Beam Me Up (2-0), Scotty…..
……Cleveland fans continue to weep about NBA officiating on Twitter. Bottom line: the Warriors are just much better. Their pussy fans need to suck it up and accept that…..
This is a pretty big series with Arizona. I’ve been hearing about how badly the D-Backs are under performing this year. Time to see it with my own eyes. They have good players on that team. I’m not confident, especially without Belt…..
Draft Day! I don’t really care who they draft as long as it isn’t the high school kid Cole Winn. Take one of the college players. We need help as soon as possible.
There’s been a fun game running on twitter lately: Without revealing your age, what’s one thing you remember that a young person wouldn’t understand?
There are obviously a ton of answers. The first one that came to me: a water bed.
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Rotary phone
couple things to keep eye on while Belt is out.
First, Pablo with more playing time. So far he’s a .700 OPS guy with not a lot of pop who has been OK from left side but terrible RH. Didn’t realize too this is contract year for him…what can he still do? So far in 90 ABs 2 bombs 5 doubles.
SF faces 2 LHPs this series so if Pablo sits, Posey goes to 1b and Hundley C. Hundley really isn’t more than a backup so if he’s in the LU more often does production go up or down. As for Posey, like J T Snow used to say playing 9 innings at 1b is NOT a day off.
More games as regular LF for Mac, who other than couple decent games in Denver hasn’t done much lately/no bombs. Noticed he looks away a lot and tries to drive ball to RF, good idea as long as he isn’t lunging and swinging at bad pitches.
And now that he’s back, what do Giants do with Hanson? gonna be tough to get stroke back if he’s gonna watch Panik and Craw every day.
Arrieta went off after the game, complaining kid SS Kingery screwed up by not getting anyone out on the ball Hanson hit and that the shifts employed by Phils aren’t working very well. Stats seem to back up what he said and the out might have been important but still. He gave up consecutive base hits to Panik and Posey before he hung breaking ball high and away for Cutch 3 run bomb that decided the game. Lotta twitter reaction from phils fans that aren’t happy either, with players or mgr.
That would have been a close play at 2nd, so no guarantee there. Beyond that, even if they get the out, it doesn’t end the inning. There was only one out at the time. Arrieta absolves himself for giving up 3 hits and the bomb after that play? What a fucking tool. I heard the interview after the game and thought, what a dick.
Then again, he got the only RBI in the whole series. So there’s that.
Telling the operator the number you want. (Only old guys get that one,)
Party lines.
Plugging watermelons at the grocery store.
Cavs have a lot tougher time slowing down GS with all the vets as opposed to Celts and their young team.
Celts have 4 guys who play a lot Rosier Tatum Brown Smart with combined 6 yrs experience.
GS with all their vets in there was very efficient with the ball and got lot of good shots. Cavs can’t allow them to score as much as they did; they don’t have firepower to win a game 110-120 points and generally play at slower pace.
And last night they did get good shooting games from Hill and Love…wasn’t near enough. I’d look for more physical inside game with big front line and trying to get Korver going a bit. J R and j Green played 50 minutes and totaled 11 points. See what Coach (?) Lue comes up with.
sifting the seeds out of your marijuana
Man I got to get back to CA more often. You guys and your legal weed stores have it so nice. I don’t always smoke weed but when I do, I prefer not to sift the fucking seeds.
that’s a good way to stay thirsty
LOL. Good one xoot.
Communicating with any sort of loved ones by writing letters that would arrive 3 days later and then you’d maybe get a letter back 3 days after that….
Flap discussion the other day was a classic, about the old black/white TVs with rabbit ears and tin foil and you had to get up to change the channel, of which there were supposedly 13 but only 3 actually came in….
What I thought was key was getting production from Livingston . And I love that they started Javale. He got so many easy looks early. I hoped they would give him more playing time as he did well vs James in game 1.
The bench has been iffy these last 2 series, so Shaun’s 10 points was pretty big. Tell ya one thing tho, our bench is going to look a whole lot different next year.
Livingston has been pretty much AWOL in the playoffs but for the first two games of the Finals. He definitely was a help in yesterday’s game. The real Finals was obviously the Rockets series. The Dubs just have trouble these days maintaining consistency. They usually start slowly, fire it up in Q3. Yesterday, they did pretty well in Q1, and Q3 was a wash, then Curry started connecting in Q4 after a lot of misses earlier….
Games..Skittle Bowl,Battling Tops,Hands Down.Then the toxic fume stuff Creepy Crawlers,&Mold Car plates my sister had forgot the name
Dialing Popcorn for the time!
3 flies up, kick the can, jailbreak, ollie ollie oxen free!!!
Kick the can.
The kids still play 3 flies up but it has a different name. I will have to ask my son what it’s called.
Learning to write in cursive, internet without ads, pay phones, fax machines. The list could be endless but judging from my daughter’s school work she’ll be telling the next generation how they used to write with pencils/pens on paper.
Man, I hated those fucking ink cartridge pens we had to use in catholic school.
I really like it when they stress getting to the rim early. A lot of teams come out guarding the arc against us.
LeBron commits an offensive foul every time he drives to the bucket. He pushes, bulls his body into the defender, uses his off hand to ward away the defender. Cavs fans whining about refs is laughable…
Same with Houston. Harden gets a brush foul 60′ from the basket and always acts like he’s taking a shot. Every drive by LeBron is like he was shot 25 times with an AK-47. Regardless of the contact.
What bothers me the most is it seems that 9-10 times the Warriors drive to the hoop, there’s never a foul. Curry gets pummeled nearly every drive, yet doesn’t get the calls. AI was the same way. 8-10 times the other way, no matter the team, we get called for a foul.
Brush fouls on layups are especially ridiculous. They called one on Looney that was maybe a two-fingered brush of James’ shoulder. Green gets a T on his attempted block of James, but neither Thompson’s near crippling by Hill or Love’s shot to Steph’s head were called for anything more than a foul.
Hey what was that deal with Steph&Perkins on the sideline? Other then Perkins could of moved his feet back more, guess he was trying to fuck with Curry hoping he would twist his ankle again, don’t blame Curry for being hot on that since he was vulnerable..
I looked at that and Perkins stuck his leg out as Steph was going by the bench. I loved how Draymond came charging down to help.
https://247sports.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/Article/Golden-State-Warriors-disturbed-by-Kendrick-Perkins-tripping-Stephen-Curry-118762593
Thanks Chuck,
Yeah Perkins feet was almost inbounds compared to any other player on their bench, what a pussy, guess since they won’t even activate his sorry ass it’s his only way to intimidate..
Some are now saying the Tigers are leaning toward catcher Bart in the draft. That would leave the pitcher Mize for the Giants.
None of the pundits really know, of course.
“ESPN baseball guru Keith Law has the Tigers taking Georgia Tech catcher Joey Bart with the top pick in his final mock draft, and one rival scout also predicted Bart to the Tigers in a conversation with the Free Press late Sunday night.”
I idea of the Giants picking Bart had grown on me. I saw some video of him on the MLB Network.
I’d take that catcher Joey Bart at #2 if the Giants are smart.They have no other longterm solution at catcher after Posey slides over to 1st. And yes just the PR work is great to for Baer: Riding the BART train to another win” yada yada
Blue chip stamps you got at the grocery store.Fill up a booklet( several for the big items)and go to a redemption center for cool prizes…
Seems like Maze or Singer could get to MLB the quickest and either would be a good pick for the club.
If Rodriguez can be consistently decent, and Stratton and Suarez can continue to show some growth; then combine that with Bum coming back, and Holland having a decent game once in a while, then the starting rotation is almost worth memorizing. 🙂
Smarj, to me, is a complete afterthought. He’ll be back, and in the usual Giants way he’ll be in the rotation because of the big contract, instead of Sac where he belongs.
Cueto, who knows?
Blach, a long reliever, and spot starter vs. the Dodgers.
I was surprised by Rodriguez’ success yesterday. He seemed to be effectively wild but its hard to see him staying when Bumgarner, Samardzija, Cueto and Belt return to the active roster. Some combination of Rodriguez, Gearrin, Johnson, Suarez, Stratton & Blach will have to give. Maybe the club makes an early trade.
Samarj may come up with the dreaded oblique strain or some shit. If he comes back shitty, they’d better not keep running him out there.
Smarj had a solid 2011 pitching 75 games in relief for the Cubs…
I’d like to see him pitch 75 more. For the Cubs.
If I am waiting for a poker table or the table limits are too high, I actually enjoy playing the slots. But these new machines are a joke. Their all themed after television shows and movies and it’s impossible understand what you need to hit to win. Plus penny machines have suddenly taken over the casino floor. Yet the max bet on most penny machines is about the same as a $5 machine. So what’s the point?
Plus I really miss the noise of the coins coming out of the machine. Now they make a fake noise that just isn’t the same.
I was surprised by Rodriguez, too, Dirt. Saw him pitch while in Scottsdale this year, and was not impressed (he was raw and wild). Goes to show you shouldn’t formulate an opinion on one outing.
Time to make hay against the fucking snakes…
Big Country takes the Hill tomorrow….should be fun.
What are the odds that Booby delivers the club’s pick envelope?
Got the Ace going tonight so let’s see how things go. Got to keep them down for one more series. Although (un)Godly shout us out his last time against us. Goldy and Godly? Fuck ’em both.
1. Joe Panik (L) 2B
2. Buster Posey (R) C
3. Andrew McCutchen (R) RF
4. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Pablo Sandoval (S) 1B
7. Hunter Pence (R) LF
8. Gorkys Hernandez (R) CF
9. Derek Holland (S) P
Pence 4 for 7 with 2 bombs against Godley so he’s right back in there.
on April 10th he went 0-3 against him with a K. I think it’s safe to retire the bvp numbers with Hunter.
If you buy into these numbers, Crawford should never hit higher than 5th in the order:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=crawfbr01&year=Career&t=b#lineu::none
Dwight Clark has passed away from ALS.
So sad to hear, he was such a tremendous man.Never will anyone forget “The Catch” and what you have contributed for the 49ers!!
RIP Dwight 87 and deepest condolences to your family..
Very sad news. I have a poster of The Catch photo. That catch always remains the pivotal moment of the beginning of that dynasty.
He was a tight-end sized wide receiver. Sort of an earlier version of Gronk. Clark was a terrific player.
Walsh used to tell the story that he went to see a college QB do a workout, and the QB asked Clark to catch passes for him. Walsh was so impressed with Clark that day he drafted him, and the rest is football history.
Man, at least he didn’t have to suffer too long. I had no idea he would pass this quickly after his diagnosis.
Tigers take Mize.
Giants take Bart!
6’3,” 225 pound, power-hitting catcher.
MLB Network is saying his defensive abilities are good, too.
I like your headline better. Simple, double entendre, nice!
🙂
BART has arrived!
very happy with Bart. I go back to my mantra, if we can’t pay good hitters to come to AT&T then draft their asses and force them here…..
Dwight Clark died? Ugh. That’s terrible. I know he was declining in health but man, that one hurts.
You can post your condolences in his wife’s Twitter thread:
Flav, agree with you that Pence is done but with Belt out Operation Dick Around will be deployed in LF for the next 3 weeks.
Great pick!
Congrats to Joey Bay Area Transit BART to the Giants!!
Tonight’s Yankees-Tigers game is a makeup from Jackie Robinson Day, so all players are wearing #42.
I’m sure it’s not so they can auction off the jerseys that they had made up in April as “game used”…
Blue and red 3D glasses that give you a headache in 5 minutes.
Booting a computer with a floppy disk
Using a phone line and a modem for dial up to a BBS
Making it home on time to tune into NBC at 8:00 on Tuesday night to see the A-Team (or Star Trek to keep the theme of the blog post)
excellent ones, Pappy
I thought about those long and hard. I did not take that challenge lightly.
Randomly going outside to play with your friends…
Caps up 3-0 on L.V. after one…
hockey still?
Yup, and then they report to training camp in a few weeks for next season…
A’s drafted a guy who is going to play his final season of college football before fully committing to baseball. That’s an usual situation.
Yeah lots of talk about that on the college football blogs I follow. He was not expected to go that high, so you have to think Beane is going to force his hand to take Top 10 money to get him to quit football. If not, that’s an epic risk on the part of the A’s.
He is expected to be OU’s starting QB if he stays this fall.
Brady Singer dropped to #18 for some reason. KC picked him.
The catcher Bart is the guy I would have picked.
If he quickly turns into the real deal like a new Buster, that presents all sorts of possible moves…
I was looking at Posey’s history.
Drafted in 2008, he spent about 1.5 seasons in the minors, around 720 ABs, before being brought up to stay in May 2010. For some reason, I thought he came up faster than that. Maybe because he came up for a cup of coffee in the expanded roster in 2009…
I remember seeing Buster Posey play in San Jose, during his 2009 stint there and I was struck by how (relatively) small he was. As snarkk and Willie recall when we visited San Jose a few years ago, there isn’t a bad seat in the house and I was sitting almost against the back stop when Buster played. He certainly wasn’t 6’1″, which I believe most baseball sites had him listed as. Conversely, Bart is supposed to be 6’3″ and 225lbs, easily 15 lbs heavier than Buster.
I think this dude will bring some heavy lumber when he makes our roster. At least, I hope so.
I am shocked about Dwight Clark’s death. Like Wilco, I didn’t think his illness had progressed that far/fast. This disease is horrible. RIP Dwight – you’re going to be missed by all 49er/football fans.
MLB Network’s Dan O’Dowd likes Joey Bart. He said this before the draft:
“Joey Bart, the catcher at Georgia Tech, for me, is the most impactful player in this year’s draft. When I said “impactful,” I didn’t say the most talented player — though I do think he might be the most talented, too. Catching, for me, is the most important position on the field. It’s the only position that’s involved in every single play, from the defensive standpoint, night-in and night-out. If you find an elite catcher that has sustainable potential long-term health, that brings elite tools and athleticism to the position, you start with the basis of a competitive advantage. To me, if I was starting from scratch, that’s where I would start. This kid, for me, he’s got the perfect size, he’s got exceptional athleticism, he’s got great hands behind the plate, he’s an exceptional blocker, he’s got 70 arm strength, so he literally shuts down the running game. And he’s been calling his own game at the collegiate level since he showed up on the campus of Georgia Tech. So that means he processes thought quickly, he’s a creative thinker, he’s a problem-solver and he does it all in a matter of split seconds. And, oh by the way, he’s got plus power, and though there are some swings and misses, I believe he’ll tighten that up in pro ball. I think he’ll make enough contact to be an offensive star. He reminds me of the type of impact Buster Posey had with the Giants. I’m not saying he’s a perfect comp to Posey because Posey has the natural hit feel that this guy doesn’t, but this guy has things that Buster didn’t. He’s got better power, better pure arm strength. He’s got, to me, as good athleticism, behind the plate. I believe in my heart he’s got that kind of chance to impact whatever organization he goes to.”
Dwight Clark’s passing makes me sad and pisses me off, that this disease took him. He’s just a little older than I. I heard Kevin the Rat on KCBS say that “the Catch” in his opinion was the single most important and memorable sports “moment” in Bay Area sports history (paraphrasing). I’m pretty much in agreement. To me the Giants 2010 WS win was the most satisfying and enjoyable experience as a sports fan, but the Catch most assuredly as a single event, signaled the end of a long time drought for the Niners. And, was the signature moment that started a 15 year dynasty of excellence that will never be equaled in the NFL. RIP to Dwight Clark…
Very sorry to hear about Dwight Clark. No doubt The Catch is one of the greatest plays in NFL history. I also got to his restaurant in the late 80s, I think it was in Redwood City?
Clark’s by the Bay
Yes, that was it.
Strikes out the side. That my ace….
Jeebus, Holland looked like Warren Spahn in that first inning. The Snakes looked overmatched.
Those uniforms are ugly. I know they have another version that looks like they’ve been wiped in soot or something (Loo’s commented on it). These uniforms are not an improvement (albeit, better than those Friar uniforms and rainbow Astro ones from 20-30 years ago – which I consider the worst in MLB history).
I really thought Boehm was the must pick today because he seemed the closest to MLB and he had the chance to move over to 1b if his defensive skills are not mlb ready.
Not being able to see Rodriguez pitch, does he seem to have legit potential as a starter? I like what I have seen of Suarez.
“Man, I hated those fucking ink cartridge pens we had to use in catholic school.”
Fountain pens, though most people don’t use the cartridges any more. That’s too funny, Chuck, because they’re one of my favorite hobbies these days and are experiencing quite the renaissance all over. They’re very smooth writing and the variety of ink colors available is mind boggling. Coupled with great paper, they’re a lot of fun. Very much old school. A lot of us are railing against the perceived demise of penmanship. Many schools have all but done away with it.
If you’re into journaling and things like that, they are very satisfying to use and beautiful to boot.
Isn’t Bart supposed to be one of the stud players in this draft, with the bat and the mitt?
Yes.
Eddie D was at his fucking bedside? Are you kidding me? Man, I love Eddie D. King of owners, every single motherfucking last one of them.
Craig, sometime earlier this year or late last year, Eddie arranged for Dwight and his family to move near his Whitefish, Montana home where Eddie lives. Apparently, Eddie paid for everything. They were very close or as Eddie described him, his “little brother.”
Joey Bart:
https://www.mlb.com/giants/video/giants-draft-c-bart-no-2/c-2118661483
I’ll be at the game Wednesday. Sort of bummed to miss the club ace tonight and their #2 tomorrow.
I’m planning on being at Wednesday’s game, too. My first of the season.
Thanks snarkk. He looks like a good one.
2nd pick He’s six foot ELEVEN
from SB Nation on that Minnesota kid, by way of U of Kentucky:
“Hjelle is up to 6-11 and has gained some strength since high school, coming in now at a reported 225 pounds, though there’s still not a lot of obvious meat on his bones. Despite his great height he repeats his mechanics consistently and is unusually well-coordinated for such a tall pitcher, resulting in above-average command.
“His fastball has gained four to six MPH since high school, consistently at 91-93 now with reported peaks at 95-96. He’s refined a high school slurve into a plus curveball. He has an average change-up and when all three pitches are working his combination of size, stuff, and command seems unfair . . . .”
How soon can he be ready?
Talk about a back-handed compliment. “Love the pick, but he’s more of a back of the rotation guy.” Let’s see if he doesn’t end up better than that.
Miller is just ASKING for Goldy to hit a bomb.
Hard to explain, but I like seeing Pence in right. Love his goofy throws, his unorthodox swing and his all out attitude and style of play. This is probably his swan song, but for a game or two of him flailing away out there, I could care less. It’s not like we have “all world” outfielders anyway.
I mean left.
Jeeeeebus. There goes the pitch count.
Flav, Eddie D lives right next door to Clark’s family in Montana. This totally sucks. His moment is one of the single greatest moments in all of sports.
What’s crazy is the players of that era you would see all over the place.
Fuck. One hitter too late.
Frickin’ laser to left. Holland is spent.
heat up their brutha.
Cutch getting dialed in on the bombs.
and one for the new clean up hitter.
Cutch & Craw back-to-back!
wow! back to back jjacks.
Didn’t take long to tie it right back up!
Find those leftfield bleachers!
Right handed Big Unit?
Quiz – Back to back to back – who were our 3 hitters? Clue – it occured on April 4th 2016
Wow, Pence’s stance is completely different.,
Posey, Belt, Crawford
Oops. Replied in wrong spot.
Not correct Zum
Any of them correct?
Posey is correct Zum
Joey Bart looks good. For some reason, all I can think of is Joey Bats, which would also be a great baseball name. But WTF is Joey Bats? Some small time hood from a TV show or movie I recently saw? Am I losing my mind that I can’t place that name?….. What a drag it is getting old….
Jose Bautista’s nickname.
That’s Jose Bautista’s nickname.
This new Pence stance is going to take some getting used to. I miss the old meth head look he had before.
Agree. I give the guy credit though for going down to the minors for that long without complaint and now trying something new to become a contributor again.
With ya Chuck,
Use to see all the players in Redwood City at their practice field, then up at Canyon Inn Burger&Belt place where most of them went after practice ,Clark,Montana,Cross,Solomon I met their once..