Are the ‘Guardians’ The Worst Name In Professional Sports? Yes.
Fun little series with Cleveland. I like that we no longer stack all the interleague games at the same time. Although with the uni DH there’s not much difference between the leagues except general style of play/pitching. I’m also enjoying the uni DH, as I suspected we’d get used to it very quickly.
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I’d go with the Washington Commanders. They might as well had gone with the Washington Generals.
Redtails woulda been a nice nod to the Tuskegee airmen of WWII fame. But that’s too easy.
Be interesting to see what Kap does with DH as season moves along, and it gets more ABs for Ruf and Flores, which is great (Joc ass I’m less enthused about). Bart was DH vs. Manaea the LHP, and he struck out 3 times in the all RH lineup. Thing is, had Casali gotten hurt (and Kap said he was uneasy about it), if Bart had to take his place they would have lost the spot altogether and had to use PHs. This was a lineup without both Belt and Crawford, so unlikely I guess Kap does that again even vs. LHP.
You can only say so much about April ball especially given shortened ST. But, once rosters go back to 26 May 2 and Giants unhealthy position players like LaStella Longoria and Wade Jr. get back, others aren’t going to be around. So who is gonna be able to make those decisions tough on FO, and who is gonna be DFA’d or sent down. Roster churn will happen.
Plus Kap will have to go back to 13 pitchers.
I’ll make one of the tough decisions .I’m cutting Beede he’s just too wild and they need pitchers who throws strikes, not to try and guide and pray to hit the strike zone.Besides they have 2 better quality arms in Castro&Marte in Sac.They have given Beede plenty of leash but he’s choked on the collar way to often then not. As good as the pitching has been, he’s a roster spot not needed when a guy like Gonzalez has a proven bat from time with Whitesox’s would be better for added bench strength..
As someone said earlier there are probably gonna be a lot of nail biter games. Which means the torture is back and should make for a fun season. Hopefully the core will regain the power of last year and our timely hitting can continue. I read something this morning about how teams are using their pitching to counter act any situation inning by inning. On the surface it seems it would make games longer but if the strategy works should actually shorten the games. I think a lot of teams looked at the Giants last year and are trying to copy that success.
Only names worse are the Commodores and the stupid Wizards…
I never had a problem with Wizards but of course they should have kept Bullets.
Your favorite Amy G with Kapp over a Laphroaig.
Either interesting or somewhat offputting — depends on your POV and the segment of the interview.
Laphroaig wouldn’t be my first choice, Amy G kind of sips it like it’s gasoline.
Kapp’s gotta be a pretty keen Scotch drinker. This one’s pretty rough for neophytes. It’s an Islay, a challenging peaty Scotch. Kapp could have at least just gotten a nice, smooth highland Macallan or similar…
Not a big scotch fan. Whiskey is a different story altogether. Scotch to me has a real aluminum (aluminium?) taste to it. A real metallic bite.
A nice Tullamore Dew? Yes please.
Ever try the Deanston 12 year? Whisky that comes closest to a whiskey, at least to me.
Nope. Not yet. Russell’s small batch reserve is really good.
Blanton’s single barrel bourbon is some good shit. A brand by Buffalo Trace.
Expensive. Cool bottle with different horse miniatures on the stopper.
It’s filled and finished on a totally hands-on manual bottling line at the distillery in Frankfort, KY.
Saw it myself on the distillery tour. The tasting afterwards did NOT include a free finger of that one !
Same trip we did a tour at the Wild Turkey distillery in Lawrenceburg. They make the Russel’s.
The old master distiller Jimmy Russell was in the gift shop/tasting room area sitting there, holding court and signing shit.
We got a whiskey food recipe book that he signed. He’s older than dirt, and has been the master distiller almost since Prohibition ended. His boy is now the real distiller. Wild Turkey was a good tour, and nice tasting of 5 different products. People were great. We rolled in 5 minutes late for the second to last tour of the day. They put us on the extra tourbus and drove just us on the tour route up to the first stop so we could catch up, and not have to wait an hour for the last tour to start. Highly recommended stop if you go on a bourbon tour. Woodford Reserve was really good, too. Smaller operation, high class…
Giants LU against the Guardians of the Galaxy with Pitcher Carlos Rodon on the hump
1)Yazzer RF
2) Captain Belt 1B
3) Ruf&ReadyDH
4) Joc itch LF
5)Crawdaddy SS
6) Mr.Ed 3B
7) Ponch Estrada 2B
8) GraveDuggar CF
9) Joey catch you on the Bart C
Well done on the names!
I think the Houston Texans is a pretty terrible name. Slightly better than calling their team the Houston United Staters. Or the Houston North Americans. Or the Houston Planet Earthers.
Lucky it’s not the Confederates or Seditionists…
Cavs hosting Atlanta tonight in Cleveland as well. Jarrett Allen and best ‘fro in league supposed to play. Love to see them and Winston Garland’s son Darius knock Hawks out.
I don’t see how the Wizards could have still been called the Bullets, given that there are so many thousands of gun deaths in the U.S. every year. The average person watching the news can’t keep track of all the mass shootings that happen in the U.S. now. Calling a sports team the Bullets just wasn’t a viable thing anymore.
whatever. Bullets was a cool name for a team.
The Sharks were gonna be the San Jose Blades, but some similar connotations there,
Craw crushed it.
I don’t know if this is true, but I’d heard that for a while Crips gang members were wearing Colorado Rockies gear that had CR on it. And wearing British Knight shoes, because the BK logo meant “Blood killer” to them. I have no idea if any of that is true.
The CF Steven Kwan is local. Played HS ball at Washington of Fremont. Belt saves errant throw from Wilmet.
Rodon is just NASTY.
Tonight’s game has a brisk pace going.
After the last game went 2:11. Hope you didn’t jinx it!
A Joc Jack!!
Thought I’d try that out.
back to the drawing board!
LOL
Hey, a real HR for Jocass.
Joc. That’s why we got him. Hitting .375 too, unexpected surprise
Joc itch HR number 150! Nice blast to center!
Damm Rodon is built like a Hummer SUV and a /Tiger tank with just filthy stuff!
Yeah quick worker like Webb&Wood too, I like that keeps your defense on their heels when your throwing strikes!
You want them in their toes but yeah.
Rodon says, here’s 99 cheese and I’m getting the last Straw in this AB..7th K 19 for the season so far, I’m guessing leading the bigs?
Kap is infuriating sometimes. He just yanks our best hitter today so he can get Slater up there. But Gose has been all over the place, Cle manager WANTED to take him out. Stupid Kap
Yeah but Gose made Belt look silly and Kap wasn’t going to do that matchup with Joc, he’s been pinch hitting for him before in these situations and probably will continue that. Not saying it’s always right it’s just Kappy’s philosophy..
At the last Flapalooza I attended, Reyes hit a ridiculous bomb against SF.
Tremendous work by Rodon after the first 2 hitters reached.That K of Rosario was sweet when mostly every hitter expects 0-2 to be a east pitch he freezes him with 99 right down the pipe!
Adds another K for 9 and 21 in the season.90 pitches call it a night and hope the pen gets it done!
Pow Joey!
I’m guessing less than 50% of the Flap bots get that reference.
You do t know this crowd then
I guess most of the bots have achieved advanced age.
Joey Bart !! Just passes Duane Kuiper in Cleveland no less in HR’s with number 2!!
To be fair to Kuiper, Frank Robinson would chew him out for any fly-outs. Robinson wanted him to be only a slap-hitter.
I guess I’m a Joey Bart fan now. What tremendous development, in every facet of his game, since 2020.
Just needs to get plenty of at bats and see plenty of big league pitchers. Takes time and adjustments and K’s will be part of it, but you can see his bat speed is top rate ! He will be moving up in the order with some consistency, but I like what I see, even his defense is way improved..
Oh boy. Here comes Mr. Rodgers.
And there go Guardians, down in order. All set up for…?
Wonder if Tyler Rodgers does submarine diaper changes?
The somewhat low camera angle from the centerfield camera makes Rogers look about 6’8″.
Ichabod Sain. Nice. The slow roller was hit by the catcher
72% of the flappers might get that reference.
First base ump, come on, dude. That’s embarrassingly bad.
That is flat awful. How can you miss that badly?
Man, think of before replay challenge: all those horrible ump calls that were never overturned, and the managers would come out and blow a gasket for five minutes and get tossed from the game.
Be nice to see a clean quick inning from Sr. Heat.
That dude that lost his perfect game because the first base ump choked on the last out.
Gallardo? Joyce?
Sounds right.
Yeah that was the dude.Joyce apologized later for fucking up.But Gallardo just said apologize excepted Capt Nimmo in his best Darth Vader imitation..
Slider.
Wow. That one worked.
Still scares me tho
Yesssssssss! Ballgame!!!
El Camino with the save Rodin with a gem.
Nice win. Great way to start a road trip.
First road win!
Road Warriors!!
Great start and some great play by these guys!
I got the Cleveland feed on stream east and they had Larry Doby Jr in the booth. Told some cool stories and they did a big tribute to his dad before the game. Great stuff.
Didn’t realize Doby was also the 2nd black manager in the game.
1st place Giants always has a great feeling being ahead of the Bums!
Giants pitching is incredible, the Bats 3 big long balls that chicks dig,stellar defense after the first few games! Life’s good time for a scotch/Whiskey Kappy 🥃
I’d say I’m usually more interested in seeing offense when I watch highlight videos, but this starting rotation is worth watching on its own.
P/A and Loo,Mac,Pawlie,Clown,GH etc all east coasters who are hockey fans and I am too even from the west coast, so sad to hear the passing of Mike Bossy (65) an incredible hockey legend and scorer with the NY Islanders 4 time cup champions! He was the Gretzky before the Gretzky back then.Injuries cut his career short as well unfortunately, but man he could light up the net, and probably right there in goal pct career for games played..RIP Mike Bossy you were a Legend!!
Agree about Bossy, I saw him play a few times (including playoffs) while I was in Boston, dude was a stud. Shit, my age, too….
Mine too!
Thanks for the Clint sighting Zumiee
As Flavor said, Rodon is beast, still throwing 98-99 when he finished and breaking ball to match.
giants have lowest runs against and ERA/FIP in NL, have only allowed 3 HRs (tied for best) and 3rd in WHIP. Offense still coming around but if you can hold the other guys down, mission accomplished.
I don’t like interleague games, I don’t like the DH and I don’t like Jocass, other than that, I’m liking these crisp, well pitched games. And wins, I like winning.
I’m indifferent to the interleague games, like Pederson – looks like he’s primed to have a very good year – and thank the lord that I’ll never have to watch Alex Wood take another totally pointless at bat again. A winning baseball team makes my life better.
As long as Joc-o homo keeps hitting big flies, I’m cool. He’s a twit, but that’s par for the course dealing with baseball players.
Thanks that was fun.
I suspected this the last time I was at the Mausoleum at an A’s game probably 6 or 7 years ago, but it’s official.
The A’s are finally the best at something.
Having the worst ballpark food in MLB.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/mlb-baseball-stadium-fast-food-snacks
I saw a story on local TV news a few days ago about there being a lot of feral cats running loose in the bowels of the Oakland stadium. The feral cats are not being permanently removed because, I kid you not, their ability to kill rats in the stadium is much appreciated. There is an effort to capture the cats and get them spayed or neutered. But then they are returned to the stadium.
Nice bounce back from DeSclafani today, solid through 4 innings
Wonder if/when “quality start” stat gets dialed back, to what idk.
5 innings 2 runs allowed seems reasonable these days.
Not counting SD 13-2 blowout, Giants had only scored 18 runs in other 6 games.
Belt!!!
Captain Clutch , no slippage on the Belt’s as he delivers baseloaded knock for the lead..
So Joe Maddon decides to walk Corey Seager last night with The baseloaded and already down 3-2 to make it 4-2? The look on Mike Trout’s face was priceless, looking around in disbelief, is this really happening?
Must of had some effect as the Angels rallied for a 5 run inning and held on 7-6..
Only 3rd time this has ever happened,and Maddon has done it twice.The other?Bucky Showalter Arizona D-backs walked Barry Bonds , but they had a 2 run lead in the 9th.Brent Mayne lined out to right as the D-backs held on..
It happened to McCovey at some point in his career.
No I don’t think so Chuck.McCovey lead the league once with 45 intentional passes, but never with the bases loaded.Same with Mays,Robinson,Williams,Aaron all the premier sluggers..
Bob in the short shorts.
McGoo up to his old tricks again in save situation.
He better get right fast…
Great nobody warming up as McGoo struggles along..
The problem with McGoo is that if he can’t locate his fastball, like now, he’s really in a world of hurt. No second pitch to try to get a strike or at least change the look on the hitter…
And what happened? He pitched out of trouble with K and ground out. Game over.
Doval can’t close every single game. Giants pen 4 1.3 shut out innings. Solid group.
We just might give this one away
Jordan Poole lighting up Austin Rivers. Gotta love it.
Grind-it-out kind of win, stay hot in Cleveland.
Criminy, McGoo certainly doesn’t make it easy.
Nice series win already. Sweep tomorrow would be nice…
The last (out) Straw.
McGoo battles back,! Never easy the usual torture,but hey 3rd series win and now 6-2!!