Racking Up The Wins
EXTREMELY stoked that we get an opportunity to shitcan the Marlins so quickly. I doubt we blow them out tonight but, my flapping friends, a *Suarez Shut Down* game is on the horizon.
The Giants have played the most road games this year of any team in mlb. Any time SF wants to stop spinning its wheels and get fat and happy at home, they are free to start that ASAP….
I never liked Phil Mickleson. He was Denny’s favorite golfer, lulz. This weekend he exposed himself as the fraud I knew him to be. That was *muni golf* bullshit. I am loving watching him go down in the eye of the public….
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Great point. And also: Had “Stratty” and his wife had that baby in the off season, say in December, he’d have a good chance at 20 wins this year. LOL?
djloo27 said, on June 17, 2018 at 9:23 pm (Edit)
What would he do if there was only 3 games left in the season and they were going into LA tied with them for first?
Stratton on pace to go 18-8.
Wouldn’t count on it…
maybe I’m old school about this but I don’t get this paternity leave stuff at all. It would make more sense if these ball players were going there because their wife needed the help or something but they have paid help all over the place. There is no actual *need* for the father to be there except to be a part of the *moment*. And with this being Craw’s 4th kid, I’m guessing that *moment* is dulling a bit.
I can support missing a game for this stuff. But 3 games? That’s is a fucking travesty, there is zero argument for him to miss 3 games. Why not 5? Or 10? See how stupid this is?
No, 6 games would be twins, 9 games triplets and . . . 🙂
Giants sign No. 2 pick Joey Bart to largest upfront bonus ($7.025 million) ever for position player. In addition to Bart, the Giants signed the rest of their top 16 selections and 23 of their first 25.
Suarez so far has been lot better at home than on road. Hitters .209 at home vs. .330 on road and slugging lot higher too.
Compared to Strat, he has lower WHIP, gives up fewer BBs and has more Ks. Strat’s ERA is .70 runs better tho. RHs are killing him so maybe he needs better control of an out pitch.
Bochy used 5 guys to close things out so be nice to see Suarez and the other 5s give them bit of a rest.
Fuck…so happy our boys got a W in tinsel-town. Giants now have a 7-6 season series lead on la bumbinos. I was competing with my dog yesterday, so was folllowing on LameDay and caught the final two innings in the truck on the way home.
OK, time for some serious paybacks…and an old-fashioned fish fry. Giants need to make hay of these chumps, as the following two weeks after the Marlins series are key:
4 against Dago
3 against Zona
6 against the Rox.
Time to put-up or shut-up. Are our guys truly contenders or posers…that two weeks could shed a bit of light on the situation.
I still think that when the Giants get healthy (Cueto and Longo), and if they play to potential, they can make some noise.
Strick quietly notched 14th save yesterday in 16 ops. He’s making $1.5 mil and is arb eligible. He’s having fine season and seems settled in and calmer in closer role.
Contrast that with Rox W Davis, who blew his 4th yesterday, retiring only 1 man in 38 pitches, walking 4 and giving up 2 singles @. Texas after entering with 3 run lead in 9th. Davis is signed for 3 yrs at $52 mil. ERA sits at 4.55 ouch
Phil is catching a lot of crap for that hockey goalie move on the green. But, I liked it. The last Open at the same course had the exact same BS set ups and same idiotic results on play. Contrary to promises, the USGA stuffed shirts set up that course stupidly again like shooting for the clown’s mouth at a Putt Putt. So why not play it like that to show how dumb that is?…
because it’s the US Open. If they don’t like how the course is set up they can pass on playing. What he did was complete and utter disrespect
Marlins are crap, but Giants kraptonite. I’d take 1 of 3 right now and be glad…
Phil Mickleson’s family . . .
Btw, I know he won it last year, too, but who the phuck is Brooks Koepka? Sounds like another Andy North…
Strick has blown three saves, so 14 of 17. He’s been much better after a rocky start, but three blown saves is too many for 17 opportunities. He’s definitely trending in the right direction, though, and his secondary pitches are night and day from years past.
He’s the best option for the team, right now. He had a rocky May but has looked really good of late. Also, a majority of the top closers have at least two or three blown saves. Strickland is not the problem. Biggest problem with the team right now is we need the starters to go deeper into the games (six complete if not more, IMO. Secondary is defense…need to tighten it up with fewer errors.
Koepka is no Andy North—and I love Andy North. North was a guy who hit it short, played conservatively and could putt like hell. A great combo for US Open. Koepka is a stud athlete who looks like he could play free safety in the NFL. (borrowed that line from ESPN)
I’m in the Love Mickelson/Can’t Stand Tiger Camp. For me, you are either a Woods guy or Mickelsen guy, and I love Phil. I have no problem with what he did on the green. Media making way too big of a deal out of it just because its Phil and they are hurting for storylines.
I dislike both. I’m a DJ guy
Woods guy, but love the description of being in his camp or Phil’s . . . Accurate in my opinion. Regarding his mini-golf stunt, I actually thought it was hilarious and had no problem with what occurred afterwards – his comments or the PGA penalty.
However, what pisses me off is the insider trading he committed and then throwing his buddy, sports gambler Billy Walters under the bus, to ensure he wasn’t convicted. Billy Walters is quite a character – if you get a chance, Google him. However, I digress . . . the only reason Mickelson isn’t in jail is because of the plea bargain deal he made, where his buddy paid the price and went to jail.
One of many reasons to hate Phil. Plus, come on, Denny loved him and Denny is a damn fool
The thing about FIGJAM Mickelson is he KNEW the ball was going to roll into that sand trap. He would have likely taken 3 shots or more. Hard to fault him for knowing the rules, but he wasn’t the only one complaining about the conditions that day. Even the USGA officials apologized for the pin placements and conditions ion Saturday.
And people didn’t freak out when Daly did the same thing, BFD. Sanctity of the game and all that is bullshit When you make the course about playing it safe and not taking risks, it makes for boring golf.
Suarez, Rodriguez, and Holland lined-up for Miami. I am predicting at least two of three wins.
I’ll be there Wednesday’s game when the staff ace takes the bump.
Cool! Bring is a win, Dirt! Humm Baby!
Talk about the club overvaluing Posey but Panik is down to .241/.319/.338/.657, -0.1 WAR on the season and slower than everyone in the league not named Posey (who has a rebuilt leg). Hopefully he can pick it up to be of some value at the trade deadline.
I like those similarity scores on baseball-reference for a laugh. Who’s Panik’s top 3 comparables?
1. Tadahito Iguchi
2. Warren Morris
3. Mike Fontenot – lulz
He hasn’t rebounded yet from the thumb surgery. He was having a nice season before the injury.
Or he’s overvalued. Depends on how you see him I guess.
After the first two games of the season his WAR should have been 2.0 for two game-winning HRs, but I know WAR doesn’t work that way.
Some here are probably wondering what FIGJAM means (Good one Chuck . . . I almost forgot about that nick name for Phil and it’s accurate) . . . See below:
https://www.thoughtco.com/phil-mickelson-a-hated-man-3971652
That’s fuckin’ funny, I’m a Phil fan but I’d never heard that one.
Funny that Denny and Mike Fontenot both came up in today’s thread. Reminds me of a great line Denny had when Bochy kept batting Fontenot third—-something about “This Eddie Gadell shit is getting old”
Have your babies in the offseason it’s not “rocket science” December-February!!
Or wait until February to do the baby-making.
The Giants have released a little bit of info about next season’s schedule. The Yanks are coming to AT&T and the Giants are going to Fenway.
Also Baltimore. Saw the Giants in their only series at Camden Yards in ’04, they haven’t been back since. I’d love to go back there to see the Giants again.
Not trying to get overly heavy, but Craw’s wife had two miscarriages last year. So they’re just grateful for a healthy pregnancy whatever the time of year.
That news about the miscarriages wasn’t widely reported.
I’m not saying it justifies missing 3 games. I can see the point that Craw is an entertainer and the show must go on. I can see both sides of that situation.
If Crawford’s wife is giving birth in Northern CA I would think plenty of family is around helping with the kids and he could miss just one game but whatever it’s his business.
he’s going to AZ for some reason
Their main house is in Arizona. (Scottsdale)
Craw’s wife has a twin sister. Both twins are pregnant, and that’s part of the story.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/god-plans-twins-celebrate-joint-pregnancies-loss-stunning-photoshoot-172800515.html
The article mentions a third sister that is pregnant, also.
In the entertainment business, in music and theater especially, but also in sports, “the show must go on” used to be taken more intensely than nowadays.
The NBA is a travesty when it rests superstars for entire games. An unheard of thing in the past.
People buy tickets in advance. The Who didn’t cancel a tour when Entwistle died a few days before the tour started. Some people were appalled the tour went on, but Townsend and Daltry were old-school about it: the show must go on.
As I said, I totally see both sides of the situation. I couldn’t take a firm stand either way.
Keopka is still dating Jena Sims and that shit goes a long way with me.
I’m sorry, 3 games, 3 straight games, is too many. Unless there’s a complication with the birth or something, this is just life happening. It happens all the time. One game, fine. Three is too many. Craw could fucking skype with her for hours after the game is over if he needs to
Sorry, BF, but if you and your spouse had fertility/birth problems you would know that ANYTHING that helps success needs to be tried. Suspect most of that time is handholding and calming her.
who the hell needs four kids? a well regulated country like China or North Korea wouldn’t allow that stuff.
The Nats’ 19 year old phenom Soto hits a go-ahead HR today in the finish of a suspended game. He wasn’t on the roster when the original game was suspended.
Baggs said it happened to Panik in 2014, but I looked it up and Panik didn’t get a hit when he played in the continuation of a suspended game against the Rockies later in the season. He did get what I guess was his first career AB.
Off topic – Are you considering a move to another State? You may want to consult this list of States with the most and least psychopaths:
https://qz.com/1307670/us-states-with-the-most-psychopaths/
That movie scared the shit out of me.
Yeah, I think the movie was saying psychopaths often aren’t going to look like Manson.
Erik Larson’s book, “Devil in the White City” is a chilling story of the first major serial killer in U.S. history, during the World’s Fair in Chicago in the 1890s.
I had never heard of him, and probably the vast majority of readers had never the story. Things get forgotten over the years. That devastating story got forgotten until Larson told the story. The book was a big bestseller.
If I remember correctly, that guy posed as a doctor, which is horrifying.
1. Gorkys Hernandez (R) CF
2. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
3. Andrew McCutchen (R) RF
4. Buster Posey (R) C
5. Mac Williamson (R) LF
6. Joe Panik (L) 2B
7. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B
8. Kelby Tomlinson (R) SS
9. Andrew Suarez (L) P
Calling a Mac bomb tonight (and will continue to call for one every day till he rewards my faith)
Nimmo led off the game with an inside-the-park HR vs. the Rockies. Rough start for the Rockies.
Dodgers/Cubs delayed by rain.
I’m gonna call a HR for Panda.,
Panda revival is a revelation. Where would we be without him?
Pablo with a right-handed HR!
Great play from Specs!
nice play by Specs there.
uh “boring golf.” i’m gonna call that the mother of all oxymorons.
I see the word “boring” as being redundant there. 🙂
Suarez may be the worst bunter I’ve ever seen in the majors.
At the game, the Marlins are gawdawful I don’t understand how we lost 3 out of 4 against them.
I really think that dead stadium had something to do with it…
Giants just needed someone to represent.
Is it as breezy as announcers are all talking about?
Cutch just missed that one.
Yeah it’s pretty windy out here
Ole says the matador.
Marlins act like they’ve haven’t played baseball outdoors in a while.
This can’t be the same team we played in Florida. Bunch of morons.
Nice bounce back inning from Suarez. Inning before they hit a bunch of rockets off him and cut the lead in half. he got lucky the clueless kid got greedy trying to stretch the hit into a double.
Giants beat writer Henry Schulman joined Gary & Larry on Monday and said that with Pence and Jackson struggling like this, the Giants know they are going to have to make a change soon.
“They understand that with both Pence and Jackson there’s going to come a point, probably sooner rather than later, where they are going to have to make a tough decision, because we’re getting to the point of the season where it’s not early anymore,” Schulman said. “They need the offense wherever they can get it. Slater has done everything he can to make the 25-man roster, and something you didn’t mention is that with Longoria out, that’s a big right-handed bat that’s missing from the lineup that is going to be out for another six weeks. The Giants know they are more vulnerable against left-handed pitching right now.”
Schulman indicated that in an ideal world, the Giants would like to trade Pence to a team looking for veteran leadership.
“So what and how the denouement is going to be — if I can use a French word — how it’s going to happen, I don’t know,” Schulman said. “When it’s going to happen, I’m not sure. I think with Pence they would love to have him be able to just hit enough so that maybe they could find a team, a young up-and-coming team that could use some veteran leadership down the road. I mean the Giants would have to pay his whole salary, he would agree to have to go, but I agree with you that it can not go on longer with having Pence and Jackson be on the roster, basically half the bench, where you get no production at all. They know it. It’s just a matter of how and when it’s going to happen.”
From the KNBR site.
Well, you know the drill, acknowledgement is half the battle.
And, as Henry said, it just isn’t early anymore. We’ve waited on those two guys.
Nice double-play!
And on one pitch by Dyson.
Just tuning in…holy shit, quite the trim by Specs! Looks like Suarez has pitched a helluva game, too!
And a 2-run jack by Pablo, right-handed.
Oh man wait til Flav hears that one. Crawford Jr. #4 born at 1;30 this afternoon and everyone doing fine according to Amy.
AZ is what 2 hours flight away? He could get good night’s sleep.and be in SF for tomorrow night game easy.
That’s what I was thinking. Mom and kid are good, get your ass back here.
Specs with a couple of defensive gems tonight. Me thinks he prefers S.F. over Sactown.
At $16 mill per year, which I think is what Craw is owed, his 3 game paternity leave = just under $300K in salary earned while starting the diaper patrol on the newly minted Braxton Crawford…
The union negotiated the leave, wtf wouldn’t he take it? And I think his wife is Mormon. Populating the earth is a big deal, I hear.
I’d take it, for sure…
lol . . . Good one Xoot.
Is Stricknine wore down and out tonight?
I hexed him.
walk and a hanging slider and it’s one run game.
now he’s all over the place and about to put go ahead run on base. yikes
Jesus, Strickland has nothing tonight.
No shit. Hope he amazes us and pulls one outta his ass…
Musclehead making a case for Melancon to take over his spot…
Fuck his snake eye . . . Just concentrate and pitch musclehead.
Another lead coughed up vs. the Marlins.
Can’t beat the fucking Marlins.
Maybe the worst loss of the season if this holds up.
Bad loss boys.
Bochy late on the pull, Musclehead had nothing. Thanks for managing to give up the lead, Bochy….
This just seems to happen too often? Sure seems like it to me…Fuck…
Fucking Strickland talking shit while walking back to the dugout. Well played dumbass . . . Go take a shower.
I’ve never liked this dude after wrongly liking him initially because of the velocity.
He is a dumbass. You really don’t want a dumbass as a closer, because in a real tight situation in a big game, the dumbass in him is likely to show up…
You know that most closers are different and a bit off a la Wilson, Romo, etc. However, Strickland is stupid and emotional. Consequently, he let’s his emotions get the best of him, which results in stupid displays as we just witnessed. Disappointed because we had this game in the bag.
Agreed w all that.
He gets vapor lock in a macho sort of way, and the dumbassery shows up.
Bad things follow…
I agree with snarkk that Bochy owns this one as much as Stricknine…
Stricknine doesn’t seem to understand what type of “mental” is essential to the closer mentality.
Pfffttt…fuck this…
Specs was hitting about .150 at Sac, wasn’t he?
He’s completely stopped hitting.
That was a great play (saved a run at the time) by him behind 2nd. Too bad musclehead lost a gasket and cost us the game afterwards.
Yeah, Spec’s defense was sharp.
Specs got called up instead of Calixte or d’Arnaud because he can make those plays. It’s beautiful. But damn you don’t want to see him leading off in the bottom of the 9th when you’re down.
Fucking awful, just fucking awful.
Now, that’s how a closer works -“Bearclaw”.
To me, this earns Musclehead a demotion. No question.
Not just the result, but the dumbassery (again) that went with it.
And Bochy, if he were in NY, would get a media grilling.
Terrible loss…
Wow . . . Strickland still trying to start something (stare out????) on the dugout stairs. Go to the tunnel dumbass and shower.
31-0 with lead after the 8th . . . until tonight’s fiasco.
So, that means they’ve won all their blown saves? Because they’ve had blown saves…
I might have heard it wrong. Sorry, dunno. However, your point is good.
Some Marlins fan has put some seriously bad voodoo on the Giants. Giants are snakebit by this franchise.
Told you guys this morning the Marlins are kraptonite to the Giants, and I’d take winning one of three and like it. I’m still down with that…
Did anyone understand what Flannery just said? LOL
Onward.
Nite gents…
Specs had to lead off the 9th because the Giants are carrying 5 outfielders; they’re hanging onto both Pence and Jackson.
Two guys that are worthless as pinch-hitters, too.
Right now, we’re vulnerable to teams that stack left handers against us (and they will with Longoria out and Pablo only effective against righties). This is where Henson comes in, as he’s serviceable against lefties.
Bochy actually could have pinch-hit for Tomlinson, but with the choice being Pence or Jackson to bat for Tomlinson or the pitcher, he passed, like: what’s the point?
Wow. 2 outfielders on the bench and Bochy passed on both.
Hansen could have played shortstop in the possible extra inning game.
OK, I’m still tripping on this.
Bochy officially gave up on Pence and Jackson. In theory, they were supposed to be guys who could tie the game with one swing of the bat. Pence, especially.
It’s OVER with those two.
Yep, for Pence anyway’ and it wasn’t like they were down by 2 where a solo shot wouldn’t have tied it; it would have…
Not a good look/message to Pence and Jackson. Might as well release them if he’s not going to use them.
Good point Zumiee . . . I went back to the “play by play” on ESPN and not only did he not pinch hit for Tomlinson, he didn’t pinch hit for Gorkys, who came to the plate with an 0 for 4, with 2 S0s. He could have pinch hit for him too.
Yes, he might as well not even have a choice, Just saw the interview with Strickland . . . To his credit, he maintained his composure and answered the questions.
Yep. That was a real problem with Specs leading off the inning, the Giants desperately needing to get the leadoff batter on base, and there are no better options on the bench.
I dunno. I’m not sure at all I’d rather have Pence or Actionless hit for Specs in a clutch moment to get on base, regardless of Specs recent history of weak hitting. Specs has speed, he can get on and then score from first on a long double…
Exactly. He is the choice as Mac and Zumiee have indicated as well. When your options are those two guys, who can blame Boch for going with the status quo?
Sabes and Evans need to get off their asses and start earning their pay grade.
No, I’d rather have Duggar or Slater.
Went to the game with my son. The wind was howling early straight to LF. It helped Pablo’s HR and the ‘double’ by Posey. Tomlinson was sharp o n D but crap offensively. Fucking Strick looked like shit from pitch 1. What a shitty way to end the game. The Marlins are barely a AAA team the way they played defense. And they still kicked our ass. $30.00 club level seats between home and 3rd were nice, but it was obvious Strick was sick and Boch left him in to crater. I’m about to lose hope if we keep 4-5 auto-outs in the line up every fucking game.
Off the bat Kuip thought the one Cutch hit was gone…did wind hold it back?
Slusser is supposed to have written some article abut regime changes on both sides of the bay, coming soon.