Just Go Away
Channeling my inner Kato Kaelin, here’s a list of guys I don’t want to see play another inning this season:
Hunter Strickland. Hunter Pence……Hunter Panik. Hunter Longoria. Hunter Crawford. Hunter Belt. Hunter Blanco.
Do we have enough call ups to plug warm bodies in for those suckers?
…still O for September.
Per this column (based on fWAR, bWAR, and wRC+ statistics), Posey, Belt, Panik, Longoria, and Crawford are all trending “downwards” and will NOT improve next season. Regarding Longo – he’s apparently dropping like a rock and considering his age, has zero chance of improving.
Of course, we all knew that based upon what our eyeballs have been seeing each game. Only bright spot is Duggar and he’s injured.
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2018/9/7/17832604/2018-mlb-san-francisco-giants-searching-for-improvements-buster-posey-brandon-crawford
And the infield is counted on as being their strength….
As the column points out, “. . . we’re looking at a whole bunch of 2-3 WAR players paid like 2-3 (and sometimes 3-4 WAR) players. That’s fine. Teams need those. Teams need a lot of those. But they need them to supplement the 5-6 WAR players. The Giants don’t have any of those players, and, due to the cavalcade of 2-3 WAR players, they barely have any space – on the field or in the bank – for the 5-6 WAR players.”
In a word, “depressing.”
His real name is Brian. Who knew?
I thought it was Hunter . . .
Read an obit from NYT in chron yesterday on Stan Brock, the Brit guy who used to be on old Wild kingdom show with Marlin Perkins I enjoyed long time ago. Turns out he set up medical program to help in Amazon and around the world, including Appalachia called Remote Area Medical. Also wrote 3 books and devoted his life to health care to the “underserved.”
Makes you hope others are able to follow in his footsteps and maybe America and rest of planet aren’t on path to some dystopian wasteland nightmare future reserved for the posh only.
There might not be a worse radio show than Vida blue and Bill Laskey droning on a sept sat morning down the drain with the Giants hopelessly out of contention.
They should call it Blue’s Clueless.
On 7/25/71, Vida was 19-3/1.37…
i think that’s the last date in baseball he remembers. He knows literally nothing about the game or the players who play it today. You could find old women who know more
Is this guy an idiot? Yes or no?
https://aroundthefoghorn.com/2018/09/04/san-francisco-giants-still-dynasty-posey-bumgarner/
Yes. Straight up nonsense…
Here’s another imbecile writer indicating that Hunter Pence should be starting . . .
https://aroundthefoghorn.com/2018/09/03/san-francisco-giants-hunter-pence-right/
What utter claptrap.
Bochy has been quoted lately that he knows the youngsters need to play, but he wants to win games. Did he write this pablum?…
“The Giants have seen enough of Slater to know what they have in him. He’s a line drive hitter who is good at taking the ball to right. Additional at-bats would be good experience for Slater, but at this point I think the Giants should try to ensure that they don’t lose any more young outfield talent to injury.
There’s less than a month of San Francisco Giants baseball left, and I intend to see as much of Hunter Pence on the field as possible.”
“I want to be able to see him bust his rear end down the line on a routine ground ball as many more times as I can before it’s too late.”
Really? This guy is serious? Sounds like something you’d see in The Onion.
And then he caps it all off with a phrase I detest: “The heart wants what the heart wants,” which sounds like amoral claptrap to me. People have used that phrase over the years to justify all kinds of destructive selfish behavior.
What a fuckin’ dope…
Well, here ya go…
1. Chase d’Arnaud (R) 2B
2. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
3. Austin Slater (R) RF
4. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
5. Hunter Pence (R) LF
6. Aramis Garcia (R) C
7. Abiatal Avelino (R) SS
8. Gorkys Hernandez (R) CF
9. Chris Stratton (R) P
Murdered Row, to use a phrase from one of the Flappers last season.
Pence is starting? Wow! Boch must be reading that scribe I cited. Unfuckingbelievable. Yes, “murdered row” as Zumiee said.
What the fuck is Longo doing in there too? They brought the kid Jones up, so play him. I’m really pissed though that Shaw isn’t starting. Again, I have no frickin’ idea why Pence is in there . . . Shit, even the Cards competing against the Brew Crew for a wild card – probably don’t want his ass in there (knowing that Shaw gives them a better chance than Mr. Dribbler).
Whatever the rationale for playing Pence, unless it involves one of the available young OFers being hurt and unable to play, it is entirely bogus. You can’t even use the “fans want to see him” bromide because it’s a roadie game…
Agree. Especially with your last sentence.
I heard some of the Vida and Lasky show today. Listening to those old ballplayers makes me think Bill James had a pretty easy time conquering baseball. Baseball never knew what hit it when James and his followers arrived. Kruk and Kuip are the same. They still have no idea.
great point
With their drums and cowbells, the A’s crowd sounds bigger than it is.
Serena Williams had a little meltdown today. She got in trouble for getting hand-signals from her coach. Apparently that’s not allowed in tennis. I wonder why not? I don’t necessarily know much about tennis.
Affeldt is sporting one of his World Series rings. Very cool. Always like to see those being worn.
Specs subbing for banged up Belt.
I’ve seen enough of him, too.
Then I looked up his career numbers and they actually total up to a relatively decent season:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tomlike01.shtml
Honky speed.
“They said get back honky cat
Better get back to the woods
Well I quit those days and my redneck ways
And oh the change is gonna do me good”
Thumbs up. Love that song
seriously, how?
Great question. But it worked time after time for Bird. Bad fundamentals on defense.
Stay down and the block the shot AFTER the ball goes in the air. Bill Russell was a clinic on it. There is time to try to block the shot after it leaves the hand, without getting faked out.
Magic the victim?
I would say yes, in that championship game. Magic was #33 in college. And wore #32 in the pros, of course, because the big fella wore #33.
Granderson seems to be aging gracefully. Pence? Not so much (as that previous pop up catch indicated).
It’s the reverse of the Picture of Dorian Grey.
Impressive rack on the chick in the pink behind the plate sitting next to the Giant fan…
She’s a Brewers fan. I always wonder how those relationships work out, where one person roots for one team and you root for the other? Hmm . . .
I’m sure her tits have the last word…
Tits or not, she’d be put to the curb after this game if I was dating her. Getting tired of her clapping after every Brew crew success and Giants fuck up.
The kid got robbed by the ump. That was a ball all the way.
Awful call strike 3, by shithead Cuzzi.
I like how the rookie glared at him.
This team could use a little attitude…
I would really like to see Shaw, Avelino, and/or Jones succeed during their brief call ups this season. Hoping one or two of them can join Slater as potential answers next season.
Cuzzi is giving Gio a huge strikezone. The fix is in. Cuzzi hears dinner calling.
And screws up again…
Safe MOFO.
Whatever the opposite of a spoiler is, that’s what the Giants are.
Enablers.
I remember the Giants getting ripped off by Cuzzi in the past, in the pre-replay years.
Hamari was no great shakes last night either (especially to Hundley and Boch, who both got thrown out of the game).
Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dodgers lost.
Jesus. This Cal game is ridiculous. A penalty every GD play.
And now Cal is giving it away.