Derby Day!
Thorpedo Anna was very very good to me in the Oaks yesterday. The Derby is wide open. Not even tossing out a pick. There are 7 horses I think who can win.
I saw the box score that we lost again. Pfffttttt……
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Hopefully things improve for Giants offense because otherwise this isn’t going to look good on Pat Burrell’s resume.
Riddle idk answer to is, what happened to Mike Tauchman? he was so bad a hitter for SF (OPS + of 56) in 2021 they sent him down to Sac, and waived him end of the year. He spent 2022 in Korea and this season has started 23 games in OF for Cubs, one of 5 teams in NL over .500.
He’s hitting .276 w OB over .400. In almost same number of PAs as Cody Bellinger, Tauchman has more XBHs and an OPS 100 points higher.
Maybe he learned something in Korea. My father did…
Way to go Flavor. Guy in the bar next to me needed her and was panicking at the half fraction which I thought was fine and she was doing it easily.
I can’t stand Repole and if he’s beatable it’s another dartboard derby.
Might take a stab on Prat’s horse…
Loo’s Knicks are great story. Philly series was epic, w Josh Hart hitting the 3 that wound up being game winner, and former Warrior (arrgghh) DDV nailing 2 clutch FTS to clinch it. Nova trio were fantastic, and DDV played all 48 minutes.
Hart is on his 4th team of 7 year career and transaction page in b-ball/ref reads like something out of Tolstoy. He came to Knicks in massive 4 team deal. Credit to Knicks for big trade w Toronto earlier, and now former teammates O G and Siakam will see each other again in semis.
Knick GM has really done a job. I don’t get that crazy from them but they’re a great watch especially since the OG heist, which most Knick fans were against cause they were in love with IQ. Rangers and Knicks have completely priced me out of the playoffs…
$408 will get you 1 ticket in the blue seats at MSG for Game 1 vs Hurricanes. My son and I contemplated taking the plunge but cost is prohibitive.
jeezus! $408 per, WOW!!
after transpo, a couple beer, and whatever, that’ll be near $1000 for two. Yikes!!!!!
wish the Warriors had gotten Siakam.
RIP Duane Eddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZymsInDEA&ab_channel=NRRArchives
Guitar players are still bending those notes.
Man, will A’s get a home game rained out? Been raining most of AM in south bay.
long delay at least. Odd so late in Spring but I remember the occasional rain out in May.
I don’t pay much attention to the a’s. I do drop in to see 9th innings. Every game I’ve sampled lately has lacked play by play lead Jenny Cavnar in the booth. Apparently all five thousand a’s fans have complained about her “voice.” Effing idiots.
I’m putting $10 on Honor Marie. Like that horse. My oldest went up to Philly last night and they were booed by the Philly fans. Close game and they had fun.
I’m picking Forever Young to win the Derby 🐎 has a great pole position at 10 compared to the favorite Fierceness at 17.As always just a hunch, good luck to any horse u like are bet on Flappers!
Should be a great race, I heard not one of the horses have gone a mile and a 1/4 before so endurance could be a factor..
“may you have a strong foundation / when the winds of changes shift”
Nearly as execrable as meatloaf’s cover of Dylan’s song
Not a krautrock fan either?
What do you like?
wow. Nose to nose finish on the turf.
The way SF is playing, I’m kinda rooting for a rainout…
the ominous clouds and persistent light rain bode well for your wish
Huh, was that Britney Eurton in red outfit and hat w hair pulled to one side?
Haven’t seen her in ages.
Flaca!
The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports. It’s certainly not the Giants going 3 up 3 down in any given inning
thirty seconds
So Jason Werth is a part owner has a horse 🐎 in the race named Dornoch?
I thought Jesus stopped by for a visit.
Wow!!! Fierceness faded hard. Crazy finish. Mystic Dan!
whoa what a finish
prat couldn’t quite get there from rail
That’s quite a 2nd round match-up, Denver vs. T-Wolves.
Early on this series looks like trouble for Denver.
Wow a 3 horse nostril finish at the end, great horse race 🏇🏻!!
Mystik Dan with a larger nose in the end for the win! Well I picked Forever Young and he was right there between both horses at the finish line and really came on strong 💪!Way more exciting then watching a Giants game and getting 3 runs are less in 8 straight games..
some years back my Lexington lawyer cousin, looking good in a her wide hat and fancy dress, posed for a photo with sharp dressed Julius Randle at the Derby. I really liked him as a college player. I’m disappointed he’s seriously injured now. I guess the jaunt to Churchill Downs is a common bucket list deal.
Great finish today.
Oh Flores stung one. Like to see him get going too, coming off good season 2023.
Murphy sucks.
More and more I don’t understand the pickup up of that guy. He needs to hit some dingers for it to make sense acquiring him. No way he’s better defensively than Bart…
Neo Winn against replacement — get the pen going.
Ballgame over already 2-0 no outs need a rainout now!!!
Estrada almost threw that away. wtf Thairo.
I liked Chapmans feed. Terrible turn tho.
Thanks.
Well, Giants playing horrible again. Like Casey Stengel said — can’t anybody here play this game? This team has achieved being annoying. Winn out already after 39 pitch inning.
Down 4-0, this game looks done before it’s barely started …
4 different hitters Winn just couldn’t put away w 2 strikes on them. walk to Realmuto on full count, singles by Marsh Stott and bloop by Sosa. yikes pen already in there.
yeah mainly station to station, as Pence noted. Too many stops on that local, however.
Funky weather-delay situation for Winn today and it didn’t go well. Part of the learning process.
Geez should only be one out Flores foot wasn’t on the bag and Phillies didn’t challenge!
4-0 and Winn is knocked out of game.Speaking of knockout here comes White to extend more misery for crap innings ..
Click.
Giants game plan now has to be send up some silver iodide rockets to get a rainout before 5 innings are done…
Murphy’s lobbying loudly, histrionically with the ump and Philly players for a rainout. No dignity. And he’s passing balls and throwing tantrums. So upset he allegedly hurt himself. What a leader.
Come on call this shit now!!! Rain OUT RAIN OUT RAIN OUT ☔️☔️☔️☔️
White’s doing his part not getting any outs.
I’ll give Slater a pass on that triple, the rain probably impacted his misplay, I guess. As for Murphy, no clue what happened there. He just bee-lined it into the clubhouse. This looks like a “wheels have come off” situation. No way they should be playing in rain like this. Sabol now looks like the first string catcher…
And they have now lost 2 catchers in back to back games! Sabol& I assume Fitzgerald now the back up catcher for Murphy who suck’s anyway.Phillies have no problem whacking the ball in these terrible conditions while Giants just begging for this pathetic game to end and fuck the umps/ ground crew for keeping this going and creating injuries,this is bush league.9-0 wtf 😳
i don’t think rules now allow teams to “protest” a game for any reason. So: Rule 7.03(3) — they can just refuse to play further. Wonder if you could make a case for a rainout if you defaulted for demonstrably good reason before 4 1/2 innings played?
Coincidentally, if a team forfeits a game, it goes in the record as 9-0.
oh it can get worse. Or better. Depends on the time of the call. Last mlb forfeit was Earl Weaver, in game, orioles v blue jays, 1977. 4-0. Muddy safety concerns.
These are the kinds of game conditions where the slipping can cause groin muscle pulls and put a player out for weeks.
like Murphy?
Every game is filled with at least one good sign! Yesterday Hjelle, today Slater! Who cares about the W-L record when all the signs are trending positive?
now I’m even more deeper in the blues
Slater!
Pedestrian line out to left.
After that catch, he had a chance to make us feel really great about the future.
No. Not even about the past. He’s done. Hjelle’s another thing tho. From the CF cameras and the guns his stuff can look pretty good. Maybe the slow, upright, motion he needs to use to command his pitches removes all deception? The batters can time and see the release real well? Randy Johnson didn’t throw like that.
Slater rakes lefties, may do it again, may not. He’s not that old.
Johnson didn’t, but Chris Young did. He had average stuff, but used his height to real advantage, deliberately coming over the top in his delivery. Hjelle is far more talented.
Slater raked a lightning bolt double down the line to walk off opening day 2022. I had a great club level view. I’ll always remember it. But I’ve seen a load of failure from him since. Raking a pedestrian out to LF sucks.
I’m not rooting against Hjelle. But I think his exaggeratedly slow, graceful, upright motion allows hitters to see his release clearly. His height doesn’t seem to give him the over the top advantage you’d expect. I’d say his numbers concur.
I’m actually not a big fan of Hjelle, he muddies the picture. Not that I’d be unhappy if he all of sudden turned it around. I just pointed out that another pitcher who had a very similar delivery with an 89 mph fastball and not much else recorded a lot of Ks and had some good seasons.
Hjelle has 8 IP this year, .0750 WHIP. 7 SOs. Hard to bitch about that. His athletic limitations seem unique. Last year’s numbers concern me.
On Wikipedia, reading about the forfeited games in MLB history is pretty entertaining.
Here’s one:
“Ten Cent Beer Night: A promotion held by the Cleveland Indians on June 4, 1974, backfired when intoxicated Cleveland fans ran onto the field and attacked Texas Rangers outfielder Jeff Burroughs with the score tied 5–5 in the ninth inning. This led to a riot in which the drunk and rowdy fans, armed with an array of improvised weapons and various other objects, including chunks of the stadium seating, brawled with players and officials from both teams as well as with the umpires, who subsequently forfeited the game to Texas.”
yeah it’s pretty easy to do your research these days. Now the challenge is to summarize with style and concision.
I think whoever wrote the Wikipedia piece on 10 cent beer night did a pretty good job of that…
lulz
I know it’s a lost cause, but Fitzgerald should be demoted for the sheer stupidity of that AB.
On TV, Suarez looks like the Giants’ version of Zito, uniform included. Why is someone with a flat 92 mph fastball 5-0 with that preposterous ERA?
Because his team can hit? ANd Zito couldn’t dream of throwing 92.
Average fastball velocity has gone up over the last 10-15 years.
Brian Wilson used to crow about throwing 93 with cut. It’s a brave new world with many strange arm injuries in it.
Randy Rodriguez, with an accent on the i, has raised my spirits.
That wasn’t the field conditions.
my old friend, the blues
Arraez with a four hit debut with SD.
The real shortsightedness was failing to go with Fitzgerald instead of Jeffries. They’ve now pitched a similar number of innings and Fitz is clearly worth a plugged nickel.
That’s 3 blowouts already this year, I think. But, hey, a loss is only a loss. Farhan, you idiot, where’s Joey Bart?
Just watched Mets lose 3-1 to Rays on two 2-out bases-loaded walks in the 8th. Hey, they all count the same. BTW, Littell started for Tampa and went 6 IP with 1 ER.
Incredibly, this isn’t the worst beating of the day — that belongs to the Marlins losing to the now-.500 A’s 20-4. And there are two other 11-run deficits: Rangers 15-4 over Royals, and in progress Pads 11-0 over Snakes.
Pfffffftttttt.
A complete and utter embarrassment for the Giants.
Conditions were poor, but both teams played in them.
10 walks, hit batter, 2 errors. 10 left on. And, looking like crap and out to lunch while doing it…
Meanwhile, Pads get Arraez and what is the Giants FO doing?
Farhan is mental masturbating whether Slater should go on the IL or waivers for another look see at Ramos…
My thinking about this team is that it’s a work in progress and it will continue to change and adapt (and get better). But it’s kind of hard to fathom how Melvin keeps putting a .125 hitter in the leadoff spot when the guy should probably not even be on the team. My hope has been that they are on the path toward building a rather set, sustainable lineup, to fulfill their promise of getting younger faster and stronger, and to not just appear as a concoction of players. In that light, I’d love to see Matos starting in RF and Ramos in LF, Luciano starting at SS, and Schmitt starting at 3rd. Those are potential long-timers, if they succeed. The likes of Conforto, Slater, Ahmed, and Chapman are not. Not sure what the team is waiting for, except for the fact that most of those “kids” are not exactly lighting it up in the minors. But they’re all we’ve got, and they really can’t be any worse than a handful of the current collection of mediocrity in SF. They sure as hell aren’t going to get any better hitting ML pitching as long as they’re not facing ML pitching. Bring ’em up already.
I’m with you on Ramos. Give him a shot. Dump Slater somehow. If he can field and run and rake someone will be interested. If Ramos falters give Matos another shot. But Chapman and Conforto are not problems. They’ll be good WAR players all year. I’d prefer Schmitt over Fitzgerald, but who else will pitch in forfeited games.
Sabol got two hits, pretty good.
And, back to his old tricks, a catcher’s interference…
That was a bizarre looking play. The hitter swung extremely late and Sabol didn’t extend his glove to receive the ball. It’s like Melvin challenged because he thought there wasn’t anything Sabol did wrong, even though the bat clearly hit the glove.
They must’ve mainlined Murphy some painkiller and sedative before this interview
https://x.com/extrabaggs/status/1786947433974354423?s=46&t=k0FDC_rVBvlG86Y-OHTiNQ
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It’s quite a name: Carson Whisenhut. He pitched very well for the River Cats tonight.
Luciano wasn’t in the starting lineup tonight, so that was a bummer.
Xoot, agree that Chapman and Conforto are not problems, per se, but I also don’t think they are solutions. Chapman (hitting around .220) already said he plans to opt out after this year, and Conforto (hitting .250 now after a great start, sliding back to his norm), is in the final year of his contract. Just not long-term solutions. Ramos or Matos for Slater is a no-brainer immediate thing, the other changes may take more time… but they should be made, IMO.
Wouldn’t be surprising. Ramos and Luciano should be up soon at least, maybe Schmitt too. Bottom line this team is only going as far as SPs and pitching in general. Unfortunately Webb Winn and to lesser degree Hicks haven’t been quite as good as earlier in season. Hopefully at least for first 2 recent outings were one offs and help from Sac can mitigate things.
Baseball really is a funny game, as Garagiola said ages ago.
Most hitters are streaky, as hitting is really hard. Yaz Estrada and Flores got off to bad starts that they have started to turn around. Conforto is opposite, and couple others like Soler haven’t gotten going at all.
Luis Arraez led NL in hitting at .354 last year, and yet he still made 300 outs. So you could post “arraez grounded out again” twice almost every day if all you focused on was negative, and still be right. I don’t look at baseball like that–even torture games are fun and exciting, win or lose.
and when stuff like yesterday happens players shake it off and get back at it, not getting too high or low over 6 months of season. good way to make your way through lot of things.
Like chopping wood, Jack Clark in his LAD hitting coach days told a guy I know. Hit it hard, Barry Bonds said. Although guy on tv Friday said that Bonds as hitting coach with the Marlins taught swing down on the ball and let your hips and follow through give it lift. Easy enough if you’re a great athlete with eagle eyes. Just square up the ball and round the bases.
Arraez 4 hit game in debut had Padres smoking DBax 13-1 for 4th W in a row.
That was preceded by SD losing 5 in a row including getting swept at home in middle of it by red hot Phils, dropping them 4 games under .500 Now they have retaken 2nd at 18-18.
Another club that got smoked last night? Atlanta Braves, as Dogs pounded 5 HRs off them at Latrine in 11-2 rout. Dogs beat them in 10 night before on walk off single by rookie Andy Pages. Braves have lost 4 of last 5 (scoring 13 runs total) and 5 of last 7.
Just saying, stuff happens to everyone over course of season.
Have we won three in a row yet? I’ll be happy to see that stuff happen.
It amazes me the Giants continue to keep 40 man roster spots for pitching chumps like Jefferies,White,Hjelle..
You guy’s know that Hjelle drafted in the same draft as Bart(2018) has a career ERA of 6.00 in 60 big league innings?He flat out Stinks! Guess the Giants still don’t want to lose faith in him since that happened to Bart, that was a terrible draft just cut losses and improve the 40 man roster quality..Don’t even get me started on a rant about White&Jeffries!!!!
2018 was a bad draft for a lot of teams. Best pick was probably Kyler Murray by OAK at 9. We all know why he slipped down to that spot.
The Giants’ top pick in 2019 has been a sad story so far. Bishop, an outfielder, had a major shoulder injury in the low minor leagues, and a year or two later had a major elbow injury.
but they grabbed the great Tyler Fitzgerald in the fourth round.
So I’m not seeing Mason Black being added on the 40 man and especially the 26 man roster right now!Even though they were saying he’s pitching tomorrow? And yet here we go again they put Jeffries back on the team ( to implode in another start?)ferchrissakes!!
Catchers now are Blake Sabol&Jaxson Reetz who was just activated to take both Bailey ( concussion)& Murphy (knee injury) this is messed up going forward.Atleast they dumped White for now as he was DFA’d but will end up back at Sac after no teams will certainly pick him up…
Boom 1-0 Giants couple rockets off wall already.
And another flailing, hacking whiff by the hapless Chapman.
Pavs says Mason Black is SP tomorrow.
Chapman whiffs on a mediocre belt high “hit me” fastball down the middle…
ESPN announcers apparently don’t know that Sabol caught plenty of games last season and is probably familiar with Webb…
They’re too busy blow jobbing the Phillies to notice…
Giants if they win will make 27 outs in 9.
Hopefully they can get 27 Phils out too and have better score by then.
Webb just made Schwarber look pretty silly, it’s what he does. gonna happen to lot of guys I imagine tonight.
Goddamn Keystone Cops.
Unbelievable.
if it wasn’t for bad luck
What a shock, of course the error ends up costly. Fucking Ahmed.
Ahmed’s silly error cost Webb the lead and many more tosses.Guess all teams will be also able to run wild on the new Giants catchers..
Ballgame. Click.
Ditto.
Ditto your Ditto
Ballgame for sure now if there was ever a doubt ..
Looks like the sweep is in store, barring a minor miracle.
The talent differential here is pretty wide.
Giants blow right now. Question is how long will this be allowed to continue without making some moves? As is, this doesn’t look like a wild card team to me. Getting close to 40 games in, Chapman’s bat is a huge problem. Schmitt with his .763 OPS in Sac might be a better hitter at the moment, and not too much worse as a fielder. I’m out…
they spent the second most this off season (after LA of course). I doubt they’re gonna blow it up 40 games in.
There’s another one tomorrow, unfortunately. And yeah, the talent gap is ridiculous. 0-3 vs. Dodgers, going on 0-3 vs. Phils, the Giants are thoroughly outclassed by the NL’s elite.
I’m so glad I was gone this weekend to miss all of this bullshit.
I raise you another ditto bassbaldy