Right Out The Gate…..
Strider.
Lol.
You can get +115 on Strider going over 8.5 strike outs. 8.5+ is a massive K number to try to hit. But does it also….almost……seem low?
They live or die this year depending on how they do the next the next 16 games or so,……..
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Only hope is that they seem to play better in 2023 vs good teams than the lousy ones. I say we take 2/3!
Not recently. You never know, tho. The bats have to wake up. WTF is up w/Yaz?
Braves clobbering ball this season, tops NL for runs hit HRs BA OB slug and OPS. Olson has been on epic tear in last 2 months–he hit 25 HRs in 50 games. Biggest question fans have is whether Olson or Acuna are going to win MVP.
Hopefully pitching and D can keep games close for Giants to steal 1 or 2.
My heart tells me Giants could take 2 of 3. My head tells me they’re going to get their asses kicked…
Lol, that’s pretty much how I feel about all our series.
Yeah I left my heart in San Francisco once I saw the opponents on this Road trip they are cooked with no hitting and only Webb giving a glimmer of hope,but even he will probably get Cained! Krapler and his stupid moves are really irritating me.Lets leave Stripass in after he’s giving up 3 bombs on 9 hits just so Krapler can say he eats up innings and saves some arms is utterly BS.
Well, call this part of not getting any help at the deadline. Call Flaherty shitty but he’s a starter. Blaming Kapler for having to use the players available on his team is just silly.
EVERY team in the league it seems has 4-5 guys over 20 home runs. Our top guy has 15.
I’m amazed this team is even sniffing the playoffs with this shit line up.
Point being, do you think we will dip into the pen against ATL? Like hard?
Someone has to take the brunt of covering for future fuckups. Beyond that, would it have felt better to lose 3-1 instead of 6-1? Until this team hits, Nolan Marichal couldn’t save us.
Another interesting Athletic article from Baggs today, primarily about Cuban Darien Núñez, aaa reliever on the edge of being called up, but broadly about the Giants grab-and-stash industry. They claim seriously injured players (they claimed Núñez off waivers from the dodgers while he was under the knife in tj surgery) and rehab them at their huge AZ training facility. Scott Alexander, eg. Apparently, no other team chases ambulances so zealously.
That reminds me of Baalke drafting injured players in just about every draft. The only one that ever turned out great was Gore and that was a McClouhan(sp) pick. At least Z’s are not as expensive.
Yeah good luck to this guy, who told dodgers “hell no” when they tried to get him back.
Great free healthcare and rehab, and a guaranteed salary, too? No wonder he’s on the right side of the rivalry now.
I can’t believe we have 3 games in a row not involving a pen starter. Cobb-Webb-Wood.
Pods bums halos all looking at a tropical storm flood watch (Palm Springs deluge too, in August). Hmmm. What’s going on?
What could it be? No idea, but rest assured, if Trump was president, these natural disasters wouldn’t happen.
He’d step up to the map and redirect the storm’s path with his sharpie. Let’s see Biden do that.
Yeah, they need the water just not all at once.
Hopefully the fuel industry and the politicians who support them and the big polluters will realize that profits won’t matter much when their customers are dying
Think the fossil fuel industry makes a lot of money during disaster recovery and relief efforts? That may distract them from the long term concerns, just a bit.
Greed is a tough one to control
Kapler suspended a game for getting tossed? When did this start happening?
Fuck. Get rid of the umps entirely. Shit’s getting worse, not better.
Looks like Kap’s suspension is due to being too close to dugout by the batting cage after his ejection. Seems a bit petty.
Looks like Kap’s suspension is due to being too close to dugout by batting cage after his ejection. Seems a bit petty.
Well, the umps ain’t making that call
Batting cage? During teh game? Huh? He was in the dugout.
He copped to violating “spirit of the rule” after ejection and report in Chron said he high fived Joc after he scored on slide. It wasn’t for the argument on field itself.
Yeah, now I remember that high five. Seemed odd at the time.
We’re so down the return of Haniger and Brebbia looks like up to us.
There’s a Doors song in there somewhere.
Still don’t get it. Did he come back or not? They never showed him. Who saw him?
Title of Richard Fariña’s novel, taken from v old Furry Lewis recording.
At 2:31
Read that book 1,000 years ago. About when I started tripping. 1976? Catcher in the Rye for the tune-in-turn-on-drop-out crowd . . .
Published mid 60s after he married Mimi Baez, whom twin once claimed he fucked when they were both in the same cancer recovery group. Probably lied about the fucking.
thanks. Some great photos in that vid along with the music.
Like this guy a lot. Sounds like a favorite of mine, Robert Johnson . . . https://youtu.be/wK7kaJfOU0g
The world is very lucky Robt Johnson made those two trips to Texas to record what two or three dozen songs total.
xoot . . . I always get him and Skip James mixed up. You reminded me that Skip had similar circumstances, as he was an itinerant singer/guitar player for years, before being “discovered” at the Newport Folk Festival (1963 or 1964). World would never have known about him, Son House, and others, as was the case with Johnson.
Luckily those guys survived. Johnson died before Alan Lomax could get to him. Johnson’s “stepson” and student Robert Jr Lockwood and his ramblin partner Johnny Shines went on to successful careers in Chicago.
Classic Bluesman.
Oh damn.
RIP Pee Wee and Sly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlieo6mM7rk
Thanks for the laugh.
Kap is so FOS. He just said he *made that mistake because I love being around this team so much, that’s why i did what I did.”
Trying to stay optimistic, Giants held Braves to only 2 in 1st.
8.5 K’s is way to low for Strider who’s just toying with this pathetic LU.. 6 K’s out of the 1st 8 batters lol 😂
3-0 and it’s Ballgame already the only drama left do they get a hit?
We’re on pace for a 12 zip drubbing. I see Angel Hernandez is at 2B; so, he’ll be behind the plate Sunday. Since he returned from some sort of rehab stint, he’s fully reclaimed his title, and that’s impressive given how bad many of his colleagues have been this season.
Braves wearing a Quikrete arm patch pretty much cements a win..
There is some good news. Cubs lost to Royals earlier and Nats are up on Phila 8-6 in 7th. No hit Lorenzen gave up 8 of them in3.1 innings 7 runs, 6 earned
i’d love to see the stats on guys first game off a no hitter. Especially the last 20 years or so. I bet they are so bad. They run up that pitch count to get the no no and it seems like they’re all too pussy to pitch well the next game
Reds beat Jays, not good news.
We have more base runners on HBP than actual hits.
Fucking amazing.
Gawd, this team is making the 2007 team look like murderer’s row.
Wow. Not much left to say about how bad this team is.
Born to lose.
Good thing I had preseason football to distract me.
Just when everything’s goin’ fine, lose my grip and slide,
Bounce the rock and catch the ball, bound to fall…
Craw struck out three times, and his batting average is now .194.
Pretty sad ending to his career.
Something to be said for the way Will Clark and Posey ended their careers. Walking away with their dignity fully intact.