Just Keep Winning
Something to remember next time any of you want to disparage The Grave Duggar.
Regarding the Dodger game last night: Hey Roberts, bring it on. It won’t matter. We’re just gonna keep winning. Tingler’s band of pussies could give up 37 home runs tonight. Nothing changes. You’re still gonna come up short.
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Bum vs Kazmir. Maybe Chi’s pal Madison will be overcome with emotions and we can jump out in front. Should be epic no matter what.
All Aboard.
Fuck…fell to sleep last night with dreams of a bum loss, and the fucking cockroaches came back for a win. Pfffttt…
Hoping that Posey and Craw get to play against their buddy Mason Saunders. And I don’t have a problem with him having a quality start as long as the Giants win the game.
I couldn’t care less how we beat bum, light him up or he gets a QS and we roll late. I appreciate everything Bum did for us but he’s straight up the enemy tonight…..
Good point. I sure will not feel sorry for him if we hang some big crooked numbers on him and bury him early.
After the standing O, it’s game on.
Bummie gives up bombs so the hope is he gets rocked.
Might go to the game with Garrett. He’s back from Montana.
Fucking Padres. Who was that clown who gave up all the homers in the 8th?
Chuck & Flav, absolutely. It goes without saying that Bum is an all-time Giant and an all-time favorite of mine, but I hope the Giants light him up. This is war and it feels like the Dodgers will never lose again. The G’s are going to have to forcibly close this thing out.
Duggar has been an important piece this year and he will continue to be moving forward. I’ve been critical of him in the past, we all have, but he’s impressed me with his overall improvement this year.
He makes our team better. That isn’t even debatable
Absolutely. Best speed on the team. Plus defender in the OF. And he shows flashes of power.
Same for me re MadBum. An all-time Giant, but tonight he’ll be standing in the way in the Giants’ quest for the division title. I hope they beat the shit out of him.
Kazmir might be fighting for roster spot in post season. Loo asked about this and I’m unsure too—once playoff round roster (26 or 28?) is set, what happens? No changes allowed that round except to add if you put someone on IL? Belt is currently on IL, McGee is too though he threw 20 pitches in pen session that went well according to Slush.
For a player to be eligible for any postseason roster he has to be on the 40 roster or 60 day IL by Aug 31.
Postseason roster rules rom MLB for each round-
Teams submit a 26-man roster (it was 25, prior to 2020) prior to each round of the postseason comprised of postseason-eligible players. A club may request permission from the Commissioner’s Office to replace a player who is injured during the course of a series, but that player is then ineligible for the rest of that round and the subsequent round, if there is one. A pitcher may be replaced only by another pitcher, and a position player only by another position player.
Teams carry extra players throughout the postseason in the event of injuries, and those players, as well as players on the injured list, can be in the dugout during games, within reason.
Thanks!
No prob, I was curious about it myself.
104 wins and counting? That blows my mind. I seriously can’t wrap my head around this season.
Forget baseball—-this has to be one of the biggest surprise seasons in the history of pro sports.
I’m not sure if I have ever seen anything that compares to it in any sport. Have any of you?
well, i checked in with 74 wins (I think). I can’t think of a team that won 50% more games than I thought they’d win.
Pads L shows what’s happened to their pitching. They get 5 off Scherzer, add on vs. Graterol, and can’t hold 4 run lead late in game.
More than how well they replace Belt, still think how far Giants go resides in how well they pitch in post season.
Kapler will be in uncharted water there, though he’s done well enough with pitching staff to get them where they are now, SPs pen and mgmt of same.
i’m a little worried about Kap managing in the PS. If he tries to do it *like any regular game* it will likely back fire. Having said that, he knows more than I do about this team so…..
Give all the standing ovations to Bumgarner he deserves and rightfully so but once that first pitch is thrown all fun is over and it’s like any other game and it’s time to beat them..
I don’t see any scenario where Kazmir makes the playoff roster.I believe all teams can carry 13 pitchers max and adding Doval&Castro to postseason which will happen there’s not enough room for him.At this point I don’t even see Shimmy&Shake added to the 1stRd, after the Giants win the division!
I’ll tell you, I’m WAY off the Rogers train. I don’t want to see him do anything meaningful in these playoffs.
My biggest fear is Kapler’s apparent love for him. NO high-leverage spots for Rogers. He’s strictly mop-up duty.
100% agree.
The guy has had too many appearances. His novelty doesn’t fool if the stuff is lackluster.
For late imnings leverage guy, he allows Way Way too much traffic every outing, too many handles required by the infield where some shit can go wrong, especially now that Belt is out. Rarely are there pop outs or can o’ corn flies; if the batter elevates, it’s likely to be a rope…
Tingler is an idiot. Pagan gives up 2 home runs and a ball to the fence for out 1. No mound visit, no catcher visit. No pitching change. Dude gives up ANOTHER home run. Change pitchers? Naaah. Then gives up a double! Hmmm. Might be time for a mound visit. Or, gee, take Pagan out. Of course the next guy gives up yet another bomb and the 5 run rally is complete. The ghost of Tommy Lasagna was seen dumping cash into the Padres clubhouse.
Jesus fucking Christ. If I’m a Padres fan I’m heading to the park with a pitchfork and a torch. That team is a fucking trainwreck crashing into a dumpster fire.
Not sure if Pads fans are that rabid down there. Do most of them really care that much?
If Kap had done that, then yeah, there would be a pretty strong fan reaction up here.
Maybe Tingler knows he’s done anyway, and didn’t really care.
To me, that thing where the Pads shifted and left 3rd base abandoned so that Turner on 2nd just waltzed over to third — that’s F’ed up and is more telling that there’s nobody in Pads field management paying attention …
The announcers were so resigned to the Padres just blowing it that it came as no surprise to them.
At least the offense showed up…
Still, you play to win. You don’t just sit in the dugout with your thumb up your ass while your reliever is getting shelled. If this was New York, there’d be hell to pay.
50 games over .500 is flat mind-boggling.
Why can’t any English speaking person replace “mind boggling” and “no brainer”?
They never go away.
Of course if they did, I would complain about whatever replaced them…
“gobsmacked” is another term that’s been overused the last few years.
I never even heard of that word for almost all my life, then all of a sudden, it’s all over.
I looked it up, it’s a British word. Maybe Netflix and other streaming showing a bunch of Brit shows is giving us a ton of words never used here before…
I guess given background of Zaidi and Kap it’s not surprising Giants do lot of things like LA, but at some point Kap will have chance to outmaneuver Roberts and take them down. Or at least not make a screw up that costs SF a game like Roberts has done with Dogs in playoffs past.
RE: The mysterious San Dog’s question, all I can come up with is the ’69 Mets.
I think they were 100-1 shots pre-season for the pennant or WS.
They did have 2 absolute stud SPs in Seaver and Koosman.
Also great D up the middle.
They got career years out of Jones and Agee and picked up Clendenon at the TD.
Hodges stuck to a strict platoon system at 4 positions.
Still the Orioles were expected to roll over them in the WS…
Tingler and Mets Rojas are gone on Monday…
Bochy could have more than one offer coming to him.
The LaRussa success this season also plays to Bochy’s advantage if he wants to manage again. And Dusty Baker’s success, too.
LaRussa can pound sand.
I hope the ChiSox crater in the post season.
Giants v Dusty and Stros in the WSeries? That would be a good one…
Those 2 teams are way different Zum, both primed to win right now with solid rosters and solid favs going into this season to win their Divisions.
Not so in Pads case. I really hope Bochy continues his ride off into sunset, especially in case of offer from San Diego with GM like Preller.
Meanwhile, the A’s are officially out of the hunt for post season.
I don’t pay any attention to them, so don’t know really what happened. I thought Marte gave them a big boost for a bit, but apparently that wasn’t enough. Appears that very few others pay attention either, considering their paltry attendance — I think some of their recent games at the Coliseum had 4000 or less?…
Their relievers went way south and lost about 10 games ia a row or some shit like that.
The one thing I do know is that the Mariners have owned them like the Giants have owned the Dbacks and Rocks…
The A’s never recovered when their closer Trivino cratered against the Giants and continued to screwup after that, they were toast when he turned into Trevor Gott..
If we can get AZ to pick up some salary, Bum would fit very nicely in our rotation next year.
I’d also be very interested in FA Syndegaard…
I would like to have Thor if he is completely healthy that’s the key word Healthy!
I’m guessing the Mets will give him his QO of 19 mil and he will gladly take it though and stay in NY.
The bashing here would be relentless if he broke down again with a huge salary on the books..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/watch-padres-announcers-were-disgusted-by-teams-meltdown-against-dodgers/ar-AAP0ZQe?ocid=msedgntp
Ruf up from, Watson down to the IL. Cueto’s back, too.
That sucks about Watson.
Overused?
Is this Kapler’s way of resting up for the playoffs? Is Magoo coming back any time soon?
Watson was just used last night.
Has to be a temporary move because he won’t be used tonight, maybe tomorrow too.
No way IMO they’ll hit the post season without Watson.
If the old Sept callup method was still in play where you could have essentially all on the 40 man available to you, this kind of daily movement wouldn’t happen…
Watson’s IL stint is backdated a bit. His shoulder strain is too. Remember 2019-20?
1. Austin Slater (R) CF
2. Darin Ruf (R) LF
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
5. Kris Bryant (R) RF
6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
7. Wilmer Flores (R) 1B
8. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
9. Scott Kazmir (L) P
I think the Giants sound system should play a touch of Fire on the Mountain before MadBum appears tonight, before the standing ovation takes over — unless he happens to come to bat in the first inning. Now that would be a disaster for all involved. Silver Medal Kazmir, who still looks like a HS number three, has some work to do.
3 being the innings I hope we can get out of him. Then it will be Dr. Shimmy time. Be still my heart.
Got a bad feeling about this one.
Darin Ruf is back, Johnny Cueto is active and joining bullpen. Jose Quintana DFA’d. Tony Watson went on IL with a left shoulder strain. And Brebbia is healthy as a horse. Christ.
Cueto is not a guy to come out of the Pen into the middle of a game, even if he starts an inning. That seems no bueno to me…
Quintana had to go though, he was terrible.
anyone want to email him and walk him through this? I don’t know how to do it with an iMac.
Carstie Clausen
To:
Big Flavor
Thu, Sep 30 at 12:05 PM
Craig: Just got back on iMac today. Will Kazmir come through today? If they win tonight the magic # is down to two. Guess we all knew that. Half hour to “visit” from probation officer. Excuse me for a technicollogical idiot, but I do not completely understand what “clearing out your cache” would entail. Exactly which steps should I take—just WordPress stuff or more? Those runners left in scoring position and monstrous LOB stats speaks volumes about Belt’s brainfart. -Stix
i sent him a link but it may be too much for him to follow
the way you log on is the key. In the old days, gravatar was best. I still have an ancient gravatar account. Stix was using some method to log on last year. Whatever that was, it’s still there. But other entryways are available. Cache ain’t no thing, here.
Depends on the browser as well. Prolly Google or Safari
why does the browser matter? get onto WordPress and then log in via something, right?
Bryant at #5 hole.
He’s hitting like a #8 hole.
How many ABs since the last HR?
Longo has been in an HR drought, too.
Bum is definitely not averse to giving up some bombs, hopefully he’ll oblige tonight.
Would like to see him do semi-OK, then Giants smoke the AZ Pen to win, with Bum off the hook for a loss…
I hope we shell his ass and beat him 8-0. Just have to win. That is all that matters.
Vince Velasquez is the scheduled opener for Pads tonight.
He’s the guy who gave up that 3 run double to Bryant last week, and lasted only that one inning.
6.88 ERA.
What’s the over under on how many runs he coughs up to LA in the first inning tonight?
I’ll set it at 3 1/2 and go with the over…
having played him on and off for several years in DFS I can say this: he’s infuriating. When I played him he invariably would get completely rocked or injured. When I didn’t play him he was lights out with a shitload of K’s. He’s on my top 10 list of most hated played DFS player
In addition to the importance of the game, the park should be sold out for Bumgarner.
Doubtful, right?
Could be.
When I get the energy, I gotta check what Mays’ return to Candlestick attracted.
McCovey, too…
Should be plenty of Bum highlights interspersed.
Hope to see the Joe West stare down and the “don’t look at me” Puig battle.
A best of snot rockets montage would be a nice touch, too…
WTF is going on here ?!!
Nothing good, except maybe we’ll never see Kazmir again.
The park is far from full.
I don’t like Bum’s haircut…
Come on Slater take fucking control…
The bumbling inning continues !!
Can’t say I didn’t see this coming. What the actual fuck is Slater doing in the OF? He’s got to take that ball. Christ. Kasmir spaces out and there you go.
fuck me. MadBum well may make his return batting this inning. This is not championship baseball.
WTF is with Slater? That was his ball as CFer. The guy repeatedly has costly OF phuckups…
Captain Obvious for once is right.Kazmir couldn’t get that 37 year old body moving…
I think El Capitan Obvio is always right.
Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to start a guy who got the Olympic medal for finishing second.
or who’s thickening up like an ex-jock
Lol 😂
Flem and Kruk continue the assault on Kazmir. They should start digging his grave right now themselves..
Of fuck back comes “The Arm Slot” by a riled up out of control Krukow right now..
Fuuuuuck this. A granny for the returning champion?
I don’t believe it. I don’t fucking believe it. He deserved a much better tribute than that. This is the worst fucking game of the year.
Totally agree…
Bum’s ovation probably would’ve been louder and longer if the situation wasn’t so dire…
Well, just about as good as they can expect. Coulda got real stupid.
Was Kazmir in a coma when he took the mound? Fer kreissakes that was a S Show inning…
Got 1 back.
Welcome back Ruf!
Kazmir might be fighting for a roster spot? Lol
As McEnroe would say:Are you serious!
That ended quickly. Looks like they’re not taking pitches tonight.
LA first two batters have homered. My 3 1/2 over under in The first frame is in play…
Thairo 7/22 in 70 fewer AB than KB who is 7/21.
Pence went 7/45 in 2012 after coming over despite .219 BA…
Johnny better be good.
“That’s a double order” as the camera shows the girl’s big rack…
Kruk is right.
Bum definitely slimmed down…
It wasn’t pretty, but if Johnny C can get us 3 or 4 more innings like that we got a chance.
Ruf night.
Chipping away.
Two ABs for Ruf and he already looks like their best hitter post-Belt. Now if only someone else would join him.
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Yeah, Ruf has been solid all season at the plate when not hurt…
Longo and Bryant are the double aught bros. Swinging at shit. All the time,
Miller says Bryant was 3 for his last 26. Sheezus…
Pavs wants the Giants to giveaway 40,000 Captain Belt Caps in the first playoff game, I’m in a sea of Captain’s world be cool..
That would be cool, but it would take a pretty quick turnaround for the fulfillment, and a sponsor to sign up.
Baer would never spring for the Giants to self-pay for that…
that would be ridiculous. trade in your old baby giraffe heads and panda hats for a deal!
If they ain’t gonna resign him, they won’t be doing a promotional for him.
MVCRAW!
Craw ties this thing up.
Didn’t take long for SF to get back to even off Bum.
Good giant forever, but AZ can keep him.
as if things couldn’t get worse, the red rhino is not only back in the stands but he’s being touted by kruk. that is not championship baseball.
Cueto’s willingness to return and take his chance in relief, pitching as fiercely as ever, does offer some hope.
Fuckin’ Bryant.
Ditto.
The guy is really proving to be way overhyped…
Might have been able to get another inning or two from Cueto if KB hadn’t butchered that play.
Fucking Bryant is a goddamn liability out there. Errant throws at 3rd and now this? Jesus
He needs a big PS to wipe out his regular season floppage…
Sometimes guys that can play a lot of positions don’t play any of them especially well…
Littell sometimes sucks, but never takes a loss…
And sometimes looks incredible…
I knew this was gonna be a fucked up night
now 4-1 Dogs.
Nice work by Littell there, to keep another run from coming in with one out…
Tatis with a tape measure 2-run HR at the Latrine.
4-3 Dodgers now…
This is torture!
Buster ties it up!