House of Cards
With the Cardinals in town, good ol’ Daniel is back and he’s created a *guessing game* of sorts, I encourage you all to fill this out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecXxkWb7-ZksJ594MottSjFgGdLYZda4CR8jCfpnExm42Jsw/viewform
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Loo’s contest is ending soon, please enter it. Guess where Bum and Smith will end up and a tiebreaker guess of a 3rd player’s destination/fate.
I mIght have caught that Yaz ball if I had this mitt . . .
The pisser here is this team usually goes into “we can’t hit at home” mode and gets blanked when they return. Never have I seen a team with such a mind-fuck of their own creation. A home-field disadvantage.
I’ll be surprised if we don’t get swept.
Is Cardinal Daniel offering us gift cards????
I don’t think he’s building a computer…
Maybe this:
Are maybe a Mike Matheny get out of town card…
I saw that AJ Pollack will be back with the Flodgers. With the way those a-holes are going, is he expendable? Who here would trade Will Smith and Watson for Pollack, who has 4 years and $41 mill left on his contract.
I would hate trading anything of value to them but I would do this deal and get a legit lead-off…
Way too much for a guy like Pollack who’s always injured 🤕And Fuck LA I would never trade with them unless it’s Pom for Bellinger 😂
Agree with Kat, why too much for him
Never feel that great when the Pompadour takes the mound, so 2 outta 3 sounds about right to me.
6 back in the WC, we are in the passing lane and Cinci is next.
really interested to see if the Giants offense can keep it going tonight. They are now a week removed from the bounce they got from the Flap glare. Nothing shines forever. Sometimes I think Bochy took “it’s better to burn out than to fade away” way too literally……
Its pyromania…
anyone see this? Hilarious
My brother was talking about this. I’m up for anything to deal with the seagull problem. How about some kind of high pitched sonic noise to drive them away—Cuban embassy style?
In my book, there are 4 things about the Giants i find embarrassing:
1. Seagull situation
2. Ballpark dimensions
3. Bullshit Bullpens
4. Duane Kuiper as one of our main announcers
Poor misunderstood seagulls.
Loo I hate to do this but I’m changing my picks. Bum to the Twins, Smith to the Red Sox, Watson still going to LA
No problem. You’ve got 48 hours, boss.
I’ll update my spread sheet…
I’m contemplating a slightly outlandish change to my picks, too…
Bum goes to Astros, Smith goes to Red Sox and Watson goes to the twins
You’re on the sheet…
If I say so myself, i think this is one of the more fascinating pools we’ve had.
In addition to Flavor’s gift card I have something very cool for the winner if he nails the Bum-Smith double.
C’mon, snarkk, kat, blade, dirt, willedav, banh bao paul, james, koko, wilco, irish kev, chi, etc.
Let’s get going…
All flappers should be entering Loo’s contest. Besides not having anything better to do it is borderline disrespectful to ignore the contest.
Way to scold those fuckers!
1. Brandon Belt (L) LF
2. Buster Posey (R) C
3. Pablo Sandoval (S) 1B
4. Alex Dickerson (L) RF
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
7. Kevin Pillar (R) CF
8. Joe Panik (L) 2B
9. Drew Pomeranz (R) P
I’m late to the party commenting on this but I am beyond ecstatic that Bochy has finally started batting Belt first. It always made perfect sense, better late than never.
Old school geezers like me who grew up on Maury Wills, Lou Brock, etc are freaked out by it.
Much like the Yankees eschewing(?) their tradition of accumulating lefty bats, a big clod leading off is still a little hard to grasp…
only vs. RHP, but yes good to see. Maddon bats Kyle Schwarber leadoff.
On this day July 5 1947 Larry Doby pinch hit for Tribe, first Af Am player ever in the AL.
Don’t get me started…
Belt in LF hmmnn… see if Vanilla Triangle, Belt Longo Crawford (with LHP going) comes back to haunt them.
Loo, not sure if you caught this one, he put in on an old thread.
Cardinal70 said, on July 5, 2019 at 5:18 pm (Edit)
Flavor suggested I chime in on this one, so I’ll say Bumgarner to the Pirates (let’s get crazy!), Smith to the Twins, and Watson to the Cardinals.
Thanks Flavor, i didn’t see it. I’ll add Daniel on…
Watson to Philadelphia, Bum to the Brewers, Smith to Oakland. Are my picks unique?
they bring their own sense of mystery and intrigue.
Perfect!
Paul Revere and the Raiders sang victory song afterward.
I like the one of Washington crossing the tarmac.
OK Bum AND Smith to Twins
Watson to Brewers
More anthem agony.
One downside of going radio only…
God dang it I’ve told everyone I like Jose Martinez, since off season. Second pitch from Poms and he blasts it out of here no doubt. He ain’t making shit money either….arrggh he can hit in this yard!
look like everyone can tonite. Must have thought that was Lincecum out there.
Bomb-Bomb
Pom is not awesome.
He did well in Oaktown, maybe they’d take him for cash considerations or something.
$50.00 and a one-way bart ticket.
If things get worse in this game this evening, and somehow I suspect they will, consider this “film.” Very funny climate-change disaster movie. Steve Buscemi’s character wears a red hat bearing the slogan Keep America White Again, until he doesn’t. Iggy Pop and Tom Waits are terrific, as you’d expect.
According to Pavs, Golds now has 137 HRs here in SF.
Ole says the 3b and Pillar gets the ribbie and picks up Dick and Longo.
…and picks up Dick and Longo.
Getting the ribbie was a wise move on his part.
Bum to Brewers
Smith to Twins
Watson to Yanks
Super tie breaker: Longo back to Tampa (Giants eat 50% salary)
Pomzito is no fun to watch.
Loo, you got Asian Paul, a nice score. You’ve now spanned the globe AND gotten a Cardinal fan. How many that get you up to?
Now at 14 including Willedav who checked in.
DICK!!!
Earthquake! Where was the epicenter?
Thanks!
Pretty far from me, but I still felt it.
Dick.
Loo:
Bumgarner to Rays
Smith to Twins
Panik to Yanks
Boom.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/mediaviewer/rm1187325952
That’s a good movie. Very funny, with a creative story set during Nixon’s presidency.
Loo:
This is not a smart-aleck question: in the contest can one posit that either Bum or Smith or both do NOT get traded? How’s that for a tiebreaker, fuckwads*?
*in honor of Twinfan
Not as a tiebreaker, but you can put either (or both) of those guys as staying with Giants.
The tie breaker has to be a 3rd guy winding up on another team regardless of how….
i considered that route just for the low ownership angle but can’t see a scenario where both don’t get traded. They have to go.
Several years ago, I humiliated my then middle school aged son by reading this in public:
http://tinyurl.com/y665zdjm
Incredibly, it later became part of Kevin Bacon’s filmography.
Hey Loo—how about this–if someone nails the Exacta, you have to come out to a game at Oracle next year!
I meant Trifecta—-correct destinations for all 3 guys.
my guess is that until there’s some resolution with his cat he’s not going anywhere. But Loo in SF, man, that’s the dream, that’s the dream…..
Yeah, can’t leave my 3 legged diabetic cat..
we got 4 legged cats for days out here, you come out here I give you a cat. Book it.
that’s funny feline humor, Magnus
the kid 3b crushed that one.
There’s the cycle for Pummelranz.
my revised picks that supersede [note proper spelling] the previous:
Bumgarner STAYS
Smith STAYS
tiebreaker: Panik to Yanks
This bizarre pick is based on a shocking resurgence of the Giants before the trade deadline — shocking beyond reason and credulity. Plus, this dollop of strange optimism is penance to Blade to whom I emailed in June 2010 that the Giants were done for the year.
you mighta just fallen ass backwards into the sweet comfort of a $25 amazon gift card, my man. Hoes don’t accept this, by the way, at least I think they don’t who knows go ahead and try
hoes accept anything that can be traded, cashed in, transacted, pawned, purloined, faked, teased, filched, counterfeited, leased, or cheated with
Gregor Blanco is on the Syracuse Mets. Sad to say, he ain’t this year’s Manny Burriss. I was at Frontier Field in Rochester (great park) with my Adri and her bf (Father’s Day gift), and the former beloved White Shark looked lost offensively. Struck out twice, once looking, I recall. Couldn’t get bat on the ball. He looked the same in Syracuse several weeks ago. So, I better order his copy of WORLD SERIOUS fast.
A guy named Rymer Liriano CRUSHED a rocket homer, a laser that would’ve landed in the parking lot except that it hit the scoreboard, halfway to the top of the structure. BOMBED. And he threw a guy out at 3B from RF.
Loo if my math is correct, and believe me I’ve been running the numbers all afternoon, Kokonuts just hit your coveted 15 number. Yes?
That is correct, Flavor. People respond when you lay down the law.
Still hoping to hear from several regulars…Snarkk, Xoot, Kat, Dirt, WJ, Blade, Kev…
A 7.1 quake is 11x stronger than a 6.4?
Who the fuck figured that one out?
It’s more convoluted than a QB rating…
It’s like tennis: 15, 30, 40, game? What?
Great!
Bum to Braves
Smith to RSox
Dyson to Rockies…
Got it…
A Pom game is slow and lasts forever.
SF running into a good team tonight…
The pace of this game is slower than the movement of the tectonic plates that caused the earthquake.
Boch with the White Flag pairing of Melonhead and Dutch Oven Fire. Kuipo actually notes this has been a disappointing season for Oven Fire.
Thanks, Cap’t. Oblivious.
So the up to tonite light hitting Cards now have 12 hits 6 walks through 7. Of those 12, 2 400 ft plus bombs 2 loud triples that might have been bombs if they weren’t hit to deepest part of the yard, and a double.
Giants meanwhile have 6 hits 1 bomb from dick and 3 walks, none since first inning. should have knocked the SP out early. They used to say that about a lot of better SPs—get to them early or you wind up with nothing after they settle in.
Dodgers lost at home. That’s a rarity.
According to B/R these are Cards offensive stats/NL ranking coming in:
11th for BA and OB
12th for runs HRs OPS
13th for doubles and triples and slugging
and pitching staff (4th best in league for ERA) had given up 14 more bombs than they had hit
Sure liked what they saw off Pom and those who followed him too.
At least Flav and SD picked the right Friday night game for us to go to.
Still only a couple games out of the div lead in the Central. They’ll be a couple above .500 after this one…
Ray Black? One of our hologram pitchers I see.
He throws it in at 100.
It goes out of the Park at 107…
Outhomered 3-1.
Melanbust with another crap appearance, 1 frame, 3 hits, 2 earnies. Mercifully shortened by Bochy…
He’s a pitch-to-contact guy purchased by the Giants just as the juice ball era was starting. Bad timing. Even if he hadn’t been injured, it probably wouldn’t have worked out anyway.
Solid point, zum…