Binary Code Offense
What we all knew but were afraid to say has finally come to pass: The Grave Duggar stopped hitting and the entire offense went south along with him. Not sure what we can do about this but scoring 0 and/or 1 run over and over ain’t gonna get it done.
Either way, between WilcoJoe, MacDog and GH, the Flap representation was strong on the roadie. Stronger than those bats that’s for sure.
Macdog:
GH’s kids:
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MacDog and I did not deliver victories…sorry Flappers!!! I think they have lost last 6-7 games in a row in DC that I have been to:(
Love the throwback jersey on your older son, GH.
Gotta get the younger lad some swag!
Lookin good y’all. Mac, you look like you might be hanging at the CF brewpub in that pic.
Yep, right near a couple bars where you can hang out and watch the game, I liked that.
Kap seemed like he had one foot on tarmac yesterday. Leading off Tauchman was odd choice. His penchant for L/R lineup didn’t accomplish anything–Yaz had early double and Tauchman later hit best ball all game. for all talk of how patient they are and how many pitches they see, in 3 of 4 games Giants had zero walks and for series they hit .149.
More innings and 100 pitches for Cueto, who eventually left with sacks loaded for Alvarez to get GIDP, wasn’t good idea either. His AB down 5-0, an abrupt K leading off 6th inning, is indefensible.
Except for yesterday, pitching, even in pen game continued to shine. Deserved better fate if bats had woken up.
Great pictures, love to see young Giants fans. I don’t expect this team to stay down for long they are fighters.
Cool pictures. Way to represent, even though the Giant struggled. But realistically, your goal is to play .500 on the road. They did exactly that. Not tripping now, but definitely need to see the bats get going again, beginning tonight against the snakes.
Maybe they said this during the game, but that was the second straight start Cueto gave up 2 HRs to an opposing batter — Wisdom in loss to Cubs last week and Schwarber yesterday.
The second Schwarber HR was on an above the zone 95 MPH fastball, after a deflected infield hit that would have been an out and Cueto’s own error. Schwarber also hit one the previous game. Probably more to do with a hitter who happened to get locked in and guess right, like Wisdom. If Cueto can actually make 25 starts with a 93-94 fastball, I still think he’ll be a plus contributor for the season.
The odds of the Diamondbacks having losing streaks of 17 and 14 games in a single season can’t be very good. The chances that this is going to be an ugly week seem pretty good.
I think I’m being dragged to this joint on Saturday:
https://otherhalfbrewing.com/location/brooklyn-ny/
What is a guy who drinks stuff like Bud Light and nothing fancier than Guinness supposed to do?
If anyone can help it would be appreciated.
Just the letters IPA make me nauseous…
Not an ipa drinker either like most of the new generation kids are.
If I’m not having a mixed drink, I just switch it up with a Stella, Modelo, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale,Blue Moon you can add a slice of orange on the side and u might pass as a hipster lol 😂
Ask for a lager or a pilsner. Or a porter. Porters are Guiness-like, but stronger than Guiness.
It doesn’t look that easy.
Gotta be a hipster joint.
Nothing on the menu for old school slobs…
The Field Studies is your only hope. An awful, depressing menu. I’d down a couple of cocktails at home first.
I see it’s in Carroll Gardens. This might be the best of the Manhattan variations
https://punchdrink.com/recipes/carroll-gardens/
Yeah, I can enjoy some pale ales, but very very few IPAs. That place has 1100 fucking IPAs? Fuck ’em.
Walk in with a 40 of Schlitz Malt Liquor and tell ’em to kiss your ass. Colt 45 or Olde English 800 work as backups.
Do they still sell Country Club?
Great pics representing the Giants in enemy territory! Seems like we haven’t fared very well on the road Flappapaloozas though.
Giants have been on the road so much I wonder if they know where Oracle Park is located anymore.
Atleast they pulled out a split in this last road trip and didn’t play in Washington in August when your face melts off your skin( sorry GH,MacDog, Loo,PK ,Bozo and other east coasters) it just seems to oppressive to deal with that humidity and temp on a daily basis. I was in Boston once in August which I totally dug and went to Fenway for a night game and it still was 90 plus with 90 percent humidity then after the game slamming a few Samuel Adams down at midnight in Quincy Market and still sweating some and I’m not a sweater!
And then you can have crazy winters as well. Nice place to visit, but give me California I’m spoiled, “The weather’s best by government test”😎
Shout out to Ned Beatty, who passed away yesterday, for one of the most disturbing scenes ever put into a mainstream movie. I won’t grace the blog with that scene.
This scene from Network is great.
Yeah, didn’t know that was his film debut until I looked him up on IMDB.
Deliverance remains one of the most disturbing and provocative movies in the last 50 years.
All the actors in it were excellent, dealing with some tough material.
John Boorman made it, and some really good movies after. I liked “Hope and Glory”, re: London in WW II.
“Excalibur” set the standard IMO for Arthurian legend type movies…
A good fresh clean west coast double ipa (pliny the elder eg) always reminds me of my first sips of beer from my dad’s cold tin cans of Schlitz when I was two three years old. One of my earliest memories. I don’t know wtf I’d do with that hipster menu.
Pliny the Younger (a triple IPA) being the exception to my distaste for IPAs. Even the Elder is a little too bitter/hoppy for me.
I’d never stand in line for the younger, but one of my local joints served “an extra secret keg” of the younger one year and I just happened to stop in for an early lunch. Probably never taste it again.
Although a beer aficionado massage therapist I know told me, just before the pandemic hit, that RR brewing recently had doubled its size and its output — so who knows.
A couple places around the Creek had it and I was able to get it 2 years in a row without too much effort. 4-5 years ago we stumbled into Santa Rosa and wondered what the gigantic line was for. Got the story then that some people were waiting up to 9 hours for 2 10 oz. pours of the Younger.
I’m thinking, i LOVE beer, but not that much. Still and all it is excellent,
This popped up after the Network video.
Too bad the cameraman wasn’t 10′ further back.
This is a proper beer selection and menu
Click to access BackAbbey-Drinks-06.04.2021.pdf
How do they stock all that and keep it fresh? I want to see one of those summer concerts in a brewery that puts the stage and audience chairs in its cold storage warehouse.
This is a very, very busy place next to the Claremont Colleges. I’ve been skeptical of the importance of beer freshness after Budweiser cynically made such a big deal about it in their ads attacking imports. But then again I’m not much of a beer drinker.
I’d guess that most imports are fresher than bud and that bud goes bad faster too. Like corona
Yahoo story says Baffert is suing NY tracks over ban. Claims what they did is unconstitutional.
watched Stakes race yesterday at Santa Anita where his 2 horses in $100K Grade 3 race for 3 yr olds both got beaten at 1 1/16 on dirt.
Winner was Chosen Vron ridden by Umberto Rispoli who ran down leader and 2nd place finisher Defunded ridden by Abel Cedillo in stretch. Baffert’s other horse finished 3rd, way behind the leaders, and went off race fav at 7-5 with flavien prat aboard.
North Coast Brewing Company is one of my faves. In Ft. Bragg. Brother Thelonious, Old Rasuptin, and Scrimshaw are all excellent beers that aren’t IPAs.
I recently went to a microbrewery in my hometown ( they are really taking off here) with my daughter and her boyfriend. They had over 20 beers on tap from Pilsner’s, Lagers,IPA’s and the latest craze which I enjoyed were Sour Beers.They offered a 4 beer sampler of your choice for 18 bucks served on a beer flight tray they call it, and the beers are in a goblet that the stem fits perfectly in the wood tray to carry and they chalk on the tray the beer u just bought so u don’t forget which one u ordered.I had 1 Pilsner, and 3 different tasting sours that were excellent. They also had long bench tables outside ( individuals some with shade covers) and they have a food truck stationed in the back with a nice variety of food,hamburgers, chicken, pulled pork,hot dogs,garlic fries, salads etc, really makes a fun day..
Loo – I looked at the brewery menu. All IPAs except a Porter. Order the porter.
That is seriously douchey to serve 1100 IPAs and one porter.
Beer Baron on College in Oakland is actually a whiskey place with good flights. They used to serve a flight of Pappy Van Winkles for something like $75 bucks. Great with friends before dinner if you each get a flight. See which you prefer — 15, 20, or 23 year old. I think they might have cut back on that. They still sell shots of pappy though. $100 a pop for 23 yr old pappy.
I think I like Unca Chuck’s idea…
“a whiskey place with good flights.”
I accidentally read that as “fights” for a moment.
Hoyt looks and sounds a little like he could have been one of Ned’s tormentors. Wilhelm doesn’t hesitate a bit between pitches to get the grip right.
toward the end of Deliverance, when the survivors make it downstream and with joy and relief catch signs of civilization, including junked cars and other garbage along the river bank — that’s a very funny moment. James Dickey’s edge translated pretty well to the mainstream screen.
1. LaMonte Wade Jr (L) LF
2. M. Yastrzemski (L) RF
3. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
4. B. Crawford (L) SS
5. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
6. Mike Tauchman (L) CF
7. Curt Casali (R) C
8. Jason Vosler (L) 3B
9. Alex Wood (R) P
I never liked beer while in college. It was all American mega brewery stuff, tasted like crap to me.
MIller, Bud, Schlitz, PBR, etc. Out west here, we thought we were special ‘cuz we could get Coors, no problem.
Then I went first time to Europe, i.e., Germany in particular. This was after a few weeks in England, where I got used to the bitters. I walked off the night train at 6 a.m. into the Hauptbahnhof in Munich. Barely daylight, the station hadn’t started to hum yet. Working dudes were standing around tall, round small tables drinking liters of beer. I thought, shit, yeah, this must be Germany. After I put my backpack in storage, I came back, ordered a liter. One of the best breakfasts ever. A revelation. And, this was probably just Hacker Pschorr, a middle quality beer of one of the big 6 breweries in Munich. Paulaner and Augustiner are my favs of that bunch. Altogether, I’ve probably spent a year in Germany over several sojurns. The local dorf (town) biers, wherever they may be in the country, just the regular “helles” or light style brews, range usually from really good to mind blowing. Since then, I’ve never settled for shit beer. At Cal, I hooked up with a buddy to start making my own beer, first in a food grade garbage can and powdered yeast. This was in the early ’80s when Triple Rock just off campus was a brewpub pioneer. Those were the days. We even made a porter that got a silver at a local competition held over at Anchor Steam in SF. We still make beer together, much more tech, every other winter as things just seem to take time away to do more than that. I don’t drink much beer these days, but I enjoy a full variety when I try. From English bitters to Scotch ales to Kolsch to IPAs to Pilsners. My local brew pub usually has about 30 rotators on tap. I like Lost Coast, Russian River, Fieldwork and Faction, to name a few. If I had to order with no beer menu, I’d grab a Pliny the Elder, or a Racer 5 or Blind Pig for IPA types — all pretty hoppy well above 50-60 IBUs. Lost Coast’s nut brown ale is nice. I like a simple, cold Stella once in a while, and a Guinness is just fine, too, although I might prefer a Beamish or a Murphy’s to it for a dark stout. A good choco Porter, nice and chewy, is nice with food. Won’t turn down a Belgian tripel, either — gotta nurse that puppy. Years ago when I was working for a chip and memory maker, I took a couple of business trips to Brussels. A guy from HP that was showing me around and how to deal with the WTO took me both times to a beer bar in the old town just off the Guild Square. Doubles and Tripels galore. Plus, we smoked cigars. Talk about baked, boy howdy. But, worth it. There are so many craft brews now, I don’t know how any of them make any money. Beer is like wine — drink whatever floats your boat…
have you tried this? Would be interested on your take. I prefer this to pliney now. It’s expensive and it gets you pretty fucked up quickly but I really like the taste.
https://drinkdrakes.com/beers/denogginizer/
OH yeah, I’ve tried denogginizer.
It’s good, a little too big on the malty side for me to consider as a favorite. ABV at 9.75% (I googled) is pushing the envelope for me, but the big IBU at 90+ balances it up. Expensive. Rare to find in my local brewpub, it’s on the high end $$$$ if you get a pint. And one pint is enough. At that ABV, I’m slayed with one pint, I gotta have food with something that big…
Triple Rock!!! Buddy of mine was there from ’79 to ’83, and we hit the Triple Rock all the time. Was it the Rolling Rock back then? Still looks the same.
I was turned on to Smithwick’s a little while ago and was very impressed. Anderson Valley’s Boont Amber Ale is great, as is their Oatmeal Stout.
Rogue is another great brewery. Their Dead Guy Ale is one of my faves. As is their Chocolate Stout. They have a solid Honey Kolsch as well. Was seriously bummed when their bar on Union St burned down last year. They had just started selling their whiskey.
I always ask for Smithwick’s over Bass in a black and tan…
They pronounce it “Smiddick’s” here.
Maybe everywhere, for all I know…
I was at Cal starting Fall ’82.
There was a Buffalo Bills brewpub on South Side in same time frame, I think. I don’t remember it much, ‘cuz I didn’t much like the look of the place or the beer. I think the actual brewery was down in Hayward or San Leandro. Seem to remember also that maybe the dude running it was a bit of a tool.
Chuck, I looked and good call — you’re close, the Triple Rock was originally “Roaring Rock”, then changed its name to the Triple Rock after Rolling Rock in PA came after them.
I started brewing probably in 1984. We had one 30 gallon white food grade plastic garbage can. We dumped the boiled wort into the can, tossed in the yeast and more water, covered the top with Saran Wrap, put the can in my buddy’s garage, and hoped for the best. Siphoned off the primary fermented beer with a plastic hose direct into the bottles with a bit of priming sugar, wait two weeks and drink. Hopefully drinkable, not a fruity mess from ambient yeasts. Fun times…
BTW, I just read where Drakes, they of BF’s denogginizer fame, is owned by at least one of the two dudes who started Triple Rock back in the ’80s. Drakes was started by an ex-brewmaster at Triple Rock, then he sold out in the 2000s to the current owners. The creativity and perseverance of the nascent craft brew industry back then was enormous in the face of a huge foe — the established national breweries. NorCal was ground zero for the craft beer movement…
The first beer I ever tried, when I was 9 or 10 while visiting the relatives :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licher_Brewery
It was delivered by the crateful to every house in the village once a week, along with a few more containers of bottled mineral water and limonade.
Wilhelm’s HOF credentials are really suspect.
He homered in his first MLB at bat and then never again.
I wonder if he’s the only one to do that.
I doubt anyone ever did the opposite – hit no homers till their last MLB at bat…
I think fancying up beer takes the fun out of it.
It’s no longer a bottle o’ suds or just “piss water”…
So it sounds like this joint I’m going to on Saturday really sucks…
Maybe they have a few old dusty Lucky Lagers under the bar Loo, the riddles under the cap will help on the boredom, the piss water beer not so much..
I would be genuinely unhappy to go there. For different reasons, but I’m still pleased to commiserate with you.
You guys are making me thirsty. I pretty much quit drinking 30 years ago but every once in a while I will have a beer or a glass of red.
In Germany, Czech Republic and some in Slovakia, virtually every town of any size has its own brewery that produces the local stuff. It’s a pride thing, so they are invariably good. The craft brew “industry” reflects that to some extent, IMO, maybe less now than before, but still. The craft pioneers here in NorCal drove quality and variety in beer to European levels. It’s hard to imagine now any urban or suburban areas in the West or anywhere in the states, really, without a variety of brewpubs available for lotsa beer choices and food, and entertainment. That particular kind of establishment in the US did not exist before 1983…
My blues buddy in Carolinas had a post announcing Blues Music award for Ric Estrin and Nightcats as 2021 band of the year. Picked up “Groovin at Greaseland” from 2017 on Alligator with guest stints from jerry jemmott on bass, jim pugh and Terry Hanck. this one had old drummer Alex Peterson plus Kid Andersen on guitar and keyboard Lorenzo Farrell. Band tours all over country, all year.
good stuff
I remember Estrin going back to Little Charlie and the Nightcats. He stops by Mazolini’s Kpfa Saturday radio show periodically, to pump a CD or local appearance, tell tales and select music.
Gyros have to take at least 3 of these 4 with the Dbacks, else they’ve lost ground. Dbacks are headed for 100 loss season. Bum can’t be happy with that, although the checks cash…
Chimay sounds like some kind of women’s wrinkle cream.
I gotta bail on this thing…
Perfect time to bring up Ramos.
WTF are they waiting for?
Team needs a spark and the reign of the Grave Duggar appears to be over…
“Cashier dead 2 wounded in dispute over face mask..” Georgian man walks into store, leaves mchdse on counter during argument over face mask, leaves then returns and opens fire on cashier. Off duty officer fires on him he returns fire and hits officer twice before being subdued; another cashier caught stray bullet.
good lord
darwin may not leave any of us left
Ned’s tormentors have better teeth now. They also have representatives in government.
They ARE the government.
Selfish fucking people who have no regard for life and absolutely self control. This creep is gonna wake up and find he threw his life and the peoples he shot life away for nothing. Hopefully Bubba will have a good time.
That guy probably reads Jordan Peterson and thinks he’s an intellectual
Seems like a long time ago that they (allegedly) sold out the park every single game…
Bases loaded with 3 consecutive sub .200 hitters due up.
Then the pitcher…
Tauchman&GD are just clones.Both can play defense but neither can hit a lick.U can’t keep sending no productive outfielders at there.Outfield is a major production position in baseball and the Giants are getting little..
Free Ramos now!!
Agreed.
This OF offense is offensive…
A Casali hit sighting !
Potentially earth threatening-sized asteroids seem to pass by Earth more often…
Wow.
This team has way too many players who are idiots on the basepaths.
Keep pissing away run scoring situations and you lose even to dregs like the Dbacks.
Repeat my 7:16…
This series is not going to go well. That was more bad luck than stupidity.
Casali at 3rd couldn’t go home on a line shot, he rightfully had to wait to see what happens. Meanwhile, Vosler steams for 3rd, can’t go anywhere. Then doubled off. That’s stupid baserunning, or call it inattentive. Bad luck the hard hit ball was right at somebody…
Yes, but Vosler saw it hit the ground, presumably so did Casali. Not a great situation.
First thing you learn in little league, freeze on a line drive, guess Vosler never got the memo.
They actually never taught us that in Little League.
It would have cut into their molesting time…
I never heard it, if they did. I was too busy trying not to swing and miss at every pitch.
If you play ball at any level, including the schoolyard or the gutter, it’s not something you need to be taught.
It’s really just common sense…
If Solano can get hot, that would be a good thing…
I don’t know if it’s true I always assumed it was ipa isn’t fancy beer originally just a high alcohol beer designed to survive the long sailing ship trip from England to India.
Belt!
This is just a really weird game already. Ugh.
It really is a mess…
Wade seems ok at 1B but Belt is really great. Easy to take for granted.
Sometimes you just have to toe the line.
That toe job kept the score tied in this strange game.
Fleming weird remark:Not ideal to put a runner on there?
Hell it kept the score tied as they got out of it..
Wood has no business having a bat in his hand..
How about a water shot for Yaz, so I can go lay down…
Wood doesn’t look like he should be as incompetent at the plate as he apparently is …
I bet the “sellouts” at Oracle don’t resume unless SF is still at or near first place circa late August.
Craw bomb!
Finally a couple more runs off . . .
https://youtu.be/HIxGyrQz_e8
Flemm and Miller are giving Krukow a lot of room to meander tonight and man has he been lost at times. Or just silent.
Pads lose at Coors, must’ve been a long flight from NYC.
Wonder what Z/H will do with Belt. In Kap’s platooney lineups, Belt so far only has 25-30 ABs vs.LHP. At present rate rest of BC will be back next year.
His best hope is the fact that he’s the model hitter for the offensive strategy they’ve used over the last couple of years.
His health problems were extreme this year. I doubt he’s 100% now. That’s why he’s getting rung up slightly more often on third strikes, I bet. But they know all that and much more. If he gets stronger with regular play over the rest of the season, I’d guess they could consider a qualifying offer for next year. But the data may say that his eye and his size fifteens aren’t really worth so much.
Bet it would come down to a 3 ball 2 strikes count for Belt if they offer him arbitration..
One run lead after all this, I’ve seen it before, a terrible ending awaits us. Repent!!
I’d been missing that E-2 play …
Vosler is a moron getting baserunning advice from Dubon. Criminy 10 hits and 4 walks in 6 innings = 3 runs? Yeah we are scuffling.
I remember when Red Tail Ale first came out in the early 80s. Seemed to be the start of the microbrews. Then wheat beers came out a few years later. Widmer was a good one.
Casals with 3 hits?
One of the vendors at next to last company meeting we went to in Portland took us to Widmer Bros. brewery, tour of plant and then dinner in restaurant. good time had by all
Holy crap, Casali raised his average 35 points tonight to .135 now only trails Sockless by 41 who’s at .176!!
he’ll be around forever now. Casali, that is.
Nice recovery and cover by Mr Rogers
Thing of beauty right there…
And another…
Duggar single!
Rising from the dead again…
Attack of the holograms!
Grave-y run!
Hackin’ Honkies!
Need as much as possible for McGoof…
She must belong to San Francisco,
She must have lost her way…
Great AB by Crawford!
Can’t believe he’s 4th at SS voting behind Tatis jr ok maybe but not for his defense, Javy Baez seriously, and even more of a joke Corey Seager who’s out with a fractured hand!!!
There was a bar in Boston (Allston-Brighton neighborhood) called Sunset Bar & Grill, had hundreds of beers and ales on tap and hundreds more in bottles. Loved that place. The discussions here reminded of it. Just checked; it closed in 2017. So sad. I think I might’ve even recommended it to the Flappers who visited Boston a few years ago. One cool thing they did: they sold the labels (very cheap) for many of the microbrews, ’cause the labels were gorgeous. Blue Heron, Red Tail, etc. I collected a bunch. Good times.