Wither D-Rod?
I guess we shouldn’t be totally surprised, this guy might have been pitching with luck on his side last season. Still, the difference is startling. He gave up 9 bombs all season in 2018. It’s May 10th and he’s given up 9 bombs so far this year. Every number is worse. This is a no-pressure season so we can be patient I guess. But it is rather unnerving that he’s gotten this….hittable?
Here’s what I want to see in the Dubs game tonight: I want to see either Jordan Bell or Quinn Cook get some run. With his energy and athleticism Bell seems like a natural rotation guy in this series and yet he gets no minutes. Cook, too. We need a shooter out there, Cook can do that.
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Would you take the 7.5, Flavor?
No. If anything I’d give it. But today is a no bet just because I could really see either outcome, therefore it’s a dart throw.
I’m leaning towards Dubs getting blown out tonight. But if Steph and Klay get hot, who knows? Still, if Splash Bros gonna splash it’s more likely to happen at Oracle than tonight
Cook is great idea. He can shoot and be less liability handling the ball and defensively than Livingston, who is just plain done and has been for a while. Class guy is #34 but less minutes the better.
Bell, lol. Athleticism, OK but it’s the NBA so there are a few hundred other athletic guys in the league who have way more skill set than Bell does. He’s just clueless on offense, incapable of creating his own shot and has range of 8 ft. He’s a post in a too small body.
Good news for Giants is Reds never scored more than 4 runs in visit to A’s. Hold them down to that level SF can be OK. this is time to show some things…Reds are last place team, Blue Jays (next in) are close to one and they play 2 other last place teams Orioles and Marlins to end the month.
Chuck:
Thanks for the Jim Ray Hart thing yesterday. I still the Giants really failed him, although I can’t prove it.
Anyway, Mays talks about Hart’s drinking in the autobiography he did with Lou Sahadi in 1988. Mays made a deal with Hart that if he stayed sober for 6 days a week, he would gift him a bottle of Old Crow every Monday. Mays bought a case of it and Hart collected his bottle every week and had a great year (1965). At the end of the season, Mays gave him $500.00 for “telling the truth and playing every day”…
Wow. Sad story. Didn’t realize his drinking problem started that early. I guess the team figured that since he didn’t want to be honored, they’d just blow him off. Petty bullshit.
that’s an absolutely crazy epic story.
I like DRod too, stand up kid. After getting blasted by Reds he didn’t make excuses, and said words to effect Roark was pitching in same yard and didn’t make as many mistakes.
Hope coaching staff can fix him if problem is mechanical.
but yes, SPs young and old have been getting hammered lately.
I think the Warriors are going to take this game. Harden inexplicably disappeared when KD went down. I think Harden has another brain-fart game in crunch time.
Guys like Stephen A have written the Warriors off and I’m sure Kerr is using that as fodder to get these guys a little extra jacked. Flav is right though, it is all about the bench. Bell is a big disappointment so far and Livingston is just a shell of himself. It’s on Cook to provide some bench firepower.
I mean it would be great to be able to keep Iggy on the bench and start Bell in KD’s spot.
So bummed the game was rained out last night. But i did get some pics this morning of Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile. I’ll post them tonight or tomorrow.
One thing about this series: Paul is a shell of himself. Without his game he just comes across as a whiny, flopping bitch. Hope I didn’t just jinx him into a HOF performance tonight. But seriously, he’s trending into Livingston territory, at least in terms of looking *done*.
I have no interest in watching, but I hope the Rockets crush them. I still see another Warrior title as inevitable, but I’d be glad to be wrong.
Good to see Austin get a couple of homers and to see our bats come alive at these road ballparks.
I’ll be super disappointed if we don’t have a totally revamped ballpark next year.
Austin seems to be kind of a stoic dude, but I like him. I’m trying to come up with a look alike for him.
Kind of looks like a younger Matt Dillon or maybe the bad ass side of Jim Carrey in Me, Myself, and Irene.
too bad my man, you’re missing some exciting ball
Over/Under on total 3 point attempts tonight, Flav?
My guess is over whatever you say…
What do they usually take? 60? 70? I’ll set the o/u at 80.5 and see if you’ve got the sack to take THAT over! Wahoo! Let’s fucking GO!!!!!!!!
I’m in!
Is this a “gentlemen’s bet” or what?
Bell is athletic. And clueless. That’s why he doesn’t play.
If ever he needs to get a clue, it would be tonight to find some focus…
Ex Giant Aubrey Huff weighing in with his special brand of stupid. Personally I think athletes should be more involved in political life but that’s just me.
https://tinyurl.com/yyfek3bh
Huff doesn’t seem to understand the racism that Trump exudes still to this day. Trump spent years trying to get people to believe that Obama wasn’t eligible to be president, and therefore not really president. Trump’s political career has racism as its foundation, and has continued with it from there. Why would athletes of color ever forget that?
Nothing says “Im a real man” like a 18 paragraph of whining under a picture of a bowl of mayonnaise..
True dat Kat.
Hopefully someone responded with “OK, entertain me, bitch. Go out to second base and go crazy. Be sure and pack your nose before you go.”
And btw..When does a “Real man go around wearing a thong”?
where the hell’s Pawlie to praise the pun in the headline?
and I bet Huff understands and accepts trump’s racism — just a real man standing up for other real men who want to buy assault rifles to defend themselves against the dark people who want to cut off their balls.
looks good, but it’s rotgut, right? infamous 20s bootlegger Joe Kennedy told each of his four sons that if they avoided alcohol until after they turned 21 he’d give them each $1 million — a lot of money back then. Only Teddy failed.
Look for Teddy to make some news this summer – the 50th anniversary of Chappaquiddick.
Other “golden” anniversaries: Moon, Manson, Woodstock, Mets, Altamont…
There was surprisingly little fanfare here for the Jets 50th SB anniversary in January.
Just kinda came and went…
One of the networks showed a new Chappaquiddick documentary the other night. I only caught the last part of it, so I don’t know how well done it was.
Altamont will be a big deal around here
The Joel Selvin book about Altamont is very good and definitive. I was never a fan of his writing for the SF Chronicle, but that book is very good.
1. Joe Panik (L) 2B
2. Stephen Vogt (L) C
3. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Mac Williamson (R) RF
6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
7. Tyler Austin (R) LF
8. Steven Duggar (L) CF
9. Dereck Rodriguez (R) P
Look at Bochy, going all “catcher batting second.” It’s a brave new world.
Totally agree on the Dubs and made a similar comment…I even think they seriously should have left Draymond at home because any implosion by him tonight in an essentially meaningless game could be enough to get him thrown out in a Game 7….
These days they would call that “bad optics”.
Years ago, they would say it “looks horseshit”…
My only political statement will be that for being a “racist” we have all-time lows for Black and Hispanic unemployment….
And a big growth in white supremacist hate groups and hate crimes.
I have ties to the Fla panhandle. It’s full of racists; always has been. Trump goes there when he needs to hear the roar of an approving crowd — of racists. His “base.”
Yes.
A little trivia to distract you from your pre-game jitters:
Pablo Sandoval, Juan Uribe, Bengie Molina and Willie McCovey all accomplished this rare feat in a Giant uniform.
Do you know what it is?
Ate an entire buffet in one sitting???
led the league in sac flies one year? (sheer guess, but Bengie definitely was a big sac fly hitter)
I looked it up. I’m not even close.
And when Biden becomes the Dem nominee, let’s not overlook his past racism…
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968
Jalen Rose discussing Warriors on pre-game:
“This year it becames KD’s team”
I think that’s 21 3s with 9 minutes left in first half. hmmnn…on pace for?
Bell sighting–block on Harden at one end and a dunk at other. D’antoni has to be flipping out. curry is john starks dumb tonite and they are still up 6.
I like that Giants LU too. Pillar gets day off, he and Pablo available to PH off bench.
38 3-point attempts at half — Dubs 18, Rockets 20.
I’d bet both lungs and the mortgage this goes under 80.5
Curry only has 3 of them, so you know that’s gonna change especially if he gets hot.
Re Loo’s trivia: Is it hitting 2 HRs, one a grand slam, in the same inning?
Close enough, Mac. It’s just hitting 2 HRs in an inning.
I must really be shot – I probably saw 3 of them and don’t remember them at all…
That was one of the dumbest halves of ball I’ve seen Curry play. Stoopid ass fouls and passes. He gets doubled, but he doesn’t have to help the Rockets. Cook actually outplayed him…
Yet another dumbass Curry pass…
Mario Soto was awesome. This guy is fun to watch though wild as he was not a comfortable AB.
Amy stfu and let us watch the game pls.
Every team has their “in-game reporter” now. It’s a thing. I don’t need it.
Way to go, Austin.
4 unearned runs. That’s a rough start.
Another dumbass play by Curry. WTF is wrong with him??? He’s playing like he had some magic mushrooms before tipoff…
57 thru 3 quarters.
the kid is struggling after the first, but man Giants D sure isn’t helping him.
the two errors, by Austin and Crawford, were terrible. wtf is wrong with Crawford?
Still, does anyone really care about earned runs now? Tonight’s debacle isn’t as crazy as Bumgarner giving up a grand slam but no ERs, but tonight’s pretty bad. FIP isn’t really much better, far as I can tell.
Gotta Hand it to the Dubs. They are in this game after 3Qs, despite Curry playing like crap and Draymond on bench w 4 fouls. Klay has done Welle. Iggy taking too many Jumpers…
I can’t think of any nba player I’d rather have come up a loser than Chris Paul. What a d-bag…
Dubs look gassed…
63…
Need a Couple Of Klay 3s, that would be nice…
What was that about Curry?
Screw the game. Did you see that chick’s crotch just now in row one?
Maybe Harden did.
Klaaaayyyyyyy !!!! …
Curry hit an unreal 3 !!! Finally…
Iguodala’s inability to hit FTs is infuriating. I know, I know what he adds. But jeezus.
Final: 77
Warriors get it done!
One of the greatest Dubs wins. Ever…
thank God. I get to keep both lungs and the house. What a win. Truly one of their best ever considering everything. If you’re Houston you literally have to blow it up. If they couldn’t beat them tonight…how many times this gonna happen?
If you DVRed it check out the chick next to Beyonce with 1:16 left.
Don’t you guys know how to watch a game?
Is this her? She seems nice.
Finally a clean hit. Castillo does have no hit stuff fastball at 98 and killer change up he spots perfectly at shoe tops at 88.
K&K compared him to prime Lincecum. Good comparison.
Heart of fucking champions!!!
The cream as always rises to the top!
Never under estimate the “Will of a Champion”
Dubs have it the Rockets never will!!!!
Quite a night for Austin: 3 Ks and an error that resulted in 4 unearned runs.
Take that victory San Dawg:)
Chris Paul can eat dirt, baby !…
Harden’ll get all the blame…
I don’t know why Harden should get all the blame,Paul is the one that’s an overated chump that flops and whines and gets 12-14 pts a game from a supposed superstar BS.Those point totals don’t cut it in the playoffs, only Harden works his tail off which I respect just can’t stand the guy, but Paul even less..
The reds flew into the Bay Area jet-lagged and got no hit by the a’s (although Fiers did pitch a great game). I think the time the reds have spent here allowed them to recuperate and acclimate.
Of course, the Giants came into the game tonight still reeling from playing in a blizzard a mile up in the atmosphere.
Dubs are kryptonite for the Rockets.
With KD out, Dubs can focus on playing top notch D and they’ll be fine…
Belt’s annual injury is a knee this season.
D’Antoni lost this one in first half. curry was flat awful dumb fouls bad passes and missing everything from lay ups to float shots to 3s. Meanwhile Bell and Livingston are dunking and Looney is finishing spin moves. rockets should have been up by 10. Then once Curry’s shots start going in, game plan goes out the f-ing window.