Bring On LA
I don’t care what anyone says, this goes a long long way….
Can you win without chemistry? Documented, yes.
But it stands to reason that your team is also better with it.
We have the best record in baseball, a candidate to start the All Star game going for us tonight and a team that strokes itself collectively to itself.
So, fuck the Dodgers, fuck ’em straight to hell.
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Speaking of L.A….one of the ways LeBron loses people: he posted a video on social media of his winning shot against the Warriors. Posting his own video is just weak. Can’t respect that dude sometimes.
It was “Love Child” by The Supremes.
A very worthy successor…
Great trivia question!
Well said Flav start of this series. Fuck em hard….whaaattttt???
Yes! Straight to hell with ’em! GO GIANTS!
good to see guys (Unc, Xoot’s son) are going. think crowd limit is 10 thou–would be cool to hear if fans can fill yard that much. No more pumped in noise/cardboard.
Nice story from Maria Guardado on mlb.com site on SF signing OF Braden Bishop, older brother of Hunter, and putting him on 40 man to play at Sac. Hunter is out with shoulder injury and not currently playing for AA Eugene.
Sac lost 3-2. Thairo hit HR #4, Beede went 2 2/3 0 runs 2 hits 4 BBs. Santos got blown save and L, giving up 3 hits and 3 runs in 1 inning. Obviously still working through some issues.
Is it possible that the Grave Duggar has taken on some version of a leadership role?
So, where is Rooster and all the dodger trolls?
Fuck the Bums! BEAT LA!
In fairness, Chi, the Roooster did not appear here last year to gloat about the title.
Unless I missed it…
Good point. I don’t recall seeing him then, either Loo.
Ahhhhh. I love that word ‘chemistry’. It has been the theme of this team in ’10, ’12 and ’14 while the rest of baseball scratched their heads asking themselves ‘what happened’ . It is now 7 years later and the root of Giants success is about to bloom again tied to the chemistry of a team with April laughable odds to make it to the big top. So, as LA thinks they have their ‘mojo again’, they visit the leaders of the West and surely must be asking themselves if they are heading into something they can’t understand and whether there is something missing in their framework for true success.
Maybe half of these thoughts are coming out of my ass; but the rest is out of my heart for a team that is showing me what they are made of.
The only thing that saddens me is that the pandemic cut off the life of Finnerty’s in NYC and I could only imagine the fun of being in that environment if they were still functioning. I envy all you who are in the world of SF at this very moment.
Great post, team attitude and heart can take a team very far. Go Giants
Awesome post. Agree on the chemistry thing.
And I am bummed about Finnerty’s, too. I hope they are able to re-open at some point, and believe the owners left the door open to such a possibility.
Commercial real estate in NYC must be awful cheap these days.
Seems like people are dying to get out and have some fun.
It could happen…
Ms. Guardado mentioned in column on Bishop bros Giants now have 11 OFs on 40 man, including recently acquired Tauchman (without options) and Braden apparently is capable of playing CF.
So fuck LA,Fuck them all the way to Hell!!!
That’s so damm true, they will always be the most hated team in Giants history!!
Giants have 3 top 10 pitchers in National League, who the hell could of predicted that?
Wood and Gausman have to be front runners for CyYoung, such a great story especially Wood who you know wants to go out and kick his former team asses tonight.
Great article about Gausman having 2 pitches his Fastball and Splitter rated in top 10 value among all pitchers in baseball.They’re going to have to open up the wallet to sign this ACE, but he’s worth it with the stuff he has..
Disco another great story, he reminds me of Voglesong, just a hard ass fierce competitor that gives u everything he’s got! Go Giants send a statement to this Candy Ass Dogpile team starting tonight!!
Xoot, are you going tonight? Would love to meet up and buy you a beer.
I’m not going, Chuck. Just my kid. Look for him LF-line club level — he has an orange jersey with the name “BEAT LA” on the back. He’s a friendly guy.
Oh, I’ll find him. What’s his name? We are in View box 326 or some shit. Prices are craay, but hey, haven’t been to a game since the Flap overdrive game. Bleachers were $100.00 on some sites. And the fucking nets on the 1st level were bad, now they are ridiculous.
see below, Chuck
Yep, it would be sweet to take this series. Got to give notice that we are for real. The pen has to be on their game.
Gonna be a cold windy night it looks like.
Have fun, Charlie. Tip one for me, brother. Go Giants!
Oh yeah! Will do. Got to spank these fucking bums!!
Joey Bart was pulled after 5 innings yesterday for Sacramento.
Casali drilled twice yesterday the second flush on the elbow. Wonder if he gets the callup today?
Well, the Giants are now a team that hits HRs, strikes out a lot, and has pitchers that strike out the other team a lot. It had to be done to compete in today’s version of baseball.
One of the keys this weekend will be for the Giants pitchers to not walk a lot of guys. They need to be aggressive and let the chips fall where they may. If they nibble all weekend, the Dodgers will walk a lot, and it will be hard for the Giants to win. Even with the changed dimensions and characteristics, the ballpark can still used by pitchers to advantage.
On a radio broadcast recently, Miller mentioned that the Giants have the 3rd highest percentage of runs scored by HR in either the NL or MLB, I can’t remember which. The number was 51% at that time.
Yeah, they hit some big time homers yesterday but they also scattered a bunch hits all over the field and took quite a few walks, that has to piss pitchers off to no end. Nickel and dime em till they crack
Gotta believe the Grave Duggar starts over the Sock Man tonight and will join Dick & Yaz in the OF.
Doesn’t that make sense?
Tauchman at leadoff hasn’t worked too well, maybe he gets a shot. so far, what has happened with him is he has a nice game and gets OPS up to .800, then goes back into a 2-11 slump and K’s a lot then it’s back under .700. At some point at least one of the current 7 OFs (or someone in minors) will become expendable for pitching help.
Tongiht may be a quick affari with Bauer and Wood going. Neither walk many and both are pitching extremely well right now.
Del Crandall died earlier this month at 91. One of my earliest baseball memories was his GW hit in the 23 inning game at Shea in ’64…
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196405312.shtml
The facial expressions on some of the old cards are classic.
That’s the expression I have when somebody tells me The Office is a funny TV show.
And that is obviously a Milwaukee Brave uniform he’s wearing…
Yeah, zum, I saw the US version of the Office twice, I think, Just by accident.
Like you and Del, I missed the comedy somehow. Never saw it again.
Maybe the original UK version was better. Ricky Gervais is pretty out there, but he’s funnier than Steve Carrel, IMO, and has some pretty spot on social commentary sometimes in his jokes. I saw Carrel in The 40 year old Virgin movie. Meh…
thanks, love these. Remember Crandall from all those years with Braves. In these type of games there are always some guys who have awful nights–notice Mays 1-10, Mets Cannizzaro 1-9 Mateo 0-6 etc.
I listened to this whole game and tried to keep score, just went on forever.
Loo is right about uni too.
Well said Flav start of this series. Fuck em hard….whaaattttt???
Perry with 10 innings of shutout relief, 7 for Mets Larry Bearnarth. 3 different Mets went 2 – 10, including couple good hitters Jim Hickman and Frank thomas. Giants struck out 14 times in 23 innings over 7 hours…didn’t they strike out 17 couple days ago vs. Reds? ah different era
If I happen to see “beat LA’ on a uni, what is your son’s name, Xoot?
David
You can prattle on about how much the Dodgers suck but they’re going to ruin the Giants season this weekend and sweep them right into Frisco Bay! Go Blue!
Greetings from Chipower9!
iirc the bums came to SF and swept three games in the middle of the 2012 season. That was a full season, a true season, a real season though.
Sock Man starts over the Grave Duggar.
Maybe he’s had some success vs. Bauer if someone ambitious feels like checking…
1. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
2. Buster Posey (R) C
3. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Alex Dickerson (L) LF
7. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
8. Mike Tauchman (L) CF
9. Alex Wood (R) P
Jazz Hands running in 7th at Santa Anita. Had a great season here, really cool player
6th wound up a DH between horses ridden by Flavien Prat (1/5 fav) and apprentice Emily Ellingwood (2-1).
Uribe hit 23 HRs here in 2010–could Crawford do that? Don’t think any IF since has hit that many.
If you go by George Kontos prediction ( I don’t) he’s predicting Crawford,Posey& Belt will all hit 30 Homeruns..
Sure enough 9-2 choice Jazz Hands goes wide in stretch and runs down leaders to win on Turf, ridden by Mario Gutierrez.
Nice hit willieD! Wish I’d seen this earlier! Beginner luck plays are to be honored and bet with both fists
The Marlins might be wearing the ugliest uniforms in history…
I was trying to decide which Dodger, past or present, is my least favorite. I get a sense of utter disdain as I go through this exercise. Is it Joc? That Palo Alto fuck, is it Justin Turner aka Justin McTurner, is it Puig wagging that obnoxious tongue, Kershaw with his ridiculous windup and satisfying tendency to choke? Kirk Gibson, who I had to watch to my idiot college roommate jizz all over creation in 1988 when he hit that homer?
I really loath all of them. I look forward to this game tonight with our good guys playing inexplicably well. Let’s see Wood shove some up their ass. Go Giants!!!!!!
This post has nearly everything pasalon. you truly are a showman with an innate sense for the timing of content genius. I’ll be noodling about your queries till game time. Hope I don’t get so distracted I miss first pitch!
Also, fuck Steve Garvey and Ron cey with every fiber of my being. They are the worst.
My reflex without overthinking it is Garvey…
I’m sure I’ve told the story of my well deserved pre-game ejection from Shea Stadium for a drunken, vile, profane laden tirade directed at Cey who was actually a Chicago Cub at the time.
Not terribly proud of it now…
Lol “my well deserved pre game ejection”
How many fans do you think have gotten themselves tossed during BP?
Mine is a tie between Peronowski, Drysdale, and the whole 88 team.
I think Perranoski’s ’63 season was every bit as good as Phil Regan’s famous “vulture” season of 1966…
He used to just kill us. i hated seeing him come it
in
Fucking penguin who’s your padre and check Marin infield pissed me off for years
Cheech
I’m not sure who my most disliked Dodger is over the years, but Muncy has put himself in contention.
My blues buddy sent me a link, the great Swampers Muscle Shoals drummer Roger Hawkins passed Wed. at 75.
Somewhere Darrell Porter is laughing at the game I coaxed him into. 5 rbi night.
And Orel Sax of course
Hey Loo speaking of ejection I read that Del Crandall article further and it said the Braves flew in Del’s parents to Boston to watch his major league debut at catching.Seems his parents just sat down in their seats when Del got ejected by the homeplate umpire by arguing balls&strikes! You can bet his parents were both embarrassed and then pissed at him to do something that crazy in there first game ever..
*how many fans have gotten themselves tossed during BP?”
Somewhere in the early 2000s it may have been the first year the ballpark opened I went to a game and was really giving it to Jose oquendo (one of the Cardinal coaches at the time) behind their dugout before the game started. His head shot up and he pussily pulled the cops over and started pointing to me and I just threw my hands out and said “what what???” The cops did nothing and oquendo walked meekly into the dugout.
was really sad to see supremely annoying Hershiser as a Giant in 98.
Hanley Ramirez was atop list for awhile
Couldn’t stand Don Drysdale the head hunter.
Still to this day that goes back to 1968,I remember when he was going after the streak of shutout innings which was in the 50’s plus.The game was at Dodger stadium and the Bums had a 1-0 lead going to the ninth.Giants load the bases with no outs,Drysdale hits catcher Dick Dietz with a pitch and the shutout streak is over.But nooooo freaking I’m on the take/payroll Harry Windlestead (sp but who care he’s an a- hole) declares Dietz didn’t try and get out of the way of the pitch.That shit was never called back in those day, but this time it is?? The Giants never scored losing 1-0, Teflon Don ends up with consecutive shutout streak intact, and I cursed as any 12 year old would of and to this day I will curse all Dodgers till the day I die! Fuck LA
Free game of the day on MLBTV.COM…
Inexplicably not the top game on MLB Network, instead it’s the thrilling Padres-Mariners game.
That Blackfoot slider has been legal for Wood all year long so far.
Back foot
Lethal..fuck my spelling lol
I forgot about Bob Welch but I hated him as much as any of em.
Davey Lopes always was a dick..
And Garvey the ultimate sleaze all..
He’s the only player I remember who never got his uni dirty.
Matter of fact if he did have to slide the dirt would only end up on the stripe of his pants.
Shit.
Looked like same location as pitch Betts doubled on.
Slowest stretch of pitching by Wood all year cost him..
Bauer’s schmuck act was tiresome a long time ago.
Dubs in trouble.
Yaz to Belt!
Was Belt on the bag?
Ha ciol play 9-3 putout
Yeah fuck you Bauer trying to hold up the game then gets thrown out at first base on what should of been a hit by YAZ LMAOOOO
Overtime.
Two walks, Giants should score at least one run
BauEr.
Wow. Jon Miller hates Bauer as much as we do. lol.
He was trying to give the Giants the lead!
Damm Dick pulls that and the are in the lead😫
Morant’s pretty good.
certainly good enough, on night they got jack from Valanciunas right from start.
meanwhile Griz about to eliminate GS.
Damm Dubs season is over down 5 with 5 seconds left 114-109
Hey Kuiper get clued in the Warriors game is over geez 🙄
Eat Shit Bauer what a 🤡
Why couldn’t the Giants hit his Fast ball, they even knew it was coming
Yep, frustrating.
the stickum gives it just enough movement
Yeah, the Giants have been missing and fouling off fastballs all night in the middle of the strike zone.
2 fucking hits
Toto, I don’t think we’re in Cincinnati anymore…
both cheapo too. Dickerson nubber past 3b, and Belt bloop in short LF.
They shot there wad yesterday…
Would you hit the Grave Duggar for Barrels vs. a righty?
Ask Kapler—he’s the one making decision to bench him.
not that Tauchman has done anything.
Tied for 1st now with the Padres.Hell all 3 teams have been smoking hot. Toughest division in baseball..
Padres are trouncing the hapless Mariners.
That was like watching nine Canalis trying to hit tonight.