It Starts Now
Well, not sure where we go now. Rodon wiping out the Pirates tonight would be a good start. I’m happy to just sit back and watch this unfold.
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How’s Del Mar treating you boss?
I just hope the game is without a bunch of SF boneheaded plays,
Yeah exactly Bozo. Just want to see some good baseball played like in first game W vs. SD.
No illusions, this is team that since going 14-7 in April is 40-50 since.
After stretch vs. under .500 teams like Pirates DBax Rox and Tigers, Giants go right back into fire.
14 games vs. playoff teams Twins Padres Phillies Dogs and Brewers starting Aug 26.
Still can’t get over Timmy marrying his terminally ill gfriend a month before she died. That dude is incredible.
Wonderful thing to do, still a class act.
Feeling it today for Timmy.
My hat’s off to him…
Timmy is nothing but class and during this heartbreaking 💔 time for him goes my deepest sympathy for Christin and families! Giants should immediately retire #55! Forever Giant and the utmost respect needs to be done by the organization..RIP Christin 🙏🧡🖤
Pirates are dead last in NL for runs hits doubles BA OB Slugging and OPS. They aren’t a speed team, 8th in league with 57 the entire season. 9th in HRs but Suwinski isn’t around to bother Giants either.
Rodon and Webb going tonight and tomorrow Giants should be capable of 2 out of 3 this weekend. Any updates on Bart and his ankle?
sounds like he had planned to be here for the 2012 reunion but I’m assuming this terrible news means he won’t be attending now.
Bozo, when I visited you a few years ago, I recall the wind and surf being unbelievable. The freaking bridge (almost level with the water) leading to your area was especially disconcerting. Anyway, did you read about this lady getting killed by an umbrella at this S. Carolina beach?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/us/south-carolina-beach-umbrella-death/index.html
Thanks for the heads up. I’m supposed to be down that way in a couple of weeks.
Right now delayed at DC, hurry up and wait.
And to pile on yesterday’s lede, how about another day or two of pen rest, and the SPs go 7, 8 or 9? As Baggs said in Athletic yesterday some of these guys are “gassed” and it’s only August with 50 more games left.
Have the best 2 pitchers going Rodon &Webb so yeah deep into the game is vital!
Not getting new arms at the deadline are hanging onto Rosenthal&Boyd was just dumb..
Dog days of Summer with a worn out BP will not get the job done getting a W/C spot which is looking bleak at best..
Tatis Jr nailed for PEDS…
80 games someone texted me!
LMAO! Ouch!
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/08/fernando-tatis-jr-suspended-80-games-for-performance-enhancing-drug-violation.html
Padres statement reads like Ward Cleaver wrote it…
Just a coincidence Tatis and Cano families from San Pedro de Macoris in DR? Tatis Sr. managed the team from there Estrellas Orientales (Eastern Stars) to DR championship 2018-19 according bio info on B/R.
ringworm
1. Joc Pederson (L) LF
2. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
3. Wilmer Flores (R) 3B
4. Mike Yastrzemski (L) CF
5. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
6. Thairo Estrada (R) 2B
7. LaMonte Wade Jr. (L) DH
8. Luis Gonzalez (L) RF
9. Austin Wynns (R) C
P: Carlos Rodon (L)
Blade, I think you went over the Alligator river bridge. That is one weird ass draw bridge. Hadn’t read about that SC beach death by umbrella, what a way to go. Headed to Cleveland right now, I’ll check it out when we land in a couple of hours.
I can’t recall it being a draw bridge, but I was so fixated at how close the road way was to the water and with the waves smashing against it, I said, this fucker is going down in a hurricane . . . and now that you mentioned “Alligator” bridge – I do recall you saying that during lunch, which of course made it worse on the return trip. lol
Zach Wilson may have torn ACL.
Just speculation.
Calling Jimmy G?
What’s hysterical is if you follow this shit, there are now about 26 teams in the running to get Jimmy. The Giants are dissatisfied with Jones and Tyrod, the Falcons are not happy with Mariota, Trubiscuit is sucking in Pittsburgh, The Bucs might want insurance for Tom Tom. The Saints with Jameis and Darnold? Please.
Even before the knee injury, Wilson could be looking for a mentor and the team a tackling dummy to absorb the punishment till they build their line.
Not to mention the Browns, Seattle, Houston, and Carolina.
Wating for Jolly Roger to lower the boom on DeShuan (illegal use of hands) Watson. Jimmy is likely headed to the factory of sadness.
Killed by a fucking umbrella? Funny thing is, this is my fate. I’m going to leave this mortal coil in some ludicrous way. I’ve had nothing but ridiculously stupid injuries my entire life. Bit my tongue off playing frisbee by tripping over a curb and landing on my chin with my tongue out (18 stitches to sew it back on) split my eyelid completely open falling on a boulder playing football in a friend’s back yard by landing on the rock with my face. His poor mom passed out when I closed my eye to check the wound out, and my eye reappeared, 5 stitches in my other eye lid leaning back in a chair and falling forward into a glass table.
Real funny thing is, i never broke a bone until I was 14 but I had around 300 stitches.
Great stuff Chuck! lulz
Once I turned 20, shit got really weird.
All I remember are the fatal accidents I avoided.
Huh Wilmet at 3b with LHP Rodon on mound. Guess we’ll find out if his arm is OK or not.
What channe; is the Giants game on? Not seeing it on streameast
Same old same old, nbcbayarea.
I guess the Giants are blackballed form Streameast.
Bucs uni is drabbest ever. Had some really cool ones in past.
Yazzzz!
old school sac bunt paid off with Gonzalez driving ball deep enough for Crawford to score.
thairo, yikes.
Fuck. Why don’t we know how to run the bases? WTF is wrong with these guys?
Tagging on a flyball to left field. Fucking brain dead.
A risp that doesn’t score? Really? We have to lead the league by 250% in this stat.
Official scorer gave him rbi on the play where 1b bounced throw home. No error given, 2 rbis for Yaz tonight.
Wynns would have been easy out. Our boy WAR has BA up to .233 now.
How many outs, Brandon?
Whoa. How does that happen?
Now Craw gets picked off. What the actual fuck?
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaand…
Belt tagging up on a fly ball with two outs, and Craw getting picked off first base is some classic ’22 Giants.
Yeah, that’s something out of ’70s Giants.
Are these dudes paying any attention to this season?…
Zafucky,
That Ruf trade looking a little dicey at the moment…
Giants knew what they were getting…
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN202205250.shtml
Someone on twitter decoded Kapler’s intro on Szapucki today to mean that they saw him tipping pitches when they faced him, and so lit him up, but slyly figured they could fix that. Makes more sense than the actual reason for taking him, I bet, but I doubt it’s true.
it was one of the beat writers, btw, who, after listening to Kapler’s opaque discussion directly asked about pitch tipping and described Kapler’s response as evasive.
The pen snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Never seen young pitch well. a first!!
Longo hurt running?
Wilmet got him.
Whoosh. Man what a strain that was.
straight as a string?
Doval looks good when he’s not overworked — developing well. new two seamer helps.
Slush with nice column on Flores, opening with line that Kap is president of Flores fan club, to which he heartily agreed. Takes grounders every day at 1b 2b and 3b. Giants have to re up Wilmet. Lot of negativity from Chron bloggers but all of them like Flores
I think Kap is rolling with 14 position players these days before rosters expand. hmmnn
Thinking about what Chuck wrote about his accident history and particularly what Xoot said about the fatal accidents he avoided . . . I have 2 off the top of my head – at age 12 or 13, diving in a gully to avoid being hit by a speeding car, while walking in the mountains of Honolulu, Oahu.
Another one was age 22 at Guernsey island in the English Channel on vacation. I fell asleep while sunbathing at a beach, which is only accessible by walking down this steep, rocky, outcropping that’s shaped like a horse shoe. Almost 50 people there before I fell asleep and when the tide came up, just me. lmao . . . Barely made it back up the rock outcropping, with the surf pounding at my heels.