Another Comeback Win
I forget what year it was but it wasn’t all that long ago. Maybe 2018 or 2019? Whenever the opposing team would score first, even if was just a run or two in the first inning a Flapper would just respond with “Game over.”
LOL those days are long gone, aye?
It is so refreshing to have a team that doesn’t quit when they’re down. A team that can mount a comeback. A team that never thinks it’s over.
As a fan what more could you ask for from your guys?
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Ok gents, we have a toe update. My buddy Chris flew to Florida to go to their timeshare. At the request of his wife who feared retaliation at the beach by angry rednecks he took off the nail polish. But because he is superstitious and as a silent protest he left one remaining toe painted. However if the Giants go into a tailspin starting today I am blaming Rachel for it…..
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I want us to win and win big.
I want us to make our fans proud.
I want us to make our parents proud, our grandparents proud,
our first and second cousins proud, our POONTANG proud and
ourselves proud. Now let’s go!!!
Definitely notice “strong up the middle” comments from Giants fans around blogosphere.
Craw, btw, is hitting almost .270 this month and combined OPS for May/June above .700 and right around league average for OPS+. Only has 10 Ks this month in 50 ABs.
Schmitt, after great May with .800 OPS, is having awful June. 7-50 with 16 Ks, OPS of .446.
Maybe he gets start today somewhere but resurgence of Craw with bat lately pleasant surprise.
Someone had to light a fire under Craw’s ass.
Seems like someone steps up their game on a daily basis. The Players have to be having a good time with this.
When are the Giants going to have a Taylor and Tyler Rogers bobblehead day?
I think that would have a weird Diane Arbus vibe. But they’ll probably do it.
Lets get that sweep!
1. Joc Pederson (L) DH
2. Thairo Estrada (R) 2B
3. Michael Conforto (L) RF
4. J.D. Davis (R) 1B
5. Blake Sabol (L) LF
6. Patrick Bailey (S) C
7. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
8. Luis Matos (R) CF
9. Isan Diaz (L) 3B
P: Anthony DeSclafani (R)
Was June 2003 the last time the Giants swept a four game set vs the DBacks when they were both vying for first place? The famous Barry Bonds birthday walkoff finished that one. Ray Durham also hit a HR over our RF bleacher seats. In fact he may have hit two HRs in the game. Can’t clearly recall. But I do remember that it was a great day.
Ah this is a three game series. Got carried away
And it was July then. Memory. Old timers disease. Still. I never expected either of these teams to be where they are now.
What is crazy to me is 20 years ago we were playing at Oracle.
seems like only yesterday as they say
Gonna need another comeback.
Man. Keep it at one. Disco better not demo.
Nice play by Estrada there.
Didn’t know Longoria plays RF Kuiper for the Giants?
Tiki mai tai mug kicking in early?
How the fuck do you miss that from ONE foot away? He’s out by 6″ and the ump misses it.
Donation for the blind indeed. One of my favorite baseball stories.
Yeah Kat that was funny.
the third rocket hit off DeSclafani already, no.
Doesn’t look like the ERA going down any, again.
Disco essentially with 3 gopher balls. He just looks like total crap.
I hope he’s not scheduled to pitch next Saturday at Mets game I’m likely going to.
Stripling was activated today.
Oh joy.
The first base ump is three feet from the play and still blows the call, lulz.
Ha! I just saw Chuck’s post.
The penalty if we lose today.
LMAO!
OMG. Disco sucks and swallows.
Rachel should perform the cutoff..
nice to see so many people back in the ballpark
Give him credit, since pickoff McCarthy at 1b DeSclafani has retired 8 of 9. Gave up the one single then got Longoria for the GIDP.
FFS, this pitcher’s got his ERA under 5.00 now.
Yeah, we ain’t exactly hittin’ ’em where they ain’t. Lots of loud contact though.
Shit. Facing Tom fucking Seaver today.
Luke Jackson to the DL
Stripling activated oh boy for a starting role I assume..
Way to come through JD we’re on the board!
On the board!
I love how my claim that Disco looked like crap could still be debated, but poor WillieD is forced to give him credit because the ERA definitely went down.
Hi all,
I may have missed it but did Schmidt get sent down? Who is Diaz and why is he playing over Schmidt? I know he is struggling, but play him or send him down. Sitting isn’t helping…
PS slowed down the replay on my dvr and he was out at 3rd. Glad it didn’t matter.
@ Chuck BAHAHA!!
Oh well. Nice pitch there, Shitter.
Wtf Sabol. He sometimes seems like Doubon’s double.
Brutal baserunning error
Aaaargh!
Blake Sabol /Ruben Rivera with his bonehead rally killer! WTF was he doing? Just kept running with his head down oblivious of what is happening..
Longoria preserved the lead with that stop.
Sabonehead.
Sabol missed:
Longo getting the ball
Davis stopping at 3rd
Hallberg with the stop sign
Other than that . . .
And why do the Giants need Diaz up here for?
LH strike outs
Well, they’ve run out of bodies to call up with all the guys out. At least Wisely has a batting average.
Saw the play again, and Longo held the ball for a good 6-7 seconds while Sabol was staring at the ground while he ran.
It’s like he was listening to the crowd instead of looking at the play. Frustrating.
It was a TOOTBLAN.
“Thrown Out On The Bases Like A Nincompoop.”
Exact replica of the Dodger blunder last weekend. Guy rounding 2nd (betts) didn’t notice his teammate still on 3rd…
Leave it to Beaver started on TV a little before my time, and always seemed to belong to a different era, the gee whiz 1950s. I don’t think the show did well in syndication with later generations. When I was a kid, nobody I knew watched it. We were all watching re-run syndicated snarky shows like Green Acres and I Dream of Jeannie.
The thing I find interesting about Leave it to Beaver is something I read recently, that it originally aired in an era when it could have 39 episodes per season. 39! Per season! Wow, how things have changed in the TV world.
“You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me. I can get you a toe. . . . Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish.”
Here’s a description of the pilot episode of Leave it to Beaver:
“Beaver and Wally collect 1,000 bottle caps thinking they can redeem them for a bicycle at the Franklin Milk Company. Mr. Baxter, a company executive, has heard nothing about such an offer and his call to the home office returns no information. Nevertheless, he sends the boys to a shop to select a bicycle at the company’s expense. Mr. Baxter later learns no offer was ever extended and reclaims the bicycle. Ward buys the boys a new bicycle.”
A repossessed bicycle, lulz!
What an astounding amount of litter bottle caps were in those days.
Back in those days, of course, the glass bottles for soda pop could be turned in to a grocery store for a little money. For kids finding the bottles, that basically meant some candy money.
Imagine the sad employee sent to repossess the bike.
“How was work today, honey?”
“I had to take a bicycle away from some kids. My soul died a little today.”
The Honeymooners always seemed real to me in the 50s, although the adults were apparently too poor to support kids. Then the Flintstones came along. Now there was artistic representation that made sense.
Some shows just don’t age well.
The Jackie Gleason character sort of jokingly threatening to punch his wife each week got laughs at the time, but horrifies people today.
I loved the Batman TV show at the time, but it’s incredibly cringe-worthy now. At the time I didn’t realize how campy and silly it was. Same with Lost in Space.
I remember an essay about the how manipulatively the breasts of virtuous women were portrayed in Hollywood films and tv shows in the 50s. Faux modesty, I guess. A lot of it, as I recall, concerned the way the tailors/seamstresses wrapped Grace Kelly’s tits in the movie Shane and how the director often foregrounded the result. June Cleaver got some space in the piece, too.
I think you missed the points.
No cleavage for Mrs. Cleaver.
yeah the virtuous women were small and firm, but assertive. iirc. Grace Kelly was the apotheosis.
Watching Felipe Lopez story on ESPN2 good stuff. Dominican Dream
Just one more, the next episode of Leave it to Beaver that aired.
“Beaver’s new teacher, Miss Canfield, gives him a note after class to take home. Beaver’s classmates convince him that the note means he is going to be kicked out of school. Worried that he will be the first second-grader in the school’s history to be “‘spelled” (expelled), Beaver hides the note.
The next day, Miss Canfield finds the note under Beaver’s desk and instructs him to take it home. Beaver loses the note on the way home. Wally helps Beaver in his predicament by writing a note (from “Mrs. Ward Cleaver”) to Miss Canfield assuring her that Beaver has been whipped for his offense. The next day, Miss Canfield is at a loss trying to understand such a severe response to her request that Beaver play Smokey the Bear in a school pageant. She calls June to the school. When Beaver discovers where his mother is headed, he runs away and climbs a tree. When Ward, June, and Wally find Beaver in the tree, they are unable to persuade him to come down. June decides to leave him there even if it rains. Beaver comes down to get his raincoat. The next day, he has a talk with Miss Canfield and asks her to call him “Beaver” rather than “Theodore”. He offers her some tips on understanding second-graders. The following day, Beaver leaves for school carrying his most precious object for Miss Canfield — a rubber shrunken head.”
The women in those ‘60s shows were so dreamy. Jeannie (no pun intended,) Ginger and Mary Ann, I forgot the name of the woman in The Avengers, Mrs. Douglass in Green Acres, Samantha in Bewitched, and there were others. All of those shows were hugely popular in syndication, except for maybe The Avengers.
Zumie…Avengers Gal was Diana Riggs a total Fox!
Same goes for Barbra Feldon agent 99 in Get Smart..
I had a major crush with Linda Evans as Audra in the Big Valley she was super cute..
Also thought Donna Reed on her show would of been a cool mom just as much as Mrs Cleaver..
Donna Reed had a standard Hollywood rack, good legs. She got typecast because her face was so sweet, so straight. I hated that fucking show of hers.
Mrs. Emma Peel in the Avengers.
The name was supposed to indicate that the character had “man appeal”…
I was trying to watch the ESPN Sunday night game, but all the in-game interviews wreck it for me. I so hate those interviews. Complete disruptions of the broadcast.
There’s nothing more L.A. Angels than beating the Rockies 25-1 in a game, but losing the series to the Rockies.
Astros choke away the 8th inning again.
Well, we’ve learned over the years, we can’t rely on any help. The Giants always have to take care of the Dodgers themselves.
“Thank God the Padres choked.”
Ashkon! I thought of that too.
Astros TOOTBLAN in the 9th inning.
10 inning, I mean.
Wow. Slick play by dubon there.
Giants still in 2nd.
Dubon does give the Giants some help with a great defensive play. Astros eek out the win.
Do get some help by a tremendous play by ex Giant Dubon a saving a tying run as the Astros hold off for 6-5 win!! Giants stay in 2nd..
Yeah, Dubie did us a solid there.
I’ll bet the essays about that generation of female tv characters were all written by child psychiatrists.
Honor Blackman was hot too (Cathy Gale Avengers . . . and of course, Pussy Galore in Goldfinger).
Even better . . .
Bond: Who are you?
Pussy: My name is Pussy Galore.
Bond: I must be dreaming.
Bond movies were the first “adult” type movies I ever saw, beginning with Dr. No at the Mountain View drive in. I think I was 7 . . . Needless to say, movies such as The Absent Minded Professor, 101 Dalmations, Pollyanna, etc., quickly were in my rear view mirror.
I remember standing in line with friends at a theater in Rushden, England, to see Goldfinger when I was 12. We were nervous. What if they didn’t let us in? They did. (Of course, they did; they wanted our shillings.) It was strange. The movie seemed to be aimed directly at us.
Cool story xoot. I remember when Thunderball came out, they had a double feature at the Sunnyvale walk in theater, with Thunderball and I think Goldfinger (or maybe From Russia With Love). Anyway, back then you could stay and watch them as long as you want. Two of my buddies and I watched each of them twice. lol . . . Only Thunderball was the first run movie. 1965 or 1966 I think.
Mrs Peel was HOT! My parents were stationed in England until just before I was born in 65, and loved the spy shows!
I was in England 62-65. USAF dad. Stones, Beatles et al. The Avengers got my attention too.
Midlands. We lived out in the country on Chelveston, which otherwise was dormant, and my dad drove to Alconbury to work on the flight line. Landowners around us lived in thatched roof manses and drove jaguars. Except for one guy who owned an Aston Martin. The bobbies on bicycles armed only with whistles had no chance.
Where were your parents stationed? Same question for you xoot. I was in the Air Force on a medical rescue team at RAF Mildenhall (during the mid 70s).
RAF Lakenheath was a few miles away too. Frequently there as well.
Sorry. Response above.
Mildenhall rings a bell. My LL team or LL all star team played Mildenhall I think.