Marching Onward
We let Washington off the hook several times last night. Shoulda smashed them 10-1. But it’s a good sign we still came out with a W. That team deserves to lose every game just due to that stupid shimy each hitter does when he gets to first base.
Hope Birddog knows how to pitch in the humidity…..
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It’s deja vu (as in 1968) all over again. LaMonte Wade Jr. is batting .298, which would be 6th NL if he had enough ABs to qualify. Ohtani leads league-at .306, followed by Arraez at .305 and 3 guys (Profar Ozuna and K Marte) at .300 even. Pads rookie J Merrill is 10th at .283.
wtf? 1968 I was listening to Otis Redding and Sittin on the Dock of the Bay in HS.
Reading A’s-Sox game story, A’s got 5 runs on 4 hits, mostly because Sox pitchers walked 9 (in 8 innings) and hit a guy. One solo HR by Lawrence Butler who homered off Giants, #13. A’s per story in Chron drew almost 82 thou for weekend series with Dogs. Which obviously won’t ever happen again. Back to 4900 “announced” last night.
Must be a new generation of Dodger fans. They took over Yankee Stadium a few weeks ago and these folks ain’t local. You rarely see anyone here wearing anything but Yankee or Met gear. Maybe the days of arrive late and leave early are over out there…
HS buddy of mine was ChiSox fan and he loved Tommie Agee who was there before he became a Mets hero. Awesome bio on SABR page…didn’t realize there was Gil Hodges AL connection, nor all the “firsts” Agee racked up with Mets in Championship series, WS etc.
That’s quite a story Loo, Dogs fans showing up all the way in NYC. Yanks still draw well? We sure see legions of dang Dogs fans in blue at Oracle.
Yanks pack the place every night. Far out draw the Mets whose park is 100x better. And believe it or not tons of pretty girls there dressed to distract you from the game. The place is a nightmare to drive to if you’re crazy enough to try it. Good luck getting out of the parking garages in under an hour post game, but a pretty quick subway ride from midtown Manhattan.
iirc Bum liked pitching in hot weather and said he loosened up easier. Grew up in North Carolina, different weather especially summer than SF lol.
speaking of NC, hoping all “locos” in the area safe n sound from tropical storm.
Thanks, Willie. We are keeping an eye on how it’s tracking, but right now we’re all set for minor flooding. We’ve been getting a ton of rain already.
I still vividly remember Chi, Loo, Mac, San Dawg and I leaving our seats after the game. We had just completed singing, New York, New York with these hot women behind us . . . and then we left. It was a fucking “scrum” all the way to the outside of the stadium. Fairly certain, we said our goodbyes to Loo, Mac, and San Dawg near the wall of the stadium, as we had different subway trains to catch. Chi and I continued our “scrum” and “ant slow” movement to the subway train we had to catch. Complete, fucking pandemonium. It must have taken at least 45 minutes to an hour just to get to the subway train we had to catch. Total time from end of game to beddie bye at our Bronx hotel took almost 1.5 to 2 hours.
Giants lost that game, but that being said, it was probably the best losing baseball experience I’ve ever had. Had a blast with Mac, Loo, Chi, and San Dawg. Photo we took before the game outside the stadium is classic.
Repost!!!
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Not certain this will work unca. I looked in the Flap Photo bucket, but this photo is not there.
A very happy memory. Feels like 20 years ago…
So much awesome! Bummed I missed that.
Thanks for posting, Loo. Tremendous pic!
Bevins Back to minors,For Birdsong’s start, Casali (paternity leave) Giants recall Jackson Reetz not thrilled but no choice Sabol needs to finish out his time from his latest Demotion.
Ramos expected back in Lu , we shall see?
If Fitz can just continue to handle SS defensively that will be big plus going forward. throws sometimes sail on him but he’s making all the routine plays.
Getting a chance to stick at one position should help. I think they had him play everything but catcher.
Good point. More I see it, less I value the flexibility of playing multiple positions.
Yeah, keep Edmund Fitzgerald at SS and let him settle in.
My wife and I will be at the game Saturday if anyone else is going to be there! Can’t wait. Living in Socal makes it harder. I haven’t been to the stadium since the Playoff game in 21. Hopefully it will be a better result this time. I had to promise the wife I’d have fun and not be a pain in the ass if we lose! Added bonus Aloha shirt giveaway:)
Webb pitching so I’m calling a 5-1 victory!
Wilmer out for the rest of the season.
Welcome back bro!
Ramos is back!
Birdaland is from Illinois and pitched in college there so he’s used to the heat.
Shouldn’t be a problem.
Still having problems really getting jazzed about this team as they lurch around the ,500 mark, but the kids are starting to really play better. Webbie has come around and Snell/Ray combo seems to finally be paying off.
As I work away my phone tells me Ramos just jacked one!!
Hah! Contorto twists one out of there!
Someone tell Birdland to keep the ball down.
Stomp their guts out!
Nice to see Ramos thumb feeling better!
1-0 with the bomb 💣
Oh hell yeah Conforto says last add on 3 more with that laser!!! 4-0
This is a good start!
I called a Sweep 🧹 and I’m sticking to it!! Giants hitting on all cylinders right now!
Go get ‘em Hayden!!
bye bye birdie. Come on man. Bottom of the lineup.
Stop walking guys w lead. At least make them hit their way on.
Birdsong limiting his own innings.
Shit that pitch was up in Pandas eyeballs power .
The walks set it up but not many tomahawk that out..
Ugh.
i think we have an answer about how Birddog pitches in the heat/humidity.
Bye Bye Birdie.
As usual Fleming already said that Birdsong is not coming out for the 3rd.And as usual eat some crow Dave.Stop your freaking Over analyzing, ok well maybe he did get this one right.
6-4 in a shootout.. 9 days off didn’t help Birdsong tonight, lots of rust
WTF? Before I answered the door (propane delivery), Gmen were up 4 – zip . . . Came back 10-15 minutes later and we’re behind???
well, there’s a lot of time left. Only down 2 is kinda lucky considering the fact Birddog had nothing tonight. Still don’t know how Abrams hit that ball out though.
That was another version of a little league home run.
Rodriguez threw 30 pitches that inning. Giants have already thrown 96 in 3 innings.
E-7 gets 1 back.
1-8 RISP doesn’t get the other run back though Mac..
Nats 5-9 RISP
Yeah, runner on 2nd no out, of course they didn’t get more.
How many fucking times can we leave guys on base? 1-10 with RISP and it;s the goddamn 5th inning. We should be up 6 runs.
This is fucking disgusting.
Rinse and repeat. Make it 1-11 RISP.
Why is Schmitt even on the team? He’s been scuffling for a year and a half. Move the fuck on.
What the fuck are you talking about? Giants will keep him 8 years a la Slater.
True. Sad but true.
Blog follow for blog follow? I write about the NY Mets.
Hi Mikayla . . . Welcome to the Flap! Flavor’s blog, but he will undoubtedly get back with you about your question. Did a cursory look at your blog – you write well! That being said, you’re our competition (grin).
Do you go to many games? Ever spend 4 innings on the Shake Shack line?
Hi! I wish I went to more games 😃
Ohhhh, Ramos comes in and watches it sail over his head. We really miss Lee.
Ramos is playing himself into a DH. Just like Luciano.
Jeez, getting shut down by Law.
What a frustrating game. Over and over we ger RISP with 0 or 1 out and can’t get a hit. Nats (who are a bad team) get runners over most of the time, and get them in. Hard to not lose hope re winning enough to make the playoff’s:(
Did Birdshit ask Kylie for gopher ball tips?
Pfffttt!
My hope is Wash is blowing their wad and we take the next 2. Otherwise we ain’t getting anywhere.
Cincy won already and St. Louis is ahead 4-2 in the 7th against Tampa Bay.
well if anything they increased their RISP average even higher going 1-14…
Ugly. Get em tomorrow.
Brebbia in to pitch bottom 9 as White Sox lead A’s 5-1. Scored 4 off Stripling by end of 5th
3 up 3 down streak over.
Yeah leave it to Stripling to end the Whitesox’s 21 game losing streak! Now the Sox’s will reel off 21 straight wins lol 😂 Brebbia aisle with his 6.17 era gets in done in the end.
yuuuuuuge k there