Even Steven
Fun little win easy win vs a boring Mariners team. I got a kick out of seeing who’s clogging up the top spots of our team batting average so far this year:
A day off today before LA comes to town. The schedule to start this season is stupid…….
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props to Kruk who said, on yesterday’s morning show, that the Giants would blow out the Mariners in the 4th inning and score 10 runs.
Also, as you noted – King Felix hasn’t been a “King” for at least 2 years. More like the Court Jester.
And still a great pitcher. A lot of innings on that arm since he came up at the age of 18 and it’s catching up with him now. But easily one of the top five pitchers in the game when he was at is best. Just nasty.
Meanwhile, AZ at 5-1 Giants Rox 3-3. LA 2-5 Pads1-5. watched some of Pads game last night.
Rox lit up C Richard for 5 runs in first couple and J Gray coasted from there. Couple nice D plays from Cargo in RF and LeMahieu at 2b saved runs.
Kinda surprised Rox tossed Blackmon $100 mil/6 yrs after agreeing to one year deal to start season.
He’s 31 now and will be 37 by end of contract. Great season last year but—.784 OPS on road.
I think Arenado is FA after this year…might take more $$$ than that,
Arenado is FA after 2019, next year. Rox re-worked this year and extended Blackmon another 5, mostly front loaded.
Guy rakes at Sherptown, and lit up road yards 2016, not so much last year. You could make argument as some bloggers on MLBTR did that NL West does have mostly pitcher friendly parks where he hits more often.
And he is off to good start with 4 bombs/.333 BA, on the road.
And Rockies have to do the Un-Moneyball A’s thing and keep their players to keep fans happy…
Really stupid schedule…glad Gorkys has continued his “muscle-building routine.”
By the end of the D-Backs/Dodgers series, the D-Backs broadcasters were believers that the humidor has an effect. The series had normal baseball scores. More balls were being caught on the warning track instead of flying over the fence. The D-Backs do have some good pitchers, so they can take advantage of the new situation in their ballpark. I think in the beginning of the series the Arizona broadcasters (Brenley and the other guy) were sounding a bit distressed by what the humidor had done to the baseballs; but as the series went on, and the D-Backs were in the process of sweeping the Dodgers, those two broadcasters were sounding more and more comfortable with what the humidor was doing. Goldschmidt and the other D-Backs hitters make take longer to appreciate it.
The Dodgers were stunned by how some baseballs they had crushed were staying in the park, and were just long outs. They had that look on their faces like they had been “AT&T-ed” by the Giants’ park.
I thought Colorado was the place for humidoring balls. They are doing it in AZ now? Whatever, as long as Cueto doesn’t get any blisters.
Yeah, Arizona added the humidor this season. I’m guessing that was forced on them by MLB.
Or…..maybe the team was pushing for the humidor.
From an article:
“During a radio interview last April, Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall cited pitchers’ difficulty in gripping the baseball in Arizona’s hot, dry air as one of the primary reasons for the humidor.
“They all talked about the grip,” Hall told Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. “The one thing you don’t really want to do is negatively impact the offense because that’s part of the fun of Chase Field or Coors Field.”
Yes, skyrocketing pitcher ERAs ‘part of the fun’ of Colo and AZ baseball. What a fucking ludicrous statement.
Let’s turn baseball into beer league softball. Fuck it. Move in the fences 20′ at every ballpark.
Dodgers also struck out 15 times yesterday when humidor didn’t matter. Grandal and Kike Hernandez had 3 each. Not to hex them but look at BA of their regulars:
Taylor.222
Seager .192
Puig .179
K Hernandez .188
Kemp .222
Forsythe .083
Bellinger .240
Wait until summer to gauge real impact of humidor in Dbacks. Though the place is indoors, I’ve been to a game there when it’s close to 100 at night, it’s still pretty warm inside that thing, and Phoenix has an elevation over 1000 feet, I think…
1,086 to be precise..
Agree with the stupid schedule comments. Not sure how much of the Giant’s schedule is related, but I do know that as part of the new collective bargaining agreement that teams get more off-days when they are home.
Forecast doesn’t look good for the game tomorrow. SF forecasted for 2”of rain tomorrow…pretty damned steady from 8 PM tonight through early Saturday morning. Hoping they get it in….fucking rainouts suck.
IF Friday got rained out, would SF-LA play 2 Sunday? It’s scheduled as day game 1:00 start. Would Dodgers beatch about playing later on getaway day? Saw story saying Roberts is going with Opie Sunday.
This weekend also starts stretch of 10 straight days without day off. Somewhere near middle SF will need another SP…
Screw LA, Giants gave a break to Seattle on that weird 4:15 start, LA can suck it…
LA is off Monday tho Giant aren’t They come back up here for 3 last weekend of the month so maybe potential rain out would be made up then.
Dodgers start a series at AZ the Monday after that weekend series in late April, so make it up then.
I haven’t even printed out a schedule yet…
I think I’ve mentioned before what a huge fan I am of magnet schedules. Those rock!
They’re not easy to get, though. 😦
Here is one. There are quite a few if you google it….
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAN-FRANCISCO-GIANTS-2018-MLB-BASEBALL-SCHEDULE-FRIDGE-MAGNET-/391938839639
Sergio Garcia – wow. Just wow. Unbelievable.
Pretty cool magnets!
I can hear Kruk now:I want one, I want one, I want one!!
Gabe Kapler booed during introductions at Phillies home opener, haha.
Ha that’s pretty funny.
Saw that Sixers are putting up statue of Dr J, very cool.
He had a great auto bio, quite interesting. Never knew he grew up in Hempstead (sp) Long Island. Moved around a lot of teams during chaotic ABA days before settling in with Philly.
Yeah, the Sixers unveiled the Dr. J statue a couple days ago at their practice facility in Camden, where they have other statues of their past greats. Man, I loved watching Dr. J play, one of my faves growing up even though I saw very, very little of his ABA days. Speaking of the Sixers, that team is red hot, and now that the Celtics will be without Kyrie Irving for the playoffs, Philly might be a real threat in the East.
They should use the ABA basketball in the all-star game.
A few of the shots it took Sergio to card a 13 at the 15th hole :
https://streamable.com/d3hz6
Unbelievable but true Sergio Garcia hit 5 golf balls in the water on #15.
Guess he wanted to reinact Kevin Costner in tin cup..
Looks like the only reason the defending champ will still be in Augusta on Sunday is to help put the green jacket on the winner.
The A’s have claimed Trayce Thompson off waivers from the Yanks, so now the brothers are in Oakland.
Incredible story, this Tony Finau. Dislocated his ankle celebrating a hole-in-one yesterday during the par-3 tourney. Sat down, snapped his ankle back into place himself. Playing today, 3 under par through 14. Amazing.
And now he’s tied for the lead!
I know. I posted the video here yesterday. Fuck him. I took him out of all my Draftkings line ups because even though I loved him I couldn’t envision a fucking guy dislocating his ankle the day before he was about to play in the fucking Masters and still be able to compete.
Actually have 4 or 5 teams making some noise in that but Finau would have taken me over the top.
hilarious. The guy I replaced Finau with was Kuch (they were close enough to the same price at DK). Both tied for 2nd. Even steven, indeed…..
I’ll probably never understand all the complexities of player transactions, like how Thompson gets claimed by the Yankees and then lost a few days later.
Even with Gorkys going yard yesterday and going 3-3, I’d still rather have Thompson.
Very similar stats, but Thompson with more pop (SLG/OPS). I know almost nothing of Thimpson’s glove/fielding ability.
The Yanks claimed him but he was still available to be claimed by other teams. He had to clear another round of waivers once claimed by the Yanks, I think.
Cruising the interwebs and found this. The seven degrees of major league baseball.
This is Ichiro Suzuki’s 27th season of professional baseball; he was 18 when he started his career for Orix in the Japanese Pacific League. One of his teammates that season was Carmelo Martinez, who was once a teammate of Fergie Jenkins. Jenkins played with Robin Roberts on the 1966 Cubs. Roberts played with Schoolboy Rowe, who pitched against Babe Ruth. In Ruth’s first major league game, he pitched against Nap Lajoie, who was born in 1874, two years before the National League was founded.
I don’t get what they’re trying to prove with this…
Any dope who was once a teammate of Carmelo Martinez takes you to the same place…
I don’t mean to make an issue out of it, but I would like to get my hands on the slimy little communist shit, twinkle toed cocksucker who thinks this is so fuckin’ brilliant…
At first, I thought it was speeding toward Ohtani–the brother of Ichiro’s teammate once fucked a geisha who then . . . . etc.
Bless you, Xoot…
lqtm…
And my aunt would be my uncle if she had balls….
Trout looks as bowlegged as one of my great uncles who rode horses for 50+ years…
over/under on number of days these 2 stay married is now set at 255. Place your bets
She’s got a fat ass that’ll only get fatter.
Book it. I’ve seen a few…
If this tool somehow gets an invite to an NFL camp this summer, that’s prime evidence for Kap that he’s on the collusion blacklist. I assume NFL GMs are smarter than that, but who knows?…
I take the under all the way…
Speaking of “cruising the interwebs” came across this earlier. Jane’s epic “Three Days” live at the Roxy back in 2010. Doesn’t come close to the sheer genius of the studio version, but the dancing girls on stage are pretty funny – especially @ the 4:45 mark – hilarious. And Navarro flat out shreds.
And the Giants won the World Series 4 months later…
Nice dig on the Rooster Loo!
I always liked the Rooster/Capon. He’s a good dude and knows his stuff.
But as long as he keeps up the annual disappearing act he’s gonna get some abuse here…
A few quick notes from yesterday’s game:
-Cueto topped 89 mph once on the stadium radar gun. If anyone on this staff can be effective at that velocity, it’s him, plus he’s had drop offs before. Still, not a great portend.
-In the span of 6 regular season games, Belt has seen a curveball from one wild lefty hit him in the head and a breaking ball from another go behind his head.
-Panik drew two walks. If he managed about 75 more for the season, he’d be an excellent leadoff hitter.
-The scoreboard still does not list a hitter’s OPS. I could get behind being different, rebelling against the tide etc., except in this case it’s just fucking backwards and stupid.
-The crab sandwiches seemed to contain less crab.
-Journey may really be dead at last.
How long has Gorkys been in organized pro ball? Years; how many I dunno.
It took him that long to figure out he should work out in an offseason to suddenly muscle up so he can hit some doubles and homers once in a while?….
I couldn’t trace his network to any early baseball legends, but surely there’s some connection to a particular twinkle toed, cocksucking, slimy little communist shit.
yeah, Simón Bolívar
Kapler notwithstanding, great time to be sports fan in philly. Eagles, Villanova, and as Mac said Sixers serving notice. Flyers much improved too.
Only saw Doc once with the Sixers team with Mo Cheeks and Andrew Toney, both like J the epitome of what you want at their positions.
Jane’s Addiction was a great but short lived band. There were several of those in the early ’90s. Too much fame too quickly was a problem for several bands.
The 1st episode of the new season of LEGION had a scene that played the first minute plus of Jane’s “I Would For You” from their 1st album (self-titled, live) – recorded way back in 1987. Blew me away.