I got 99 Problems And These 5 Guys Are 5 of Them
The Houston series went pretty much how we thought it would go. I had hoped they’d take the first one but losing both was hardly a surprise. For *fun* I checked the collective ERA of our 5 Fives and was secretly hoping it would zero out exactly at 5.00. It didn’t. 5.22. The question is whether they could whittle that down to an even 5 by the end of this roadie and I think I’d take the “hell no” on that bet. But who knows? Anyone see these five fellows whacking their number down to 5.00?
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There are so many ads on the mobile version of the Flap that I can’t tell. Did you post the pic of the Five Guys burgers or is that a perfectly placed ad?
lol, no i did that. I’m on a quest to connect everything *five* to these 5
New cap logo?
Smarge walking 5 guys was balanced genius
Good burgers.
But lousy fries.
I never figured out how to order there or at Subway…
If I catch your drift, 5 Guys does make it a little complex. Just give me the fucking burger. LOL
Ah Cubs scored 1 run in 2 days at Wrigley. some guy named Adam Plutko of Tribe no hit them for 6 innings of 1-0 W. Giants are still only 2 out.
Watched some of Casilla again last night. Brought in top 9 in 1 run game he almost hits a guy with first pitch and then gives up single 4 pitch walk and then after a fly out another walk to load bases. Then gets come backer and starts 1-2-3 DP to end inning after 24 pitches. Guy is never boring.
San Francisco Giants who have worn #5:
Hobie Landrith
Tom Haller
John Stephenson
Fran Healy
Wallace Johnson
John Rabb
Darryl Hamilton
Tsuyoshi Shinjo
Ray Durham
Travis Ishikawa
Juan Uribe
Pat Burrell
Ryan Theriot
Matt Duffy
Nick Hundley
Great list and mostly players I like very much. Shaking my head that I forgot who Hobie Landrith was (and should have known). He caught Juan Marichal’s 1st game in the big leagues, where he almost pitched a no hitter. He also had a great battle with Haller for playing time in 1961, along with John Orsino. Moreover, Landrith played 3 years with the Giants ($80k salary in 1961. A lot of mullah back in the day) . . .
By the by, I challenge anyone to find a Wiki biography longer than his versus any 2nd and 3rd string player . . . and MOST 1st string players. Unbelievably, long, and interesting/thorough bio of him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie_Landrith
Blade: Where are you seeing $80k for Landrith in 1961? That’s gotta be a typo…
Ok, I see it in the Wiki article, but refuse to believe it…
Yeah, especially when you consider that it was a big deal when Mays and Mantle got $100k (which I don’t think either got until the mid-60s, right?).
Interesting that Haller and Landrith both had number 5 . . . Haller must have gotten the number after Landrith was traded.
Who is this Giant festering in the minors?
6 for 17 in 5 games (.353 BA), 2 bombs, .400 OBP, .882 SLG, and 1.282 OPS.
Meanwhile, bonehead Bochy said this in response to this player being promoted . . .
“It’s a possibility, sure,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “When you look how much he’s playing and how he’s doing, I think it is a possibility”
Could that some-oooone… be Mac the Oaf?
Bingo!
Hey, easy now, let’s not jinx his pending return. The man is as graceful as a prima ballerina. Repeat that 10 times to make it so.
fortunately he also said of Pence and his new swing, “…he needs a few more at bats with this.”
As for the real song Mack the Knife that Loo quotes from famous Darin version, Sonny Rollins did a great version on his famous recording Saxophone Colussus that has St. Thomas on it. Here it is titled “Moritat.”
Seriously, sometimes I wonder WTF the Giants management is thinking, and if they really have winning as their #1 priority. If there is not some physical reason, a roster management reason, at least some plausible reason for Mac not being called up immediately, then it just makes no sense to me. These days, anybody can be DLed for 10 days, they could DL Blanco for a hangnail and bring him up to get him going. Maybe I missed the reason explained somewhere in the media…
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I guess he’s insinuating that he is boycotting the NFL?
yeah, somehow I overlooked the word “sunday” in his tweet. Dumb. So I erased it.
Personally Mac the Oaf doesn’t do much for me. We have already seen what he can do. As far as the AAA numbers go? Pffft! How many times have we seen that from our white honkys. Even as great as the Astros farm system has been they have a bunch of white honkys who murder AAA pitching but don’t do shit up here. Derek Fisher, JD Davis and Tyler White to name three. I personally don’t want to see the Giants draft any white honky “power hitters” in this years draft.
Agree overall Joe. The only thing I want to know is if it was a mirage when he was playing earlier this season and was raking (3 bombs too). I want to know once and for all if that LA swing coach did some magical juju on his swing. Let’s get him up here and decide if he’s for real or just one of the Bowker gang misfits.
nice column from K Cunningham on Giants prospects struggles over at MCC. top of list for fails so far is Beede, who has ERA of 5.31. Also takes some digs at Duggar, who is hitting .244 with 20 BBs/54 Ks in 164 ABs in hitter friendly PCL. Notes Duggar hasn’t played much at higher levels (75 games combined at AA and AAA), and breaking stuff giving him lot of trouble.
Let this guy play every day in Sac and see how his hitting improves is still my take. D is fine but Giants are going to need more hitters as long the 5/5s are on the hill.
Oh and he did say Slater is being moved around a lot, playing CF and some 2b.
Slater’s another one who isn’t happy unless he’s on a stretcher…
Speaking of lousy fries 🍟 my daughter sometimes doesn’t finish them but will reheat the rest later.
“That’s like taking a shower then putting your same dirty clothes back on!!”
That’s some hardcore fry eating there.
Loo, I think you’re right about Landrith’s salary of $80k . . .I just checked Mays salary for the same year (1961) and he made $85 thousand. Consequently, I have to conclude that either: A. Mays got cornpoled by Stoneham; B. Landrith and/or his agent were brilliant negotiators; or C. The Wiki bio is a typo (as you indicated).
Gotta go with “C”, Blade $80k was top dollar in ’61…
The key to ordering at Subway is to tell them what you want, but then watch closely as they make the sandwich and nicely correct them on any mistakes they are about to make. Watch that sandwich all the way through the process. There’s a Subway on the walk to AT&T Park, and I usually stop there to get something instead of buying at the ballpark.
Agree about how to order the Subway sandwich and also, going to the Subway adjacent to the train station. You also might want to try the sandwiches at the Safeway. Delicious, except for the ungodly wait times. Regardless, both are inexpensive, delicious alternatives to the crap inside the ball park.
Yeah, not a “grilled” sandwich person either – usually the 3rd thing the Subway employee asks you after what sandwich and type of bread you want.
Thanks, Zum. I think my problem is that there are so many toppings and stuff, that I can’t figure out what’s gonna work. What do you normally get there?
You don’t know what you like on a sandwich yet? How old are you, Loo? LOL For me, usually, lettuce, tomato, onion, olives, pickles and peperonchino’s does the trick. Mayo, mustard, some pepper. Don’t need added salt with all the cured deli meats. Oil and vinegar if you’re really feeling froggy.
Loo is a vampire. He’s close to 700 years old. He’s like the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer—very frightened and confused by modern sensibilities.
(I tell them put everything but onions and jalapenos on there)
You really do know me, SanDog. On my way soon for this season’s first visit to the Coney Island bar where we hung out almost 2 years ago. It feels like San Diego here today…
I’ll never forget being at a sandwich place in SF where the people working there were all Norwegians or Swedish. A family-owned place, I’m assuming. I ordered the sandwich, and then they (I think) asked me if I wanted it grilled, which I never want to happen for my sandwich, so I said “no.” But I could tell we weren’t on the same wave-length. So I tried real hard to let them know that I didn’t want it grilled. I could have sworn we were finally on the same page. I went and sat down, and then they brought the sandwich out to me, grilled. I just sighed and ate the sandwich. I’m not a “send it back” type of person. I just chalked it up to experience.
Should of gotten the pickled herring zum!
Lulz!
Lutefisk on rye!
I give Williamson a lot of credit for taking some initiative and rebuilding his swing and his improvement shouldn’t be overlooked. All you ever heard about Parker’s off season was which tropical location he visited and it wasn’t to play winter ball. If a guy like Duvall can turn the corner at 27 and be a replacement level player there’s no reason Williamson can’t follow suit. That doesn’t mean he’s an all star but he’s better than any of the options the Giants can roll out there. It’s a big if for the Oaf to stay on the field but I’d put him as slightly better or equal to Duvall and obviously bringing more power than Pence at this point.
It’s beyond bizarre that the club doesn’t bring him up. I’m sure he could overrun and completely whiff on a routine fly ball just as well as McCutchen – seriously, WTF was that yesterday? Dude’s defense leaves a lot to be desired.
I stopped eating Subway sandos years ago when I realized they sucked.
They certainly aren’t the best, but a sight better than your average fast food if you want to keep things semi light. Good sandwich shops are hard to find. Can’t beat some of the Jewish deli’s in the L.A. area. Art’s in Studio City is killer.
Right on.
It has to be because of Pence that Mac is being held down, for now at least. They’re paying the dude big bucks so he’s going to play. Let’s hope he’s better than the first time around.
Maybe subway will come out with a 5 fives sandwich will suck as well..
“Move over Big Mac. Step aside Whopper. There is a new king of burgers in town for the largest of appetites and it comes from Chili’s.
Aptly dubbed “The Boss,” the new burger filled with not one, not two, but five stacks of meat.
It’s a cardiologist’s worst nightmare.
Stuffed with bacon, sausage, pulled rib meat, brisket and a half-pound beef patty – not to mention cheddar cheese, ranch and barbeque sauce and the usual lettuce and tomato – The Boss clocks in at a hefty 1,650 calories and measures almost half a foot in height. As burgers go, the price is big too: 14.49 to $14.99, depending on the location.”
It required a Kerouacian scroll to fit the Giants rotation on this list, but there they are at 539, just ahead of the Reds 2016 starting five.
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/264743388/best-starting-pitcher-rotations-mlb-2000s
At a Subway’s or other sandwich place, I only want mustard, no mayo. The quickest way to ruin a lunch-meat sandwich for me is for someone to put mayo on it. I can take mayo on a tuna or chicken salad type of sandwich, but that’s it. At Subway’s they have honey mustard, so I always order that as the only condiment. The breads I’ll vary just for variety’s sake. I want everything they have on the sandwich, except…..no olives and no hot peppers. Olives are a mystery to me. A lot of people like them, but I can’t stand them. I’ve spent a lifetime picking olives out of things, like pizzas and salads. As for hot peppers, I’m just really wimpy on peppers in general. I buy the mild salsa in the grocery store. I bought the medium salsa at Costco once, and it seemed pretty darn hot to me.
No mustard on sandwiches, unless you consider hot dogs to be sandwiches. It’s OK for ham & Swiss or pastrami on rye, or on Strickland’s fastball.
There’s a privately-owned sandwich shop in my local area that’s very popular. Good sandwiches, but also people get a kick out of supporting an independent, family-owned business. All the sandwiches have names, like Jake or Justin or Sally. So, Justin might be a turkey sandwich of some kind. You take a 3 by 5 card from the counter and you write the name of the sandwich, and any special modifications, and write your first name at the bottom of the card and hand the card to one of the people behind the counter. They serve a lot of people but they actually move really quickly. The place has interior seating, but also has kind of a funky-cool backyard with some tables and lots of plants.
The rest of the division is stumbling as the Dodgers are finally getting some momentum together. The Dodgers could end up just being a blue blur passing everybody. The division had a chance to bury them pretty deeply early, but that didn’t happen, and now the Dodgers are probably feeling like they can put together a nice run and run away with it again. The last few years they’ve been able to put together a ferocious streak at some point, like going 40-10 or something. There has to be a mental aspect to it, too. Teams start to get intimidated and just fall apart against them. The other night, the Rockies had a lead in the 6th inning, and the reliever threw the worst pitch I’ve seen all season from anybody. A hanging cement-mixer that went across the middle of the plate, waste-high. The Dodger hit it for a 2-run HR, and the Rockies were never the same in that series after that. They just folded up their tent.
I’m fine with mayo as long as it isn’t too much and is accompanied by a tomato…
you have to have mayonnaise on a BLT
There is nothing better than a BLT with Oscar Meyer bacon (none of that applewood smoked shit), iceberg lettuce (don’t even think about using Romaine) and most importantly back of your yard fresh tomatoes on white bread (slightly toasted) with Hellmans Mayo (Best Foods if your west of the Rockies) and a little salt and pepper on a hot summer day. Hell if the tomatoes are really good, you can even hold the B and the L.
Damn, Joe, that sounds really good. Nice powers of description.
BLT’s rock. And yes to the mayo. Like Loo, not too much, just enough to taste good and hold things together.
Heck, with tomatoes on the vine and getting close to harvest, it’s almost the perfect time for a BLT. What about bread? What’s your favorite bread for these?
That’s some funny shit about Loo, Sandog. I’ll never read his posts the same way again.
Pavlovic says mto is enough route to Chicago
En route
i.e., MtO has been activated!
Agree on easy Mayo on a BLT and I rarely use it any other time. Like Zum, not at all on a cold cut sandwich.
Sourdough for me for a BLT. Sourdough is the only type of bread I stock at my place.
There’s another kind?
At subway it’s the Italian herb&cheese bread or just the Italian bread , they work the best for me especially with the Italian meat sandwiches or the spicy Italian, I go for the oil& vinegar, don’t slop mayo on these bad boys..
Exactly my choice AK. Regarding Flav hating Subway . . . IMO there are degrees of dislike or like. “Sucks” isn’t what I would use to describe Subway, especially if we’re talking about all fast food joints. In fact, the last time I even had a McDonalds, Wendys, Jack In The Box, Taco Bell, etc., fast food experience was in 2014. I think it was when I was more or less “trapped” with my friend, Jeremy, while we went cross country to a few Western States and into Canada for a couple of weeks. He was driving, so I really had no choice regarding these visits (usually mid night type runs after hitting a few bars). I actually ate at one of these places late at night (Jack in the Box I think) and the frickin’ food must have took a couple of days to completely digest. it was that bad. Similar experience at Taco Bell. I can at least tolerate McDonalds (like the fries). All of this shit is fat food. If you want to be fat, go for it. Empy, bad calories for the most part.
Basically, I will hit a Subway or Chipolte once in a blue moon. Otherwise, forget it.
thick-cut dry-cured bacon cooked in the oven just crisp, never crumbly but never soft either. Put those sticks upright in a large jar, so they look like many old long boards leaning together in a corner. Slice beefsteak tomatoes from the vines on the patio; wash and dry fresh romaine leaves. Put it all on the table with a toaster and three different loaves of bread. Everyone can cut and toast their own bread, spread on real mayo to taste, add the fixings, sprinkle coarse salt and pepper, and then select from the jar as many sticks of bacon as they desire. I like to have a shot of Maker’s with one rock to complement mine.
These no on prop E radio commercials are the funniest fucking comedy around. According to them, banning menthol cigs will result in a city wide revolt that will end with anarchy.
we’ll see video of clandestine addicts in the underground BART stations huffing those contraband Kools
Tobacco industry funded. Yeah, certainly those ads are entirely true…
Off the top of my head, perhaps the best sandwich I ever ate was at a deli in the back of a small indendent market. A place I haven’t been in decades, and may not even exist anymore. It was a smoked turkey, with smoked cheese of some kind, and lettuce, tomato, and onion, on a roll. It was pretty big, and the price was nice. And not skimpy on the meat and cheese at all. Those kinds of places exist less and less these days. It’s hard for an independent market to survive these days.
Enjoyed the sandwich sharing, good ideas too
Don’t feel good at all about this game tonight. No Iggy still and Klay is hobbled. Feels like San Dawg gonna be dancing on our graves soon…..
Maruccis in Walnut Creek is hands down the best sandwich shop in all the land. Their tri tip Sandoval is insanely good.
Heh. Sando.
Rays are going to continue to start relievers. This is so stupid unless they would do the same thing in the post season (should they ever get there). Can you imagine doing that in post season games? And when the 8th inning comes, who’s the guy?
The theory is it saves the regular starting pitcher one trip through the top of the opponent’s batting order, and (in theory) helps the regular starter get off to a good start.
There’s not much data yet to back any of this up, though.
i know what the theory is but there is no fucking way they do this gimmick in the post season. So why do it now?
What if the starter gives up a bunch in the first inning?
You bring in your warmed up ace in the second down 4-0?
Dubs– too much dribbling…
The current NBA: a 2 on 1 fast break leads to a 3 point shot attempt. I just can’t fathom that. A well-executed 2 on 1 is a beautiful thing in basketball, but you hardly ever see it anymore.
Dubs playing like crap, hanging around though…
Looney or Steph guarding Harden = no bueno…
Dang this is an ugly basketball game. Rockets style of dribbling for 18 seconds then making a move is really gross…
Dubs have absolutely no flow to their O
Dubs are playing the way Houston loses. They are soooooo lucky to be tied and Paul/Harden are coming up small. They NEED to get Thompson involved.
If someone should be getting in people’s faces, it’s Klay.
What are the best uses for ciabatta bread?
I’d go ham and Swiss cheese sandwich.
A BLT on a ciabatta doesn’t suck at all and I like ’em as hamburger buns too.
that shimmy in Steph’s face was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Well played Chris Paul
Curry’s become very easy to dislike…
And that’s unfortunate, because he’s nice guy at heart, imo. He’s taking on the persona of a diva anymore.
The NBA really allows guys driving to the basket to shove off with their off hand. Harden especially does it a lot.
Agree.
As John Madden sometimes said: I can’t tell if this is good defense or bad offense.
Steph laughing at this shows what a cool dude he is.
You are way off DJ. Paul is a cheap shotting punk. Curry plays with class. He may laugh and bave fun but he doesn’t dive on people’s knees and take cheap shots.
I wasn’t comparing them, Chuck, but you watch them regularly – I hardly watch the NBA anymore, so I believe you…
The last time i watched Curry play, he fired his saliva-drenched mouthpiece into the crowd.
Seemed like a prick move to me.
No, it’s classy!
This is ridiculous. Every drive by Harden is a foul. How do you defend the refs? I guess he can’t be defended in the paint.
The only thing to do is overplay him and deny him the ball…
Like the chick in the short shorts…
24 sec violation? Wow
Each team . . . hilarious.
thompson is being wasted out there.
Watch out for refs here making a move…
my god the sloppiness. who are these guys?
The reffing is awful. There was no pass on the rebound apparently. Fuck. Draymond with the derp.
Dribble much Green?
Ballgame. Unreal. Oh well. We will win game 6. Stupid.
crazy. Can’t win em all. This feels over.
Dubs are drubs at crunch time. They should have won this game, they played good D, Houston did not shoot well…
For back to back playoff games I say WHAT THE FUCK!!!
lol. Shit.
Why did Steph pass Draymond the ball. He clearly wasn’t ready for it, there’s no way they called that out of the time out (with Draymond immediately kicking it back to Steph. Stupid pass with 3 seconds left. Seriously, why give Draymond the ball with 3 seconds left???????
I say why the fuck did they not wait to take a final shot with a couple seconds left instead of Curry taking a bank shot with 2 people in his face. If they score Houston is down just one with 10 seconds left. I have no doubt they score…and Quinn Cook 0-3 for 3 huge shots in critical moments…
cook nervously catching that ball…man, you knew that shot wasn’t going in. He was TOO wide open
Draymond could have come to a jump stop and pulled up for a shot instead of the kick to Cook. Really really crap basketball…
But, hey, Mac is called up to Chicago !
‘Bout time.
Leave him in all weekend, I want to see 12 ABs, swing for those Cubbie fences…
If there’s poison ivy anywhere on those walls MTO will land in it…
This isn’t over yet. I’ll be shocked if the Warriors don’t stomp on the Rockets in Game 6.
Guarantee that Rockets wont show up for game 6…all down to game 7. Cp3 wont likely play game 6 as well…
Our stars are NOT clutch. Dubs are a great team, but can anyone remember the last time they won a close game? I mean someone hit a shot at the buzzer or won when we were down with less than a minute to go? We win blow outs but I’ve been racking my brain, at least in the playoffs, it never happens..
@ Craig..exactly what I was thinking. Per my above comment..No way does Paul, Harden, James, etc pass that ball with so little time left. EVER
I’m curious about the severity of Paul’s injury. Looked like a hamstring the way he grabbed the back of his leg.
Look a that last play. Curry passed to Draymond ahead, Draymond was supposed to take it towards the top of the key and then dump back to either Steph trailing for the 3 or over into the corner to Klay for the 3, but he botched it. That was the design…
Calling the Warriors unclutch is pretty funny. They’ve won plenty of tight games. The pisser was on the play that Cook took the shot it was a 5 on 4 with Paul hurt. They should have worked it down low, or done more that have Cook try to hit a 3. They just played a shitty game they should have lost by 20. Klay should get more touches. He can get you 20 points in a quarter. The problem is when KD gets the ball there’s no way for Klay to get a pas his way. The Dubs played Houston’s losing strategy in game 1. Too much iso. KD was 8-22, Klay was 8-14.
Houston isn’t this good defensively but we are making them look great. They REALLY miss Iggy’s defense. And the turnovers. The pass to Harden was spectacularly idiotic. It’s like we are tired and slow. We got outworked in the 4th again. And Livingston might as well pack his bag. He’s done little lately. We are getting nothing from the bench.
I’m sure we’ll win game 6. I’m just curious to see how the refs call it. Today was yet again every Harden drive was a foul and no penetration by Curry or KD was called.
fucking Harden was 5-21 . . .and we lost.
Are you serious, dude? Harden has disappeared in more big games than anyone in the league.