More Bad Luck
It is absolutely uncanny how none of our bad players ever get hurt. Turns out there’s an injury from the scrum? Oh really? Who was it? Casey Kelly? Hunter Pence? No, sorry, it was your ROY candidate, the best player to come out of this letdown season. D-Rod. Of COURSE it was D-Rod.
The only thing that could save the season for me, in terms of maintaining interest, would be if we traded for Matt Harvey and had him pitch against the Reds. That would be an old school move that never happens anymore. And really, though Harvey’s game has become rather staid, I’d certainly prefer seeing him jog out there than a guy like Casey freaking Kelly or someone from The Social Media Gang.
Also, if we traded for Harvey we’d probably need to cancel the Matt Harvey bet due to some type of contingency. We’d need to read the fine print of the bet, eh Dawg?
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Harvey Catchings was a cool player, saw him with Nelson’s Milwaukee Bucks early 80s. Solid team Paul Pressey Marques J Sidney Moncrief Brian Winters Junior Bridgeman…just couldn’t get by Bird and Celts. Unlike later teams Nelson had, tough at D end balanced scoring.
Could not remember where he went to college. Turns out it was Hardin-Simmons, small Texas school I think.
His daughter Tamika was an all star WNBA player and won MVP, played at Tennessee.
I think he was a lefty. Is that right?
don’t remember that; he wasn’t much of shooter/scorer just long armed defender and rebounder. Do remember Winters and his high arcing long range J. Bridgeman from the ‘Ville too—game I saw he caught a pass on the baseline in transition, stared down a Warrior defender who didn’t challenge him and just raised up and knocked it down from about 15. Awesome move.
You’re right Flav………..I reviewed the terms of our bet, and if Harvey becomes a San Francisco Giant the bet is null and void and you will be off the hook.
James’ 11:16 pm last night was such a great capper to an off day of posts related mostly to AM/PM mini-mart. Here it is in case you missed it:
Apparently no one looked at Dirt’s linked DRod analysis yesterday. Numbers are supposed to start dropping to AM/PM burger levels after too much good stuff https://www.instagram.com/p/BmWGBBfDC3h/
Some of the projections indicate him coming back to earth so to speak; not unreasonable but still pure guesswork. so far he seems to only have one bad inning and be able to work his way out of it, unlike say Strat. What I notice is he likes to get ahead in the count and batters sit on first pitch meatballs especially with the curve that catches too much of the zone.
I like guys like this that throw strikes without being overpowering and trust the D behind them. Giants IF is pretty dang good and Duggar helps out a lot in CF.
I saw ’em By those numbers Phil Niekro was a shitty pitcher. Or Maddox or any junkballer.
I don’t think you have to be overpowering K guy “missing bats” to win at ATT. When Suarez and Holland or some of the relievers are going well you see all these groundballs to SS. And Giants turn a lot of DPs.
Pitching in yard like Reds tho, you can’t be walking guys. And every groundball has to be eaten up for an out. Giants had awful road trip there last year; remember Blach getting torched and Hamilton going off.
Hopefully young Rodriguez can make it back without complications. Fortunately Smardjiza is waiting in the wings with a fresh arm.
All I got on the Convenience Store Wars of 2018 is as a young lad my brother and I dumped a lot of lunch money playing Joust at the local 7-11. Never ate the food though. I remember a three way completion back then between am-pm, 7-11 and Circle K. Are they still around or were their foil wrapped offerings too weak to compete for America’s evolving convenience store palate?
I’m with Flav. It was all about the liquids at AM/PM/7-11/Circle K. Well, that and sunflower seeds and cigarettes for the long roadies.
Well, if the Giants game goes off the rails tonight, Folsom high (Sacto burb) is opening the high school football season in Concord against De La Salle. Folsom ranked 8th nationally, De La Salle 14th. I have heard the game will be televised….still looking for those details.
Week 1 Clash of the Titans. Come big or stay on the porch and piss with the puppies. Should be a hell of a game. If they were playing in Folsom…I would be there.
My biggest hope for this series is that the Giants don’t pull some of their typical shenanigans of playing well against a solid rival like the bums, only to roll over like a little bitch against a shitty team like Cincy.
Dirt-Circle K is still a player in the Cali mini-mart wars, but down here in SD, I think 3rd fiddle to 7-11 and AM/PM. I live out in the middle of nowhere and there is actually a damn nice Circle K about 5 miles from me—complete with one of those separate refrigerated rooms where all the beer is kept.
…and I used to love the hot dogs from 7-11 with the steel pump canisters of nacho cheese and chili they would put on them for you——and now in most cases you can put on yourself.
Nice. Toomgis cup is epic btw. I don’t even need to lose a bet to carry that bad Johnson around on the regular.
Last Xmas time while driving in southern Bavaria towards Garmisch, we stopped at a gas station to fill up. Went inside to the C-store. They had home made deli sandwiches, various soups including a killer goulash, other appetizers, multiple fresh pastries including a very good strudel, 8 door cooler with any beverage imaginable, and red and white wine plus several beers on tap. Half a dozen sit down tables and glassware for the beer and wine. Very friendly young ladies behind the counter, speaking german or english. I almost wanted to stay for dinner…
Interestingly enough (or not), 7-11 is ubiquitous in Thailand, on practically every corner in Bangkok and omnipresent even on the islands.. but I’ve never seen one in China or Vietnam. Circle K on the other hand dots the Saigon landscape in the south of Vietnam but not so much here in Hanoi in the north. Sad to say (or not), no Toomgis here. Toomgis could possibly be a hit here. I can’t even count the number of massage girls in China who insisted on watching Tom & Jerry on the tube while doing their thing.
Heh heh. He said ‘on the tube.’
In Texas, the popular mini mart is called Buccees. However some of their locations are anything but small. A couple off of Interstate 10 are nearly the size of a Costco. In fact, like most things Texan, they pride themselves on having the largest mini mart and car wash locations in the world.
Their snacks are pretty damn good, including the best homemade beef jerkey you will have ever.
Growing-up in Oklahoma, by my tween years, Quik Stop was most prominent. Now in my hometown, all the big chains are prominent – 7-11, Circle Jerk, AM-PM. In my childhood years there were three family-owned grocery stores within short distance of our house. These has display case after case, with large glass jars that had any candy you can name under the sun. We would collect soda bottles and cash them in for two cents (eventually a nickel). You could fill up a small brown paper sack for 10-15 cents. That ship has sailed….those days are long gone….
Speaking of AM-PM, those commercials with the tongs dude, or whatever the fuck he is are the stupidest yet. That is some shitty marketing….
Yeah Joe, places like Buccees are interesting, slices of Americana. I wonder at what point does the largest mini-mart in the world actually become a maxi-mart. I’m a sucker for some things Americana. Road trip early morning breakfasts at Cracker Barrel, truckstop cups of coffee at 2am, a late night riverside diner in any city in America after a night out enjoying urban festivities, etc… One road trip had an interesting past-midnight “breakfast” at a Waffle House in Texarkana in either Texas or Arkansas, not sure which, as my motel was a 20 second walk from the Waffle House but in a different state, and a few guys at the next table were talking about how romantic one of the guys was for taking his wife to dinner for their anniversary at Red Lobster, where they actually used nice silverware…
Strickland The Dipshit comes off the DL tomorrow. Who gets sent down? Kelly?
This is all gold…..Bavaria, Texas, Oklahoma, Thailand. I love it all.
I see a mini-mart meal in my future this weekend.
Flap Universe, baby! We’re everywhere…
I don’t see the bromace attraction of Matt Harvey? He’s washed up we have enough of these stiffs on are team right now!
Unless Baer wants some more revenue and he can have a special Harvey Bar Candy night promo..
it’s just because me and Diggity have had a bet going on him since he got traded to Cinn. O/u number of QS with them this year was 4.5. He’s at 4 now so…..
About 20 years ago there was a 7-11 that I would stop in on the way home from my local bar. The guy at the register on graveyard shift was a big friendly Samoan looking guy. Whenever I would stumble in he would stop whatever he was doing and greet me by yelling out: BON-ROVI!!!! (sic)
Am I the only one who didn’t know who the SP was gonna be tonight?
1. Andrew McCutchen (R) RF
2. Alen Hanson (S) LF
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
7. Joe Panik (L) 2B
8. Steven Duggar (L) CF
9. Casey Kelly (R) P
Yeah BonRovi, we’ve talked about it a little bit in between various and sundry mini mart posts.
I’d prefer Gene Kelly.
We’ve gone down this dive diner road before. What was the Spud Nuts place off of 505north of 5 (I think). They had all things potato. potato pancakes, potato donuts, and a host of other deep fried things. Staggered in there late one light on a drive back from Oregon . . .
In Sac? I don’t think I know the place. You’re not talking about the Truckadero are you?
Yeah the dead zone between Sac and Woodland
Did not know this: Casey Kelly is the son of Reds interim bench coach Pat Kelly.
Pat had one really big hit for the Yankees that I remember…
I thought it was the same one too, but Casey’s father is a different former MLBer.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellypa02.shtml
Good job, Mac!
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I will probably never eat at a place called the Truckadero.
I’m not sure watching baseball on TV is enhanced with the digital strikezone on the screen. It creates a lot of frustration watching the umps miss so many calls. Last night, there were lots of calls missed. Some balls pretty far out of the strikezone were called strikes. It’s just frustrating to watch it happen to the team you’re rooting for.
If those things are accurate, it’s amazing how much shit they miss. Like all the other shit they replay, these guys roll at about a 70% correct clip. Which sucks.
Imagine if they were Air Traffic Controllers…
Whose idea was it to have a home plate umpire calling balls and strikes anyway? I umpired a couple of my son’s little league scrimmages and I was amazed at how difficult it was to determine balls from strikes standing back there. And this was for nine year olds, I can’t imagine trying to call balls and strikes for big leaguers.
The best view is really from the second base area.
I umped little league games for a number of years. You’re right Wilco,, it isn’t easy. All the more reason I want to see a robot calling balls and strikes, AND enforcement of the strike zone, as written in the rule rule book.
Reds color announcer just described Buster as if he’s ready for an assisted living facility…
Hamilton hits about .200 against the rest of league, but he freaking kills the Giants(.393 last year)they can’t get this pesky dude out!
Oh just like that Kelly picks him off, well that’s one to get him out..
I would’ve caught that…
Casey doesn’t miss many bats.
Followed by Cutch making no attempt to catch that ball on the fly…
Casey Kelly is one of the great white holograms of our time. This guy is just a batting practice pitcher….
I recently stopped into a pleasant convenience store in Limerick, Ireland, attached to a gas station, that somewhat resembled the Bavarian place Snarkk described. The deli counter sold a lot of fresh food, including good hand-carved sandwiches. Outside under an awning tables and chairs offered a decent place to eat.
Anyone here remember the “Cheaper” convenience stores that spread across northern California in the 90s? For a while my neighborhood “Haffeez’s Cheaper” on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland (now a 7-11) offered a stack of chardonnay by the register for $1.99 per bottle. All I remember about the label is that it reminded me of Fleurs du Mal so, one day, wtf, I bought a bottle, and it turned out to be terrific. We spent a lot of time identifying the bright, complex flavors. The Cheaper people must’ve grabbed a good lot for pennies on the dollar from someone. Every bottle of the stuff I bought after that was just as good. I thought it was pretty funny serving $1.99 wine to pompous academic guests who came to dinner.
More gold!
Kelly kind of reminds me of Brian Wilson without the “Heat”
Who is announcing? Don;t recognize either voice. I mean Kuip now but who was play-by-play earlier?
What’s the difference?
There’s nothing to say…
somebody Waltz–ex Marlins announcer. Not horrible. He keeps reminding us that disco what’s his name for the Reds throws a nasty two seamer and a decent four seamer, along with a good slider. Javy keeps insisting that he’s just a “two pitch guy.”
One of the announcers was Lopez. As Loo said, who fucking cares, there is nothing about this team worth mentioning now that D-Rod is on the shelf.
El Con Man. effin a. Following Moronta, Melancon looks pretty weak.
Good to see Duggar pull one like that. At ATT with a little height, he could double his HR total.
Everything else I’ve seen is weak ground outs to IF. arrgghh
DeSclafani gets a strikeout that should’ve ended the inning and they take him out.
Better capitalize on that minor miracle…
Grant Brisbee published a piece this week claiming that the dropped-third-strike rule in baseball is the most stupid rule in sports. I didn’t buy it. Seeing Wild Man take first just now, I definitely don’t buy it.
Posey should change his number to 53 or 63.
A 1-2-3 inning!
pretty quick nine innings
The Giants sure seem to play a lot of extra inning games.
16 – most in majors per Reds announcers…
Thanks Loo, I have the volume off.
Yeah, seems like every third damn game.
Yes it does, LJ.
First base ump has Amblyopia…
Had to look that one up, Loo.
Double vision?
If it’s Waltz, it’s probably Rich Waltz, who did the Marlins for a long time and was also in Seattle doing Mariners games from the studio end. I’ve no idea why he’s doing a Giants game in Cincy.
Kruk didn’t make the trip, And Flemming is doing the little league World Series for some reason..And throwin in Jon Miller with the usual bs “Special Assignment “ só they needed a throat..
Gorks 2 for 18. He’s turning into Blanco.
Wow. Hanson didn’t have a prayer.
Another banner night at the plate for the Giants.
Be careful with this fuck…
Big Ray can bring the cheese.
Why have I never heard of Eugenio Velez? He’s had three nice years in a row and is going to end with 30+ homers this year. It’s be nice if the Giants could come up with an Eugenio Velez every 15 years or so.
We know you meant Suarez…
Yeah, what the hell was I thinking. Sorry Eugenio.
LJ, he was Loo’s Avatar for awhile I believe “Count Chocola”
Season over…
Is that Bill Walton in the green Dead shirt behind HP?
lulz. I hate that fucking dude and those commercials. Pathetic…
lol, Chi, Diggity not gonna like that
All,good. Not saying anyone else needs to hate in that dude/commercial, just doesn’t work for me.
oh, come on, Chi. Toomgis is pretty amusing. Like Jack of Jack in the Box he pretty much convinces me not buy anything he touts, but I don’t mind seeing the commercials. Better than most.
Jack In the Box has had some pretty damned funny ones. The classic is where his old man is pumped-up on Viagra…
Fuck! Our guys suck ass w/RISP. They had their chances but instead roll over like whiny butches to the fucking sorry-ass Reds. Pfffttt….
This two steps forward, one step back, vice versa shit suck ass.
man, Bochy looked completely defeated in the dugout right there. And the players seemed like they could give less than 2 shits.
What a shit, shit, shit offensive team.
Blacvk can look so good one minute.. Then . . . boom boom out go the lights.
dammit
that’s one way to put it…..
pitching has been fine this year, certainly good enough to have a better record than we have this year.
Give the Reds credit, Javy? Fuck that, The Reds are 53-69 for fuck’s sake. They are bottom feeders. No, the correct answer is to shit on the Giants. All night.. Shit on them hard. This team is pushed against the fucking luxury tax and they can’t fucking score any motherfucking runs? They are lucky to be doing this well. Bochy has to do something. Anything. The pull of suckitude is strong with this team. They are in a fucking coma out there.
At least Flan is ripping these guys.
Javy was mediocre all night long.
Javy is as boring as that game.
Yes, this.
1-18 heart of the order will never get it done!
They suck donkey dick, they can’t score at a whorehouse, just fucking pathetic..
15 groundballs from DeSclafani. Dang giants hit the ball on the ground a lot.
All I want now os for LA to fall out of the playoffs.
meanwhile, the a’s and the Astros play tonight and this weekend for lead in their division.
Geez the Reds go all out in Bochy’s interview room, mold on sheet rock, terrible seam that doesn’t line up,guess it doesn’t matter when all he can say anyway:Wellll were just in a funk(no shit) nothing going with the bats, it’s frustrating!
All I want now is for the Giants to admit that their 2 retarted hitting coaches need to be fired at seasons end..
The Reds are one of 4 teams who have a worse record than we do. Nobody on the radio or tv wants to talk about that, they just want to talk about going on this never-happening run to try to catch a half dozen teams in front of us. But look, at this point when you’re only better than the four worst teams in the NL maybe it’s time to admit that, basically, you are one of those teams…….
Flan: “you can’t expect 4 hits in a row. Figure out how to get a guy on and hit a bomb”
Couldn’t agree any more, Flan.
Honestly, this is my biggest worry about this team for next season: back to being all-honky again. OF Slater Duggar Williamson Shaw, IF Belt Panik Craw Longo plus Buster and most of the pitchers = all-honky. While I’m a big fan of diversity in just about any life situation, I don’t dislike all-honky because it’s not diverse…. I don’t like it because it just seems like when the Giants are all-honky, they’re boring as day-old shit. With Pablo and Cutch gone next year and who knows about Cueto, that’ll leave Wild Man Hanson as the only non-honk. No bueno…..
I believe they have one more season of the $500,000 Panda.
Gorks could be back, too…
You’re right,, Pablo could be back but after this last injury, I’m kinda thinkin’ not, even though I would love to see him back. Gorks… I always forget about him and figure he’ll disappear all hologram-like at some point…
Two more weeks till the call-ups…
I think the Mets would jump at Panik and Strickland for Lagares.
Send Hanson to winter ball and make a real 2B out of him…
Yeah, Hanson needs to field grounders and make turns at second int his hands bleed. Panik looks like his days are numbered with SF..
Watch to the end:
Well done Mac!
Dodgers are unloading on the Mariners. Could be a rough weekend for the Mariners.