Pirates in Town
New thread time. Sorry it took so long to get it posted. I kept thinking to myself “you’ve forgotten something, what was it? Did you leave the stove on? The front door unlocked?” And then, boom, it hit me.
I see Suarez getting back on the beam tonight. He’s been ragged lately but he’s back at home and Pitt is coming out of Nepal, always a good bet against hitters in the first game off the mountain….
Nova sucks so I’m sure he’ll shut us down easily….
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
The jersey nickname game. So dumb.
No desire to crawl out on the ledge of a very tall building this year (that was last year), but damned near ready to wave the white flag.
A’s are even worse
I kinda like Phegley’s.
“Capt. Barrel” is a nice one.
I’m sure most of them have politically incorrect nicknames that they would much rather use…
Moronta is the Chick?
Semien is sauce? That’s a little gross.
From Bob Nightengale. The Giants have no players with 15 home runs. The Dogs and Yanks have 6 a piece.
That’s a big fucking ouch.
Using Loo’s comment yesterday in relation to our hitters…bunch of fucking “banjo hitters.”
Looking at the stats of the Pirates’ outfielders, I don’t see any need for McCutchen…
Define hella
A non sella…
Hella bad.
Hella can’t hit for shit!
Does the back say Would Be Nice?
Great idea!
Jayson Werth’s take on sabermetrics:
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24329670/jayson-werth-rails-super-nerds-killing-game
I agree with his spin to a degree. There are certainly instances where I think clubs go overboard on the advanced stats. Kind of agree with Werth…let ‘em play.
1. Andrew McCutchen (R) RF
2. Buster Posey (R) C
3. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
4. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
5. Austin Slater (R) 1B
6. Alen Hanson (S) LF
7. Joe Panik (L) 2B
8. Steven Duggar (L) CF
9. Andrew Suarez (L) P
He’s right. I don’t know how “bold” this is
“Kerry Crowley of The Mercury News boldly calls Madison Bumgarner’s contract situation the Giants’ “elephant in the room”. Crowley wonders whether Bumgarner must be traded in order to spark a rebuild for the club, who failed to make any significant moves at the trade deadline and now sit at 57-58 on the season after struggling to the league’s worst record last year (tied with the Tigers, of course). Whether the club ultimately decides to “rebuild or remodel”, Bumgarner’s the only player on the roster whose contract might warrant teams forking over a significant prospect return; something an aging Giants team could certainly use. Crowley describes Bumgarner’s future as “uncertain” in the amidst a mediocre team with a gargantuan payroll.”
if anyone catches a video on twitter of Zito singing the natty tonight please post it here, I missed it
He knows a lot about “bombs bursting in air”…
I don’t get all the Grateful Dead nostalgia.
Is it a San Francisco thing?
It’s an “appreciate epic music” thing. But yeah, they were from here so they might be a little more popular around these parts. But their legacy is strong across the US my man….
Yes, one of the original San Francisco “Summer of Love” bands. They were followed, and toured, around the world. Big on the right coast, too…many many shows back there. Hell, I saw them in Tulsa Fucking Oklahoma in ‘72 while in “high” school.
And yes, I am a big time “Dead Head.”
Commercials are pushing their boundaries these days, trying to catch the viewers’ attention.
– the TOOMGIS “You should hit that” commercial
– Pizza My Heart. In the beach scene, Jimmy accidentally steps on the woman’s sandwich, and we can read her lips saying “What the hell?”
Plus all the bikini-clad women in their commercials, with some of the smallest bikinis around.
– the commercial where a grandmother is on the phone talking to a grandchild about the drawing the grandchild sent her. “Yeah, I got it. What the hell is it?”
– Jack in the Box commercial where Jack is talking about his big bowls, doing a play on the word “balls.”
my old man has a good Jerry Garcia story, I may have told it here before. Back when he was starting his practice he would take night calls for people who had their faces bashed in in a drunken fight or whatever. One night he got a call, some hippie had fallen down and cracked his mouth open. My dad patched him up, gave him a bill for $70. Dude never paid. It was Jerry Garcia. He had the receipt for a while I think, lost it somewhere along the way.
Part of the Grateful Dead nostalgia is nostalgia for the ’60s in general. They became a gathering point for people to keep that flame alive. It was an exciting decade for musical innovation. Everything in rock music was so new.
The Dead never really did it for me. I should like them, I guess, given other types of rootsy Americana groups I like; but I just never connected with them. Sometimes you just don’t really know why.
I think I know 2 of their songs.
All I know about Jerry Garcia is that he died almost the same day as Mickey Mantle…
I’m sensing a lot of ’70’s nostalgia in general lately.
Seems like the younger generation is very respectful of the craziness – a different kind than the 60’s…
The Giants and the 9ers games are both on the tube back here – “Someone get me a fucking wiener before I die..”
So much for Suarez’s bounce-back. Fuck this…I’m up at 4:30 to hit an early spin class. Enjoy, girls. Hopefully they rally….
Is there that much to learn?
Nothing to learn, Loo. It is about being well rested to go burn about 400-500 calories in 45 minutes, AND to check out all the babes there. 😜
Because the Giants bats suck donkey dong…
Road teams have now hit 46 in 57 games. That’s not a whole lot.
Niners with about 7 guys injured in the 1st quarter.
Is Werth even playing anymore?
Dusty is the best guest K&K have had in a while.
Is there an elephant in the broadcast booth?
the doughnut for the Giants the 1st time thru murderer’s row.
I was never a Dead Head, but I appreciated their music as different from anything else at that time (’60s and early to mid-’70s), combination of good original songs and also takes on past bluesy stuff. Saw them a few times, best was during my late high school years, the Watkins Glen Festival in summer of… ’72? ’73? Dead was supposed to kick things off Saturday morning, followed by The Band and ending with Allman Brothers, but on Friday evening, a gorgeous upstate NY summer eve, as the thousands starting trickling in to grab their spots on the ground, the Dead came out to play a warmup set. Very festive and light mood, and crowd was well behaved, even keeping the “aisles” intact. By early morning, there were no more aisles and it took 2 hours to walk out of there to the outhouses. That was definitely the last *festival* I went to….
Wow. 4 mintes to watch the Niner game and we have already gone through our half an inning.
Fuckers have the Giants game listed but it’s the Stros.
Yeah first time I saw the Dead they played Kezar in 1975, with Bob Dylan. Crazy show and it got me into them, at age 14. I never followed them around but I knew a lot of folks that did. I saw them around 20-25 times.. Always different, sometimes great, sometimes not-so great. Always fun though.
Come on, DJ. Truckin; everyone knows. Scarlet Begonias.. Box of Rain. Touch of Grey
It’s amazing how the summer just zips by after July 4th..
couple nice looking gals came into store today that are headed to Outside Lands this weekend, looking for those clear backpacks per regulations. what stores do you get them from?
Amazon, like everything else, I’m sure…
REI?
McCutchen uses a weird looking bat…
“Friend of the Devil” is the overexposed, sorta cool Dead song.
It was nice of Hershey’s to make something for people like me who are allergic to chocolate…
Speaking of music, I was listening to the Rush album “Roll the Bones” today. The song “Dreamline” could be about the Giants’ aging core of once great players.
“When we are young
Wandering the face of the earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we’re only immortal
For a limited time
Time is a gypsy caravan
Steals away in the night
To leave you stranded in dreamland
Distance is a long-range filter
Memory a flickering light
Left behind in the heartland”
When the music’s over
When the music’s over, yeah
When the music’s over, turn out the lights
Turn out the lights, turn out the lights, yeah
For the Giants are your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
The Giants are is your only friend until the end
Until the end, until the end
That dude has wheels.
That is scary shit.
Yes! I’ve been listening to their album. Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck.
Ahhh, forgot Friend of the Devil.
Estimated Prophet is also a great song.
I was about to insult Duggar.
It can wait…
Think you could’ve got 500-1 in February on Gorkys leading the Giants in homers?
Be nice to see Cutch do something. Like one hella home run.
The Muddler makes it through 5 again…
Rockies have a terrible closer. The guy used to be good; but he’s not anymore. He’s killing the Rockies’ season.
Crawfish waves at 2 fastballs down the pipe
How many great memories of Mays as a player could Barry Bonds possibly have?
He was all of 7 years old when his washed up godfather was sent packing to the Mets…
Players are among the worst for knowing baseball’s past. The fans know way more of the history.
The way K & K talk you would think Barry was in the Polo Grounds for the Vic Wertz catch…
He grew up in the clubhouse so there’s some kind of memories.
Think he even had a “mini barcouloger” even back then..
I just saw that Austin Meadows was part of the Chris Archer trade. Mrs. James and I saw his MLB debut and first hit the night we went to PNC back in May. Nova was the starter that night against the Pads. We got $50 seats in the first row right behind the Pirates dugout. The usher wiped the rain off of our seats before we settled in. After the game, we crossed one of those rivers for a cocktail before heading back to our Mexican War Streets Air BnB. Pittsburgh is really a pretty great city, completely unlike what you’d imagine it to look like.
Oh Good. Melonhead for the add-ons. The Longo bongo didn’t help.
LongorEa.
Fucking Melonhead. 1-2 count so I’ll give him a nice BP fastball. And boy do Kruk and Kuip get tiresome when these guys are sucking, Didn’t know Crawfish had an error as well. Bleeeeh. Niners look like shit as well..
I’m burned out on Krukow gushing about Barry. Regarding Barry, Krukow is sort of Trumpian, in my opinion, in his willful creating of a fictitious “reality.” I want to hear Krukow mention the steroid use, even if obliquely, and give a reasonable perspective on Barry’s career. A lot of Barry’s career is still great, but there’s a big part that is tainted. Krukow is embarrassing himself
Well, they are retiring his number this weekend . . . .
That’s great, but Krukow is always Mr. Respect The Game, except when it comes to Barry. Krukow could acknowledge controversy in Barry’s, use euphemisms to briefly show some courage. Just once with Barry. That’s all I ask. Just once.
“Barry’s career,” I meant.
I think the rest of the country and Bob Costas have got it covered.
I don’t see what Krukow what lose by showing some small bit of integrity on this matter. Kuiper, too.
“would lose” I meant.
I’d rather they admit they’ve been old school dickhead moron assholes in their commentary on BB9 over the last several years. That would impress me.
Well, that ain’t happening either. 🙂
Fuck. I should have just gone to bed.
A 95 mph fastball at the very top of the inside corner of the strike zone, gone . . . . was that really because Derek Law sucks?
Boom boom. Out go the lights.
Clownball by the Giants tonight.
This applies to the game and the season..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEzz4QTvItA
Yeah, I’d been holding out a little hope, but this season’s slim playoff hope is over.
I’ll still watch their games the rest of the season, but it’s over.
He always put on a great show . . . .
Every Pence AB is an irritating reminder that he was on the roster this season.
I just DFA’ed my door closing dummy…
Just play it in reverse . . .
Lol Loo!
Maybe you can replace him with a Hunter Pence door mat..
Pence at the fence, no more E-9 and that’s how a washed up player does towards his declineing days..
Well, the dropped fly makes me feel more sorry for Pence than irritated. It’s just sad.
Man, rough night for the Gyros.
You know it’s a rough night when all K&K can take as long about now is an oldtimer vendor named “Crazy Legs””
I don;t remember manny Sanguillen looking like a bumblebee behind the plate
You can always count on Pence to kill a mini rally and end it..
Hey but how about those 49er!!
Coming back late for the win!!
After Pence dropped the fly, he looked at his glove and shook his head. He knows he has less than two months left in his baseball career.
He plowed through and made the $18 million this season, embarrassing himself along the way. From a certain angle, it could be seen as admirable. He did what he had to do to add even more financial security to his family, even if it involved a humiliating final season.
Fans will humiliate themselves to win a free pizza.
Not sure I get your point, Zum. He was getting his $18 million this year no matter how good, bad, or often he played…
To get the money, he had to show up each day unless injured. He had be willing to play and embarrass himself, with his diminished skills.
Instead of retiring and walking away from the money.
For $18 million, I’d go out there in a bra and panties…
lulz!
Europe is a lucky place to be while the Giants tank. Night games begin when the bars close and end about dawn. A good breakfast helps put the bad news into the past. Pence and Pablo, for very different reasons, embody this year — too much of one, not enough of the other; big holes in the roster and a lot of bad luck; both relics of a bygone era.
I can’t recommend the Museum of Irish Whiskey (right across the street from the fooking Book of Kells); too snooty. But Middleton Barry Crockett Legacy Triple Distilled Irish Whiskey makes a fine toast after a trip to the James Joyce Center, which, for Pawlie’s sake, in case he’s never been here, sits appropriately just down hill from the site of 7 Eccles St.
I guess I better look forward to a few relaxed meaningless games in the sun in September.
ah but go Giants! Play the kids.
Hitting “the” Ohio State today as last stop on Ohio college tour. The usual will be campus vid to start, tour of around an hour, then a personal interview of the younger snarkette and sit down on financial stuff with parents. I’m wearing my Cal shirt. If they start laughing, I’ve got the required “how many Nobels YOU got? Holding for later the “you’re way ahead of us in the wife beater and liar football coaches categories, we’ll give you that”…
Hah! Represent, Snarkk!