Still No V W’s
I’m still not throwing Justin into the Big Titty Volcano just yet. He wasn’t good but a lot of starting pitchers aren’t good. And it was another winnable game for the team that he pitched in. Matt Williams is there for his gritty manly old school look. I think there’s a decent chance Kate Upton could coach 3rd base better…..
I know you guys follow Jomboy, his breakdowns are just fantastic. This one on the Caitlin Clark fight thing is one of his top 10 in my opinion. Zumiee– what up with your girls, this shit is starting to get out of hand.
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that’s wild. I may stop by the occasional wnba game now for the chance to see brawls. I think they could improve the sport if they put roller skates on the players and banked the sides of the court for speed.
Huh I couldn’t get it to load. Clark didn’t do much yesterday but her team won on the road vs. another good team in Seattle.
Nothing at all said about Clark in game recap on cbs…what “fight” is this guy talking about?
I couldn’t get it to load either. It says: “page doesn’t exist” ..?
Slusser said Chapman might be back by next homestand. also Eldridge out 4 weeks with hamstring strain.
I could give a rats ass about Catlin Clark but her teammate the Enforcer Sophie Cunningham gets my respect in this bush league.She is Hot as Hell and now has over 1M followers on Tic Tok.She’s got Clark’s back as the Marty McSorley to Catlin’s Wayne Gretzky…
Wow, Marty McSorley, good pull there, AK… Saw Oils a few times at Boston Garden back in those days. Enforcers were kind of cool until they crossed the line, as he did with that “assault”…
Semenko was also a major goon for the “Drunk One”…
Someone on that team has to have her back. I don’;’t care one way or the other, and I don’t watch, but most of the time it looks like her teammates could give a rat’s ass she’s getting fucked with all the time.
Williams sending Devers and not sending Lee a few games earlier is just stupid beyond belief. For obvious reasons. Lee’s run would have won the game, he’s fast.
Devers send took the bat out of Wilbur’s hands and was a rally-killer. Devers is nursing a groin strain and just ran all-out to prevent a double play.
Loved Williams as a player but get him the fuck out. He’s costing us games.
Lee’s Run would of only tied it up Unca, yeah he would of scored for sure if not the incompetence of Williams.That game was heading into Ghost game at best.Think you were expecting a hobbled Schmitt at the time to hit a walkoff bomb but struck out instead to end the game..
“Many who responded to The Athletic’s player poll this spring said most of their direct messages on social media feature fans asking for reimbursements for lost bets. Some manage to be funny. But with the more serious threats, which can include specific information or a harsher tone, players have noted a difference since sports betting operations were legalized on a larger scale and formed partnerships with MLB.”
from a piece in the Athletic today. Kennesaw Mountain Landis and Bart Giamatti would be pissed. Manfred couldn’t care less.
Shit, there are death threats all the time on twitter and insta, social media being what it is.
The smartphone will be the downfall of western civilization.
Thanks, Steve.
I admit it comes in very, very handy at times but there’s nothing in this world that I hate more than my fuckin phone. On the subway the other day I counted over 80% of the riders in my car were staring at their phones. The big motto here since 9/11 is “if you see something, say something”. All the complacent dumbbells here see is their Candy Crush score…
Whis got hammered last night. 4.1 6 hits 4 BBs 2 HRs 7 earned. ERA up to 4.64
the *fight* was well documented, overly documented, on social media. It happened maybe 10 days ago or so?
oh yeah. Zum and I talked about that one and one after. Old news/move on.
Mabrey gal (good scorer) had to miss game over Clark knockdown and her team got blown out without her by Valks.
Yeah looks like no help from Wish coming up after that dreadful performance.Control is still a major issue with him.Really theirs no help at Sac as the hitters continue to suck.Luciano,MatosMeckler all low averages yikes maybe McCray? But he’s only hitting .262
.262 is elite in 2025…
MLB free game is Pit@Mil, Skenes vs Misiorowski, both are exciting young phenoms.
Man, if I were a Pirates fan, I’d be monumentally pissed off.
Talk about owners laughing all the way to the bank.
4 winning seasons, and 3 playoff berths, in the last 32 seasons.
This one is making the rounds on twatter. Bullshit of course as the foul is on the screener that you can’t see, not Clark.
It’s a terrible call, he’s right about that; but he’s wrong that “nobody watches the WNBA.” The viewership and TV ratings have grown a lot in the last couple of years. The league has its own identity now. And guys are drooling over photos of Sophie Cunningham.
The Jomboy video is great!! He has a novelist’s eye for detail. Very interesting! I learned some things I didn’t know about the whole situation. His video is available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLg35MNwDTA
There’s concern that the WNBA refs aren’t up to the task, or the rules aren’t up to the task. But that concern is also in the NBA. Players are grabbing and shoving on defense in both leagues. Players are stiff-arming opponents and shoving on offense in both leagues. The sport needs to get cleaned up. It leads to players getting into fights.
Bottom line? Majority of the league players don’t have a clue that Clark is their “meal ticket” out of obscurity and more important to them, MO’ MONEY.
Yeah, I saw this almost 2 weeks ago and Clark is an “assassin” on the court. Great floor leader, deadly 3 point shot, passer, defender, etc. Other players better end their jealousy or like I said, they’re shitting on their meal ticket.
Very well said!!
Somebody made the point that she could leave the WNBA and start her own league with currently unsigned players, and her league would have more viewership than the WNBA. I think that actually might be true.
Well, fucking with CC gets you guaranteed coverage from the likes of ESPN. Will that lead to anything? Maybe, maybe not, but it is their 15 minutes.
Think Chuck Bednarik crumpling Frank Gifford.
If these girls don’t get that CC catapulted their league into a different stratosphere, what kind of glue are they on?
She probably could. She wont though. Why? SHE LOVES COMPETITION AND WANTS TO PLAY AGAINST THE BEST.
Yeah, she did do some weight-lifting in the off-season, and got more muscular, just as Curry did early in his career. She and Curry have a similar arc to their careers, although, obviously Curry has four rings now, as he enters the latter stage of his career.
How about those Valkyries! If the playoffs started today, they’d be in! In fact, they’re the 6th seed at the moment. They’re hungry and scrappy, and any team that takes them a little lightly is going to get a surprise.
And, to no one’s surprise, the attendance at the Chase Arena has been awesome and awesomely loud.
Not picking on you Zum, but the playoffs don’t start today and it’s one my 30 trillion pet peeves when people use that line. In fact knowing you from here only, I would think this is the kind of thing that would irk you as well…
Yeah, normally yes; but the Vals are an expansion team, so it’s just a fun thing to say about them. They are surprising!
Also, it’s important to note that the WNBA regular season is only about half the games of the NBA, so the Valkyries are a legitimate playoff contender, which would be huge for the team and the fans.
Yeah, I have many pet peeves too in sports. An outfielder with a great arm always has a cannon. A well-pitched game is always a gem. I don’t like when basketball broadcasters refer to the basket as “the cup.”
And I absolutely hate the phrase: “Giving the player their flowers,” meaning complementing them. I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It rankles, and I don’t even really know why, but it really rankles.
Oh, and calling an easy basketball shot a “bunny.” Hate it!! What happened to the broadcasting in the sport!! We miss you, Bill King!!
“Scoring the basketball,” “Rebounding the basketball,” arghh, just awful.
Reggie Miller dressing in Indiana gear and openly rooting for Indiana during the finals. What the heck is that? It’s lame for a broadcaster to do that, IMO.
Have you heard “he has good bat to ball skills”?
God help us…
Better than ‘toting the rock’.
Well, when you have James Harden and LeBron getting brush fouls continuously while Steph (and others) gets tossed around like a ragdoll off the ball, or even during shots, then you have shit like this that smacks of fixing. Given the gambling money floating around every sport now, you have to wonder.
The playoffs were especially obvious regarding Steph. One call on an obvious foul on Steph was reversed to an offensive foul, and Steph was t-ed up after the foul.
Hmmm. random bolding.
The ghost of Pete Rose did it, Chuck…
The NBA became hard for me to watch this season. I just couldn’t get into it. I miss when teams used to run plays. A point-guard would hold up a hand-signal, and a bunch of guys would run around and set screens and make cuts. Now it’s a guy in each corner, and a screen and roll up top, and lots of boredom
Great passes are as satisfying as anything in the sport. It’s a beautiful unselfish thing. Clark is a great passer. It contributes greatly to her popularity.
The three-point shot could be eliminated, and I’d be just fine with that.
I do still watch the Giants! That will never change. And I get to hear Krukow say scoutin’ report instead of scouting report, even though he grew up in LA, but whatever.
The Jeopardy answer is “Never.” The question is “When will Kruk and Kuip ever criticize Williams’ thirdbase coaching?”
Same deal I pointed to last night regarding Verlander, where Kruk said he had a “solid” outing. WTF?
I do have a morbid fascination with Adames’ ABs. He looks pretty lost up there. But can he turn it around? It does make for interest.
I’m sure he’s taking extra battin’ practice, as Krukow would say.
Agreed. idk what his fascination with down and away is–RCF is worst part of the yard to aim for.
Hey it’s now the KKK clan of Krukow,Kuiper&Kontos who fail to criticize Verlander in his 0-5 record in 12 starts! Kontos yabbering on that his stuff still plays and is close to turning it around! Uhhh OK I guess we’re watching greatness reappear that I don’t know about..
it’s not recapturing greatness. It’s showing some regular serviceability. Who do you think would be better than JV going 5 or 6 innings and giving up 3 or 4 runs?
Birds last 3 starts he’s given up 9 earned in 14.2 innings. As SP ERA is 4.03. Pen it was 2.35.
Every 20 years or so the Giants seem to get a surefire, washed up, future HOF SP…
Spahn, Carlton, RJ, and now JV – probably forgot a couple
wasn’t Orel in there too? I thought or hoped Verlander would be more effective. I suppose there’s still time. Doubt it now though.
just checked. Orel despite his borderline war isn’t in the hof. Glad yo be wrong about that. Actually raised my mood.
No hall of famer, but the Sam Fucking McDowell trade pissed me off no end.
Rubin says Melvin says that Devers may play 1B on the upcoming road trip. Gawd knows Wilmers aging knees need rest.
deGrom has no hitter/perfecto through 6 for Tex @ Balt.
lost the perfecto: 2BB in the 7th. Just gave up single to 1st batter in 8th.
Yaz leads it off with a shot.
Yaz leadoff bomb!
Is it me or are Kruk and Kuip goin crackers? Last night Williams waived Devers home and Devers, on a creaky groin, got thrown out from Sjose to SF— right? And Williams caught hell for the waive home. Right? So, in their pre-game tonight, K&K were talking about how Williams should not have taken crap for last night sending home “Ramos”. Huh? Ramos?
the older they get, the better they were.
they were worse last year. St least Kuiper was with the ‘home run’ pop up calls.
looks like the usual low scoring loss
webbie grinding hard.
Since JP Martinez seems to have done an excellent job as pitching coach, does he have a brother (or cousin, or uncle, whoever) who could coach the *hitters*?
With you all the way Paul, cause I’ve said all along Pat Burrell is not a hitting coach, you know Devers and many Giants tune him out.Haven’t heard many Giants praise what a job he’s doing? Geez another stellar 3 hits tonight..
Fleming is daft.
Bottom of order comes through . Another rbi for Koss.
I’m watching the game and saw a crazy stat. Our best clutch hitter???
RISP this year 8/22 HR and 10 rbi’s….Koss!
fuck
I record the games on MLB package and most. The only AB’s I slow down and watch are Devers, Ramos, and Schmidt. I love how hard Schmidt hits the ball. At least one rope in every AB lately, even if foul. Lee, Adames and Baily are terrible. Unwatchable.
opps..watch most of it…
the ubiquitous slow roller off of Rogers.
oooooops. Rogers almost got out of that.
“Geez another stellar 3 hits tonight”
. . . 9pm and still ONLY 3 hits. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . .
every time I start to think these guys are gonna roll, they shit the bed.
And of course Marlins can tack on 2 more runs!
Excellent bat to ball skills added in by Krukow.. Yeah so where is the Giants excellent ball to bat skills?? Geez still stuck on 3 hits to the freaking Marlins wtf 😳
Every close game we lose it’s because they get a hit with RISP and we don’t. lets hope for Schmidt to tie it up!
Here we go! Offense in high gear! Two hit batters! lqtm
well well well here we go
???
Warning track Willy strikes again…
fucking Adames thought he had it again.
just missed. Adames did get 1 home
I can’t…
Williams is a MORON!!! the fucking LFer is 30 feet in.
Out at home, what a shock.
Williams???? Koss ripped it. Go Giants!
9:24the Giants get their 4th hit and Sarge just fucked up again sending another funnier for the win but Nooo he’s out like Snarkk from San Francisco to San Jose!! Let’s see how Melvin covers up this latest boner by Williams..
Williams didn’t look at where the LFer was.
this reminds me of the 49ers and their special teams coach.
Losing a series at home to a bad team, this is where promising seasons go to die. So much for the soft part of the schedule.
Augh. What a clusterfuck game. Only possible bright side is Williams getting fired hopefully.
See you later Doval and Verlander. Buster needs to find a closer.
Every time I think Doval is gonna roll he shits the bed.
fucking Hjelle No is up next.
Windmill Williams no matter what on Draft Day..
Yep another loss heading are way and now the Sweep can only be avoided by Birdsong & Flap per James 0-3 but due right?
Nice mop up job by Doval as he gets Hammered Away in the usual clusterfuck of ghosting..
if Williams had held Lee instead of taking a stupid chance to send him home Lee would’ve been on third with one out. AI tells me that’s good odds.
Williams is the bizarro 3B coach. He does the opposite of the right thing.
remember how the bizarros played baseball? They held the bat by the barrel and threw it down in disgust when they hit a ball over the fence for an out.
Per cbs Doval threw 15 sliders out of 21 pitches to 6 batters, 4 of whom reached base.
Got ahead 0-2 to first & third batters, but gave up walk and RBI single. Maddening.
our only hope is the marlins go out and get fucked up tonight and are hung over for the day game.
Stinkeroo by Camilo.
What a ClusterF of a game. Matt Williams is on a streak — of horrible judgment. But, the real story is the linguini hitting continues despite Devers. He’s probably wondering WTF did I fall into ? Now, Schmitt may be hurt just as he started feelin’ it …
Damn, another woulda, shoulda, coulda game is getting old.
Schmitt likely out as he wasn’t on deck for the 10th.
I don’t know Chuck the Giants could be sober and still not hit!
And Ballgame and Schmitt probably has a broken hand but they still played him in the field, wtf? They are morons, you see him shaking his hand the whole inning?
3-5 on this homestand. At least Lnotos said sending Lee was stupid.
Just catching up to what happened. Went to drain the vein and come back in 2-3 minutes, Marlins up 8-4. WTF???
Camilo cratered…
Radio guys talking like Casey is headed for the morgue…
medicos need to call in Thing to take over for Schmitt …
Williams,Burrell both need to be cremated immediately they both stink I can smell the stench..
I just saw that Diego Seguí died. One of those names that stuck with me, like Rogelio Moret.
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