Baseball in Seattle
Hate to have to move on from *The Masterpiece* thread but we do have a game today. I don’t like playing AL ball but we play who’s on the schedule so….
By the way, here is the trinket I uncovered yesterday during the excavation that’s going on at my house right now. As I said last night, the perfect place for this is hanging in San Dawg’s RV so that’s where it’s headed.
Autographed early Cinderella photo. I’m assuming this was 1985 or so and I have no recollection of getting the band to sign this but here it is 30+ years later….
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The ONLY way fast tracking Bart makes sense is to lose Posey somehow.
Cinderella? Yikes.
Yeah, I’m a recovering music snob and that photo made me all twitchy, but I held it together.
Well done Zum, well done.
Thank you.
Hahahahahaha! Next, you’ll pull out your Romantics cassettes.
Yesterday I was going through a bunch of concert tickets I’ve saved over the years. Each ticket triggers different memories.
Of course, nowadays, you often don’t even get an actual ticket. You can just download a sheet of paper on your computer. It’s instantaneous; that’s cool. But I have a nostalgic fondness for actual tickets.
Here here but it has been couple years since I actually went to a venue to buy a ticket…just too convenient ordering online and printing it. Just saw Arcade Fire Friday…awesome show. Only half filled amphitheatre surprisingly. The XX this week..
I collect my concert tix, too. For those concerts on which I bought a ticket online, and printed the sheet for entrance, I go to the box office and ask them to print a ticket. Most can and will do so. Also, when ordering online, if there is a “pick-up at box office” option, I do that, and this gets you an old-school ticket.
Great ideas!
Buster leaves on his own terms in my book. Put Bart in LF if he is ready quickly with a major league bat.
Posting Cinderella photo in Harvey may be a tough sell for me to my co-owner, but I think I can get it done. He still owes me one for turning our salad bowl into a urinal. (Long story)
If you think Cinderella is an awful band, give the tune Gypsy Road listen and tell me that is not a solid, simple bluesy rock song with a great riff.
Cards are paying Y Molina $20 mil this season at age 35 and the next 2. His last 3 yrs total of 6.5 WAR.
Posey by contrast last 3 over 15 WAR and he has double Molina’s value so far this year.
I happen to think STL did the right thing even if Yadi did issue them an ultimatum.
Cross the what to do with Posey bridge when they come to it; imo he’s least of their problems.
def one of their better tunes
at some point you’d think Buster would WANT to leave the dish. I understand he prefers catching but he’s a smart guy you would think he would value the health of his body and playing more games at first base than struggling through season after season at catcher….
My company has number of locations in Seattle area and we often wound up there for mgmt meetings. These were often in the fall and it wasn’t uncommon for few days to not witness presence of the sun.
Summer months however were when the guys who lived there quite dug it. Weather there now is supposed to be about the same as San Jose, highs in 80s lows high 50s.
we saw the chihully museum which was very cool. But right next to it was (still is?) the Hendrix theatre, something I would liked to have seen too.
I notice posey being more involved this year, talking to pitchers more and to the other players on the mound once coach or mgr has left. there is such heightened involvement on every single pitch being the C. Maybe that is what drives guys to play the position and stick with it so long as opposed to position players who stand around all the time.
I’m going to bet that is more 1987…’85 was still Motley Crue Shout At The Devil era…
Lot of noise every day on MLBTR about Z Britton and various teams that might be after him. He hasn’t been elite in a while and coming off major injury.
Watson on other hand has been pretty solid this year, did well for LA after coming from Pirates last year and unlike Britton not a rental. Giants owe him $7 mil for next year with option. Teams like braves phils stros etc in the mix so couldn’t Watson bring back a decent player and or prospect, right now?
I don’t think they are in the sell mode now. If anything, I believe they are trying to shop Smardj to free up money to go get the pieces they want/feel they need.
SBNation: The Giants should trade with the Reds and get Adam Duvall
You might not realize this, but there is a very vocal, very strange faction of Giants fans who complain about the Adam Duvall trade all the time. He’s having a miserable offensive season, but he fits the Giants’ luxury-tax aspirations, and his power and defense make him a strong-buy low candidate.
And it would make things quieter around here.
Guy’s having a miserable season with the bat, so bring him in. That’d be exactly what the Giants would do. Screw that. I haven’t seen anyone here beef about the Duvall trade in months. He’s not that good.
agreed. Duvall sucks. Pointless to go after him
here’s an interesting pair of metal fans with a hero
fitting…she’s pretty poisonous herself.
Glad she won’t be California’s First Lady; look at that camel toe.
Shit, you can see the landing strip
Well I much rather have Watson& Smith in the pen over Oshit&Okert , they should keep both of them for their latest Affeldt&Lopez experienced combo..
Agree, Kat. I would keep both for future plans.
They should implement a unified DH rule for ALL interleague games, maybe intraleague too, during the upcoming CBA negotiations. Starting pitchers always bat for themselves, after the 5th inning, you can put in a designated pinch hitter in the pitcher’s spot.
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft. A big negatory on that one.
Donny, Jr. Is so dumb. In June of 2016, Jr. took a meeting with Russians who wanted to trade hacked emails for the promise of the lifting of sanctions and other things.
After he’s convicted, he needs Dad to still be in office to pardon him.
He was asked under oath by the House “Intelligence” committee about calls he made on his cell to blocked numbers right before and after that meeting. Calls were several minutes long. Drumpf is known to have a blocked number in his Drumpf Tower office, which is where he was that day, just a floor above the meeting. Were any of those calls you made to blocked numbers to your father? “I don’t know”. The committee did not go further and subpoena phone records to find the ID of the blocked numbers…
Hey, there were a lot of glam metal bands out there but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have some good songs along the way.
One more, I swear . . .
Night Ranger was actually bad ass, unlike Cinderella, and known for their legendary live shows. Watson and Gillis were two of the better guitarists of their era, Watson, especially, was (is) a virtuoso.
About 20-30 years ago I read that only 1 in 20 women like long hair on men.
I didn’t think those were such bad odds.
I bet now it’s more like 1 in 35…
Longoria slated for a rehab start in Sacto, tonight. So, when he comes back, who’s the short man out? I am guessing Specs, maybe d’Arnaud.
Mike Leake scheduled to face our boys tomorrow afternoon.
Damned near fell outta my chair. d’Arnaud, Slater, and Duggar all in the lineup on the same day…wow.
1. Chase d’Arnaud (R) 3B
2. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
3. Andrew McCutchen (R) RF
4. Buster Posey (R) C
5. Hunter Pence (R) DH
6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
7. Austin Slater (R) LF
8. Steven Duggar (L) CF
9. Kelby Tomlinson (R) 2B
And Specs…and Pence…yikes!
I know! Crazy-assed line-up…especially by Bochy standards.
Some replay insanity in NY that you’ll probably hear about…
Longo must hate the NL right now
Holland going tomorrow instead of Smargerine
Crap 💩 those 3 hits Pence got the other day( didn’t see the game probably dribblers that the defense chuckled at but got thru on the 24 th hop)will give him the DH role for these 2 games and I’ll raise a start as well!
Freakin batting 5th?? Boch needs to cut down on his meds, “He’s tripping more then Jimi Henderix&Jim Morrison”
I never heard of Cinderella the band.
Coincidentally, the Giants being in Seattle tonight….the Seattle grunge rock scene of the ’90s pretty much ended the glam-rock hair-band scene, which Cinderella was part of.
And then rap steam-rolled over all of rock music.
That cameltoe? You can read her lips.
This would’ve been a perfect spot for a thumbs up.
What was that song a ways back about Camel Toe… sung to the tune of a Beach Boys song… I remember at least chuckling a bit at that one….
One of my lovely young students here in Hanoi sent me a photo, with a clearly visible and delineated cameltoe. I feel guilty everytime I look at that pic. Which is often, actually…..
lol
Guilt? Uh, right…😉
To Sir, With Love?…
Wasn’t there a classic movie titled “An American Professor in Vietnam?”
No bueno tonight.
Some unknown, lefty dude starting for the Mariners.
That’s a bad combo…
Just thinking that. A no-name nobody, spells domination for the Giants.
Sure you heard it, but FUCK…Craw and Belt 17 in their last 102, collectively. You’re killing me Smalls!
The Giants retiring #25 sets a nice precedent that the player doesn’t have to be in the Hall of Fame. It opens the door to eventually retiring 55 and 18.
I expect 40 and 28 to be retired numbers someday, too.
And Bochy’s #15.
And 21…
Kent, right?
I don’t know. Not winning the championship in ’02 hurts his chances.
Craw has a better chance than Kent, IMO.
Plus, for whatever reason, Kent is never around. He needs to schmooze the Giants.
Kent’s Giant career was every bit as good as Cepeda’s…
Cepeda’s number is retired only because he made the Hall of Fame.
It’s also a thumb in the eye to the BWAHAHA writers association blackballing Bonds. A public provocative punch, motherfuckers . . . .
Andy pounding the zone early.
Ol’ Graybeard Spam…with the Mariners now. Thank goodness he isn’t wasting space on our bench any more. Our bench has problems of its own having to absorb the suckitude of Pence.
Pence put the ball in play with one of his signature weird-ass ground balls to SS. He’s consistent. Does he have the lowest Slugging % of any starting mlb OF? I bet you he does
Looks like Pence’s visit to that SoCal launch angle guru of Mac’s really raised the launch angle of the first bounce of his dribblers…
a few years back, I thought Pence might hit the first RH splash HR. Now I think he may never hit another HR ever, anywhere
What a hit! Smoked it!
That looked like something that would happen to the Giants.
Specs is at best a 25th man on a shit ML team, but he sure can run…
Great read too.
Nice hitting by Specs…
Specs has his obvious limitations, but man he has some skill, too, and he plays the game well. Hope the train trips back and forth from Sac don’t get him down.
Posey hasn’t homered since the Dred Scott Decision…
well, with the current changes to the SCt, we’re headed back to Dred Scott real soon — so he’s due!
Posey, inept. Fouled off two belt-high fastballs right down Broadway then fans of the curve. He used to murder pitches like that.
Tomorrow’s game is Facebook only. Totally stinks.
Are these Facebook broadcasts drawing new fans?
Spoiler alert: no.
Scared that poor little girl half to death in CF…
mlb doesn’t seem to understand that FB is about to take the deep dive in the USA. Internationally, billions of people still love it, but I don’t think our friends in India and China and Pakistan and so forth give a shit about baseball.
I’m not on any of ’em, but most people I know (all ages) seems to prefer Instagram to advertise their stupidity…
I drive past FB’s HQ about once a week. The international tourists taking selfies in front of the big thumbs up sign never disappoint.
I only advertise mine here…
If they DLed Posey for 10 days, would the squad without him go into an immediate slide off the cliff?
No, they can do that with him, too…
If (or when) the Giants fall out of contention I could see them shutting him down for the rest of the season. Try to get the hip better for next season.
Loo who has the Elm Street house now? The girl? Or do you share it?
The girl I made it for still has it…
that’s disappointing. Could be time for a recon to her house, take one back for our side, eh?
that squibber to 3B from our DH didn’t have any weird spin on it, as his POS squibbers to SS often do. turrible AB
Our DH with the .550 OPS.
Quality AB from Slater, again.
Have you ever seen a camera shot of Baer in the stands where he isn’t talking somebody’s ear off?
oh yeah, that time Wilson came roaring down the line from the dodger pen to confront him in his box. Baer for some reason was just relaxed when B Weezy slid up to the wall and called him an asshole.
I’m sure Duggar has a bright future.
Too bad it’s not as a baseball player…
Loo, don’t you like Duggar?
I think he’s got huge holes in his huge swing and ML pitchers will toy with him if he doesn’t adjust…
Specs, come on!!
Great AB, Kelby!
Yeah, baby!
That aboy Specs🤓
Specs, again! Maybe Longo needs a couple days to uh heal up.
and the no name guy couldn’t get out of the 4th inning as Giants get Suarez the lead again.
I hear ya’ll about Facebook, but I will say this: I rely a lot on post-game video to see most of what happened in a game, and the game recaps on the Giants’ page on FB are way better than what MLB does. FB has a recap rather quickly, it’s more comprehensive, and it’s edited fairly well. Actually, baseball is gaining popularity in China, but of course you can’t get Facebook in China. Also seeing some signs of life for baseball here in Vietnam, nice.
That is cool, that baseball is catching on in more Asian countries. It’s good for the game if you ask me.
Mike Blowers, color man on M’s TV, “Tomlinson was late on the previous fastballs then finally caught up to one.” Bullshit, he was all over everything in that at bat. What an idiot.
you’re right he fouled that last one at 94 straight back off the catcher’s mask.
Shit, just saw the lineup posted , uh up.
This has ti be the weirdest in recent memory. Slater, Duggar, AND Specs? Be still my heart. Pence is the only downer.
Clark Kent getting it done tonight.
Regarding Willie’s 8:14, Bochy did not seem too optimistic about Longo being back by the weekend. Swing away, Specs!
I’ve liked a lot of guys over the years that kinda sucked. It’s not gonna be easy for Specs to get a lot of PT but he is fun to watch. good glove too.
My sons and I attended the Barry Bonds birthday game in 2003. It was a great game.
Denard Span no outs with the bases juiced — this is like a nightmare from a David Lynch film.
Suarez seems to have one bad inning where he just loses it. Limit the damage here.
so much for that shutdown inning. And Old Man Span is up.
I’ll take it at this point.
Wow. Easy play.
Slater flashing the arm!
Terrible call by their 3rd base coach.
yaha Slater makes them pay. Can’t remember last assist from a Giants OF.
Might of been Barry’s on his throw to nail Counsell lol..
Hell of a throw.
there’s no legit argument against it, let Slater and Duggar play the OF
Suarez has just lost it. Zunino is an awful hitter, but Slater picked Suarez up. Great play.
they already know how to do that when they arrive ya dumbfuck.
Did u tweet that to him?
Ha ha.
Hoooo. nice outcome . . .
Kid is getting hit hard, but Austin Slater with a gun to nail Seager at the plate!
Breaking news….. Hunter Pence throw would just be reaching Crawford at SS if he’s in LF..
Is Baggs on the outs here at the Flap these days?
no I love Baggs.
stat guy (the guy who inspired the Loo post which led to the Masterpiece thread) seems to know about this shit and he’s impressed
Slater looks pretty comfortable out there in LF now. He’s obviously been working on his defensive game.