Bay Bridge Series
I guess tonight qualifies as a big game. Bum toeing the rubber. Our *arch rivals* in the box. The haunting beat of the drums in the distance….
Runs will probably be pretty scarce tonight.
Pour one out for my homey Dick VanDyke whose name, while never uttered here before, shall never be uttered here in the future……
Most of these are just terribly unoriginal.
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https://giphy.com/gifs/tripping-van-BhtIo5MGc8Ir6
you know that comedic bastard did that in one take, too.
college football gets started with few games today yaha!
Z talking about Slater’s ability to play on IF…hmmnn. Hasn’t shown a lot of pop yet (esp at home) but he looks like much better hitter to me and can drive ball to opposite field too. I like him and he whacks LHP
He and Yaz might have me over valuing the ability to hit the other way for power. Fuck the shift. That’s what those guys say.
Astros took Verlander’s side of the argument with Detroit Free Press, no surprise I guess. V requested paper send someone else as their part of press corp. They refused so he said he’s not doing the presser with the guy in the room, Stros barred the door and wouldn’t let him in til after it was over.
As a blogger on yahoo wrote, they don’t have the right to decide who the paper sends. This guy is credentialed and approved and has a right to be in there per collective bargaining agreement. Disturbing, that a personal beef (related to the Mrs maybe?) allows team to decide who has coverage rights/who doesn’t.
Terrible precedent to set. I hope this has been nipped in the bud but it’s happening at the white House so we’ll see where this goes.
Minor lines report: Dubon 3 for 5 with BB scores 5 in 11-5 W over Pads PCL. He’s hitting .341 at Sac.
Gerber 4-6 38th double 83 rbis
Sac is in first place btw.
Ramos another 0-4 3 Ks batting .214.
Bart homers, his 3rd.
Um, big discussion on MCC site Aug 22 blog post on what Giants should do with Pillar for next season. Last year of arb eligibility probably looking at $7 mil ish. Lot of disagreement from bloggers over there re: value going forward, who can replace him in CF and the $$$. Also as a fan fav, energy and clubhouse presence
for 7 mil of course you keep him, that’s not even debatable. We’re still in a re-build, he can help with the bridge to the other side for 7 million peanuts.
They would be insane not to keep Pillar.
On the other hand, Gennett looks like a goner.
Panda…… who knows?
Is Gennett officially a disappointment to all of us? He’s pretty disappointing to me. I know he’s still basically coming back from injury, but he gets over-powered by a pretty good amount of the pitchers. Maybe next year is when he really comes back to form. Whoever gets him should get him for a minimal contract.
Solano is the keeper. Gennett? Meh.
2 ? I would have is who can you live without and who else can really play CF?
Reason Davis hasn’t been up yet revolves around whose place he takes if he’s gonna be in there a lot–Yaz Pillar Dick Slater have all hit ML pitching at certain level. There’s also Shaw and Gerber (who played CF last night in Sac) both of whom have done pretty well in hitter friendly PCL. Would Z/new mgr (and/or GM) go all in with kids in rebuild or would it be better to have one solid vet at least for another season of control?
And again, argument is 2 sided–Pillar numbers for certain categories aren’t great, and more Longo level. The fact that he leads team in certain other ones is kind of like the argument against Belt in years previous–it only shows how crummy team is and less about how he would rank league wide.
Not to keep harping on this weekend’s uniforms, but….the players have to be thinking “What the heck? We signed off on THIS?” To be fair, in the evening games, under the stadium lights, the black uniforms seem to look pretty cool. But those white uniforms, oh man.
The white helmets look like big pumpkin seeds to me…
Zumiee: As far as the thing from yesterday, why don’t we just:
Criminy, I though Dick van Dyke had died, then I read last night’s posts.
DvD is almost a hero to me. Dude is in his 90s and is still sharp as a tack.
He just was in the Mary Poppins remake, and danced on a table.
One of my favorite all time TV shows, DvD, mainly because of him. The other players were good, but he was the main guy. (though they may have had the worst child actor of all time playing his son).
Great physical comedy skills. He was Jim Carrey before Carrey.
Married some years ago a woman about 40 years younger. Nice move.
He was not a dancer, no history of it, but did all his own stuff in first Mary Poppins, including Step In Time, one of the great dance scenes in movie history. He does some moves there that are incredible for someone with no history of dance training.
Every interview I’ve seen him, he’s one of the most positive attitude people I’ve ever heard–
Maybe because the guy was a raging alcoholic for years, including when he made the DvD show, but beat it.
Long live DvD, the original “the Dick”…
lol, when I made the *pouring one out* comment I was wondering if that would get misunderstood.
It was, but what’s done is done…
Yeah, it got me. I was ready to get a grieve on, but googled and came up with nothin’, so being relieved, I started looking around for clues…
knew you were too sharp to get hoodwinked by this for long
Posey’s nickname is Hum Buss? Who the hell calls him Hum Buss? He already has a nickname: Buster. I think I’ll just stick with Yaz as the only one I’d use in a conversation…..
For Buster, how about “Over Paid” or “Nearly Done” ?…
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Fire alarm at San Jose International. Terrible example for all, but I hid in the shitter versus evacuating the building as the PA system instructed. No way, no how, I was going through TSA security again. Joined by many travelers.
Makes me wonder if we would evacuate if a shooter was reported via PA. So common place now, I might have to hear actual shots to react. lqtm
Not fun, Steve. I think I told you, after this summer having several domestic flying debacles, I’m avoiding flying in the US from now on. Was going to fly from Phoenix to SF next week before my flight back to Vietnam, but I’m taking a few days and driving up. Asia, and international, no problem, but when I’m in the US, I’m becoming John Madden. Trains, buses, cars only….
I hear ya Paul. Ironically, SJ is usually no drama.
Yeah.. hope your delays aren’t too horrible.
No delay thankfully
If I was a player, I’d pick my nickname to be MLBRobsU. Or do you think FUComish would fly? ManFried continues to piss me off with gimmicks like this, hopefully someone stains their all white uni with tobacco juice in a strategic spot.
Loo, great Brooklyn sign! Sounds great!
Cubs losing to the Nats 5-0. Again, sadly funny.
Nats look like they can give Doghairs a tussle, if it gets that far in the post season…
That Verlander thing.
One thing that does piss off fans is the sense of entitlement that some of these long term, big money players seem to develop. Verlander makes more in one game than that reporter does probably in 4 years. What gives Verlander the right to deny this guy the ability to do his job? Nothing. And, it violates the CBA in some way. MLB should fine or discipline Verlander to the greatest extent possible under the CBA. The other players conspiring to protect Verlander should be disciplined as well…
On the white unis, at least put the players’ nicknames in dark letters so we can read them.
All the nicknames I’ve had throughout my life: Biggity Big, Big Flavor, Mount Shady, Big Salad, Smalls….there are probably others but those are the ones I recall
As a young child I was called Boogie by family members sometimes. My Friday night softball teammates called me E.
I have a friend that called me Klondike for a few years, after an epic camping trip where we got lost in Kings Canyon for a few hours after we managed to go off a trail. Fortunately we found the teal again.
Found the trail again. Autocorrect got me on that one.
1. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
2. Stephen Vogt (L) DH
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Alex Dickerson (L) LF
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
7. Kevin Pillar (R) CF
8. Scooter Gennett (L) 2B
9. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
Posey in the 3-hole, everybody’s favorite thing.
Answers my 8:43 question.
Start working on the plaque…
““Woof,” Joe Maddon said when asked about the Cubs’ all-white Players’ Weekend uniforms. “I’d just like to know who said this was a good idea.””
“Terry Francona: “We look like morons.””
Very cool!
Bummer on Pablo, You all know that ruins Bochy’s last carnival act having Panda play every position on the field. I would of gotten a kick out of him playing 1 inning in CF trying to track down line drives in the gap..
Were they really planning to do that, Kat or was it just something you were hoping to see?
Loo..No he had plans of doing that is what I understood once they were out of it, which is now..
Do you think Posey would have a mental breakdown ( think Anthony Perkins in the Jimmy Piersall story) if he saw his name in the batting order like 7th are 8th and grab a bat in the clubhouse and start destroying Bochy’s desk?
It has nothing to do with Posey. It’s all Bochy. He thinks it will be embarrassing to Posey.
Of course, the number one goal should be to win the game.
One reason I won’t cry a river at Bochy’s retirement…
Yaz with that really big glove. 🙂
Our 4 gazillion-aire geezers (Posey ,Belt, Craw, Longo) should automatically be penciled in 5-8 in the line-up in whatever order…
After callups on 9/1 they should be penciled for the pine…
I think pine caskets would be insulting. Mahogany is appropriate for the 3 beauties they contributed to. Umm . . . Oh wait, you meant the bench?????
I actually like the Giants uni all black with a touch of white, might even make Moronta look slimmer 😂..
All white A’s are putrid like an old time ice cream truck vendor..
What’s up with Yaz wearing one orange and one blue shoe?
The Colts are so fucking stupidly run. They ruined one of possibly the best QB’s of all time by never putting a fucking competent offensive line around him. They deserve to be left in the lurch, fuck them.
I suspect Luck comes back after sitting out season. Tha Colts are as stupidly run as a team can get. Irsay is a fucking junkie owner.
I doubt it Chuck.He’s made plenty of dinero , just got married,wants to travel the world etc..
He’s had so many injuries,compliments of a terrible run organization, “his wife is probably saying get out while their’s still some lead left in your pencil and you can use it”!
Naaah, he wants to play. Just not for the Colts.
Nicknames? Chasbo, Wa, Chazwa, CB buddy and my high school fave, crash n burn.
Funny thing. If the Giants dumped Posey, Belt, Longo, and Crawfish, they’d have to eat ~$200 mill.
And, oc, uncle chuck.
Don’t forget Chuckles, courtesy of Twinnie…
a classic
Jesus, Belt.
Jimmy G looked good, though.
Gawd, the A’s announcers are hideous.
You can’t get the game on the local NBC affiliate? Miller and Estes.
Oh thank God. No I didn’t know. It wasn’t on Comcast so I thought it was just the A’s guys.
Craw goes to left field! Been waiting 5 years for that.
Longo! Anyone watching?
just catching some on my phone–people over for dinner who don’t care about baseball so I’m trying not to be an ass.
Guy has .780 OPS and plays a good 3b. He has 3 less HRs than Pillar in 140 fewer ABs and almost exact same slugging pct. the combo of him and Sando was perfectly fine this season.
what the Giants need to do is find some one who can play the sando role and fill in at multiple IF positions. the idea any of the kids can take Longo’s spot and put up those kind of numbers is far fetched.
I don’t give rats ass what he makes–only the quality of play at his position.
It ain’t his money, it’s his inability to stay on the field.
Elvis Costello sang: “I was living in a black and white world….”
WTF I saw a Longo hit score Dick now it’s still 2-2. Am I having a cache issue or did a call get reversed?
Gus don’t got it tonight.
Profar the guy hitting .207 doubles off Gustave and scores the lead run. Now 3rd hit of the inning and Bochy has seen enough Nice job.
Chuck–Luck is the most honest, straightest shooter that has probably ever played the game. He’s done.
Our gas-can bullpen these days.
Puk yeah!
Dick ignites the team again. The team MVP.
KP!
wow giants abuse Use More of Petit and the guys who follow him wild pitch walk and 2 run double from Pillar 4 run rally.
DJ BC Raw!
Melvin Melttdown of his pen continues Craw with another hit/rbi
6 hits walk wild pitch awesome
Man, rough night for Yaz.
Holy Shit!!!!!!!!!!
I BELIEVE!
Can’t say I saw this coming! Vogt early Vogt often!!
Boom what an inning
Puk was fucked by us, but now were “gang banging” all their pitchers. Nice!
Flav has some good rewinding to catch up on.
Even Hum Buss almost joined the fun.
Giants put up a snowman vs. the snowmen.
Twitter guy following Susan Slusser (A’s beat reporter) calls tonite unis “Spy vs. Spy.”
I just can’t get over the white helmets
Oh boy.
Gonna walk ’em right back into the game
El Stupido.
Great come back job by the Giants!
Smitty!
Ballgame!
Where is Van Damme????
We need the dancing “Muscles from Brussels”
8 runs 1 bomb and a beauty at that. Getting on base does matter, lot of contributors. A’s fans lamented Melvin didn’t bring in big guns with lead in 8th. Hey they have everything SF wants–young team in contention lot of bombs throughout lineup tremendous IF and SF walked in here and raked them. Awesome
5 back behind 4 teams for the last WC.
The Cub series realistically ended it but there’s still a shot, I guess…