Donger stays and Ryder must go. That, and Donger doesn’t swing at balls that hit him…..
What is the origin of the Donger nickname? Is it only known here?
yes. I made it up from my love of the movie 16 Candles and home runs hit by Giants from South Korea
Loo, the Asian exchange student that lived with Molly Ringwald’s character was named Long Duk Dong.
Thanks, Loo. I was afraid to ask, fearing I’d get a, “What?! Everybody knows how he got his nickname! etc. etc.” I figured it was Magnus, but I lost the thread of cultural references. Man, sociologists could write papers on the evolution of nicknames here.
Donger is PR dream!!
Now if only Ryder was dating Honey 🍯 we have some material to work with..,
New food at the park,
Donger Dogs,Long Dong Silver fish& chips,Won Dong Soup 🍜,Sierra Dong Ale🍺,
maybe a little hookup for extra marketing with Rae Dawn Chong for a Dong Chong special?
Gotta love it: Dodgers lost last night on a play in bottom of 9th tie game I don’t think I ever heard of before–walk off K.
Ben Revere of Angels got on 1b due to error by fill in SS Taylor then was wild pitched to 2b by Pedro Baez. With 2 out and 2 strikes on Maybin, Baez crossed up Grandal, who booted 3rd strike for a passed ball and then threw over the head of Utley at 1b as Revere crossed plate with winning run.
that’s crazy! what’s Elias Sports Bureau say? I wonder if that’s listed as one of the 13, or whatever number it is, ways you can score from 3rd
Revere was on second when Baez threw the pitch that Grandal flubbed what should have been his 2nd passed ball of the inning. Yeah, it was straight out of Little League. In essence, Baez got all 3 outs. Taylor definitely no Seager at short to allow Revere to get on. Grandal’s throw to Utley at 1st didn’t need to be rushed because Maybin started late to 1st. Then looked like Utley alligator armed the catch cause he saw Revere rounding 3rd, he was probably thinking of coming straight home with it after he caught it. Total clusterfuck.
Roooster is making valuable contributions here lately.
How about a Flap-a-Roooster in LA sometime?
Flap-a-Roooster sounds kinda cool. It would be the most bipartisan event in America.
I think there was only 1 out before the K, but it doesn’t make such a brutal loss for the Dodgers any less anusing.
street corner runner for the Bowker Gang is gold
Sure is…
Ryder Jones boyhood idol was Adam Shabala…
Allstars: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/picking-the-2017-national-league-all-stars/
Gotta look up Eugenio….seem to remember something about on 0-fer the season. Was that with LA? I think Twin commented on it, how they (Mattingly?) screwed with him.
yeah found it. 2011 he was with LA, got 37 ABs and went 0-fer. Ouch.
Poor guy. Also famously immortalized by Kruk’s famous so called Ugly Finder foul ball that almost killed him.
I highly doubt Roooster lives in LA
and if Loo were to come out here, last place to visit.
I’ve always hung my hat in the beach cities. Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach….. never Manhattan Beach though, too damned expensive. It’s funny, they all run together, if you weren’t from here you’d never know when you pass from one to the next, but if your address has Manhattan Beach on it, you pay WAY more for rent or mortgage for essentially the same thing.
The Donger head gear kinda reminds me of the Woody Allen flick:”Everything you wanted to know about sex”
He’s rarin to go in the sperm launch chamber..
Totally great reference…
Spectacular!
Snarkk using the words thought process with Giants current mgmt is equivalent to the words “Republican Agenda” in Congress…
Who is closing for our Gigantes??? Will they give Crick a go? Wouldn’t that be great if he took command???
that fucking scared skinny Rueschel is our new closer. Pathetic.
Krukow’s prediction-call on TV on the Donger’s HR was good. 2-0 pitch coming and Kruk said something like: “He’s got some power; he’ll be swinging for a home run here.” And pow! As the ball was flying, Fleming said: “And he may have done it!”
lol
for some reason, that weirdo pic of Donger reminded me of this, one of the worst tv shows of all time that I watched fairly religiously as a kid for some reason
I liked her better as Gidget.
Less whack-off remorse…
porn has come a long way.
Children are better than nuns?
C’mon, Chuck. She was 18, I was 10.
We made it work…
I’m not as negative about the show. The “flying nun” idea was silly; but the show had a lot of heart, and Sally Field was becoming a great actress in the process.
The ’60s had a lot of shows with gimmicks. A talking horse, an astronaut with a genie, a dolphin that solved crimes, and on and on.
Half the time was spent smacking the side of the TV to try to get a picture.
Vertical Hold anyone?
Ha! Good times they were. 🙂
My Favorite Martian . . . Bill Bixby in his black-and-white, and pre-green, days. And Mr. Hand of course.
Awful injury for Yanks OF Dustin Fowler, who was making his MLB debut but suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in his knee after running into wall along RF foul line in the 1st inning. He’s having surgery tonight.
we’ve got our own problems, I can’t spend time boo hooing about the Yankees lol