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Letting Paddock just cruise into the 8th inning when he hasn’t been past 5 all season was embarrassing. Nice to see Harrison do his best Birddog impersonation. Maybe that’s just how these guys are going to get used this year.

Hopefully we have better luck in Minnesota than the Warriors did last night. Chris Paddock is a literal 5 and diver. Five starts this year. He’s gone exactly 5 innings in all five. Flores and Yaz crush this guy. Make it so.

I hopped in the car and turned on the radio just in time to hear Huff ground into a double play with the bases loaded. Lol. Things got better from there. Although you can’t get much worse than a Home to First Base double play with the bases loaded although I guess I’m happy he didn’t hit into a triple play.

Either way that was a very VERY night series win against a good team at their yard.

Wow. Who had those 2 wins going the way they did? Score 9 in the 11th? Win without Curry? Outrageous results.

Nice to see our bats finally come alive. I’ve accepted the likely fact that Verlander is going to pitch his ass off this year and win 0 games……

Turn the page on that one.

Dubs are up against it here. They are so old…..and getting older. Only one day off. Meanwhile the young bucks in Minny have been resting and licking their chops. Shut down Edwards and they’ve got a shot. I’d start GP2 and just glue him to Edwards.

I’m totally happy with taking 3 from the Rockies. Even the worst MLB teams win games. And the idea that we are going to somehow pass the Dodgers by the end of the season to win the division is just a dream, man. Win as many as you can and make it in. Wild card teams have have great success in the postseason.

Man, I did NOT see the Warriors winning last night. Not after they were so easily handled by the Rockets in SF in Game 6. Happy they are moving on but not confident at all in the next series. The T-wolves have just been resting up. We are old and only get one day off. If they somehow win Game 1 my mind will be blown.

Turned the Warrior game off in the 4th quarter. They were pissing me off to excessive levels. Man what happened to “all the Bay area does is win games?” At least the Giants got back on the beam.

Derby today, talk to you guys later.

It’s just one game. Colorado will win games this year. But goddamn this is the wrong time to go in the tank with a slump. And our bats are slumping. Hitting .228 as a team? AS A TEAM? Come on, that’s embarrassing. Verlander has gotten 6 or more innings in 3 straight. He’s no “5 and Dive” man. lqtm.

Colorado fucking sucks, we need to bend them over the next 3 games.

Post game, Flemming was complaining about all the tough starting pitchers the Giants have had to face this year. Man, pipe down. This is the major leagues, there are tough pitchers everywhere. Having said that, I’m not sure I’ve seen two hitters look more overwhelmed than Wade and Bailey looked against Suarez. Just completely annihilated.

Dubs better get Game 6 or this will be shaping up to be an all time NBA choke job.

Didn’t see the game but Webby giving up 9 hits? Guess he wasn’t missing a lot of bats. I’m not really getting this Pivetta thing. He’s certainly starting off the year great, doubt he can keep this going though.

Good test in San Diego. Dubs continue their magical run through…..the first round. LOL. It feels like they’ve been in the playoffs for a month already.

Webby tonight.

if you guys missed the Jon Miller call on that little league home run check it out here.

Man, lemme tell you, I’m not taking times like these for granted. The Giants winning all these heart attack games, the Dubs somehow reaching down and finding secret old magic for one last run. The Oaks this Friday. The Derby on Saturday. It’s just so fucking great right now…..

lol, enjoy the Korean call of this…

They did it again. Gritted out a win. Grinded. Whatever you want to call it. Koss with a perfect bunt. Bailey just ending that shit immediately. Wonderful win. I’m not complaining about being 18-10 and in first place in the NL West, but maybe we could start hitting a little more?

Yuck. Ugly game. But it did seem like my boy Walker figured something out so that’s good. I firmly believe he’s our best option at closer. Head Case is awesome…….until someone gets on base.

In the midst of UncaChuck’s wild bday celebration he took the lamp shade off long enough to check in yesterday. He noted that the pic of us was the same day Unca and San Dawg discovered their kids were dating. That still qualifies as the wildest coincidence I’ve ever seen in my life. Two kids who grew up in totally different areas of California, with two dads who had never met, start dating only to find out that their dads, randomly, are two Flap hall of famers. It’s impossible to put into words how surreal that moment was at the time.

Bochy ambling back into town, if that does anything for ya. The Rangers are coming off a brutal loss to the Sacramento team. Eovaldi can be tough at times. I still like our chances in this series.

Big Happy Birthday to a Flap Hall of Famer, UncaChuck!

This is starting to get messy. Hopefully there is something physically or mechanically wrong with Walker because if this is mental we now have 2 head cases in the bullpen at the most critical time of the game. Thank God Melvin didn’t let him blow another game.

Today, back in 2017……

But actually I’m wondering if that was snapped even earlier than 2017. Maybe I just re-posted it then? Thoughts?

What would you rather have happen, lose 11-10 as the Dodgers did or 11-3 as we did? Trivino is going to be an important cog in our bullpen this year, let’s not hold one bad outing against him. Hicks needs to get his shit together.

Great bounce back win. I am not into this Doval stuff, he is only good when he’s good. When things go sideways he goes with the *things*. He’s like deck chairs inside a cruise ship navigating through a hurricane. No thank you. Walker has great stuff and the right temperament for the job.

And I’d keep Bird Dog where he is. With all these 5 and divers we’ve got he is going to be an indispensable super weapon as the season wears on…..

I was talking to my mom with the game on mute, I figured this one was in the bag and it was a good time for a Happy Easter call with one eye still on the game. After O’Hoppe got a hit I was like “mom I gotta call you back…”

And then when he hit Neto on a 1-2 pitch I just shook my head, you could feel the game was over at that point.

Just an awful, terrible loss. No other way to dress that one up.

And yes, I called my mom back……

“If it’s players you want to worry about it’s not Adames , It’s Wade &Bailey for me ..”–AK

Bailey is just not a hitter. His .230ish batting average across his first 2 seasons seems to be who he is. If the defense is good, and it’s been spotty this season for sure, I’m not too worried about him. Wade on the other hand is a big concern. We got lucky with Wilmet but with Wade it just seems like the sun has set on him. Still very weird that the Giants decided to go into the season with such an underwhelming platoon at first base…..

Irritating loss but not all together surprising. They’ve been slingshoting around the country, it’s bullshit that they come all the way back from the east coast and they’re still on the road.

Wasted a goodie by Webby.

Huff and Koss for the loss? That’s quite a duo locking down the 8/9 holes. Who knows? All we do is play hard and good things usually happen when you play hard.

I liked the Verlander signing and I still do. You have to take him for what he is at this stage of his career. And the velocity is still there. As is the experience which is invaluable to this staff. But he’s 42 freaking years old. It was so obvious he was leaking oil in the 6th inning. He was well into 90 pitches headed to 104. Melvin completely screwed that up by leaving him in too long.

And that’s not Monday morning quarterbacking. It was obvious to anyone with eyes that he needed to go get him.

Verlander can be a very effective 5 and dive guy at this point in his career. Use him the right way and he’ll help us this year.

Caught most of that game at the Peppermill. Those tv’s are insane. Literally 25 feet high. Can’t underestimate what the team is doing right now. Going down 3-0 in the first inning ON THE ROAD? Eh, no problem, we’ll just drop a 6 spot on the in the next frame.

There is such a confidence about this team right now. Fun to watch.

We smoked those chumps like….eh, you get the idea. I implore anyone to find the Korean announcers do the Lee homeruns from yesterday. I heard the one from Friday and it was hilarious. Hope this dude can stay healthy, he’s a fun watch, not to mention the best hitter we have on the team right now.

Uh, looks like the old lady from the 70’s took a break from smoking her cigarillo. I’m out of town for several days but I’ll try to get a thread up for you guys every day. Webby today.

The Yankees are very good. Against bad pitching. Which there is a lot of in baseball. So they win a lot of games. And then they get to the post season, face good pitching, and Judge cobbles together a career .205 batting average. That’s why I was confident we would smoke those fools this weekend. And we will continue to smoke them. Smoke them like an old lady smoked a cigarillo in the 70’s……

Doubt they play today, there is a lot of rain in the forecast. Who knows. If they do play I am extremely confident we win, at least confident we take this series. We have better pitching than they do and we are better defensively. They’ve got those bats. Big deal. Good pitches will render those bats weak and meaningless.

Hey, any Flap HOFers gone back to Finnerty’s yet? What’s it like?

I got in my car, flipped on KNBR and it was Kuip (or Miller I forget who) saying “And Trevino walks the #9 hitter walking in a run and now the Reds lead 6-1.” Oddly, I wasn’t really deterred. I had a long drive in front of me, why not keep listening? And I’m glad I did. Slowly they chipped away with Wilmet finally tying the game 6-6 with yet another bomb he snuck around the left field foul pole.

Screw this, I’m finding a place to watch the game. So I pulled off the freeway and got there just in time to catch the 9th and 10th. Watching Yaz stand there in his “night night” pose was a thing of beauty.

Well, at least we’re still pitching great. Bats go cold, it happens. I believe in this pitching staff though so I’m guessing this all sorts itself out soon enough. I will say that getting shutdown by Greene and Lodolo is not anything to be embarrassed about.

I’m over Doval. It’s not just last night although that was infuriating. It’s that this dude is only good when….he’s good. He can’t work with runners on base. He’s got no pick off move and can’t pitch effectively with a slide step. And then there is the obvious head case factor which is evident to anyone who watches him. So…what are we even doing here? Those things aren’t going to change. And there is no inning that doesn’t count so I don’t really see the point of sending him into less leveraged innings.

Who would have thought we’d be in first place after the first nine games? A 2.84 team ERA sure does help. Man, I’d like to have a team full of Victor Robles’. He’s my new favorite player in the American League. What an effort. I hope he’s ok. They need to do something about that webbing down there. I mean goddamn, why does it have to go all the way down anyway?

I didn’t in fact go to the game but got to watch it on tv and I’m just still so excited about how this year has started. Kinda figured Ray would be focused up with that revenge opportunity and what Chapman is doing with the bat and the glove is remarkable. If we can just stay healthy we have a shot at 3rd place in the NL West lqtm

Man, to be young again. My nephew is 22 and living in the city with 2 of his buddies. All single. They have an apartment with a rooftop that overlooks Coit Tower and the Bay Bridge. Unreal stuff.

This season is starting off just as I’d hoped and it’s really been fun to watch the guys come together and play like this. I got an irate text from San Dawg as soon as Bailey’s smashed ball bounced off the bricks. He’s long been a proponent of bringing the fences in.

I’m gonna be in the City today helping my nephew move into his new place and if it takes longer than I think it’s gonna take I might stroll into Oracle like a goddamn boss and catch the game…..

Not going or even watching it, work then my mom is in town so we’re gonna get a drink somewhere. Hope to catch the last inning or two with her at Rossotti’s.

You know, this 5-1 start really is impressive. Cincinnati and Houston are not easy places for us to play considering the type of team we have (pitching/defense/suspect hitting). And what’s Adames hitting? A buck 30? And we are still 5-1.

I couldn’t be any more excited about this season…..

You know it’s a tough division when you start the season 5-1 and yet you’re mired in 3rd place. Dodgers, Pads and us start out the season 20-1. That’s insane.

But look, a better road trip to start the season we could not have had. Now an off day to heroically return to Oracle before we get to feast on Seattle.

LFG

Sorry guys. Forgot the thread for today. Game time….right now.

i was a big skeptic of Hicks last year just because he’d never started before and I knew he’d hit a wall at some point after he blew past his career innings total. He was actually worse than I thought he’d be, he pretty much fell apart once Summer hit. But goddamn it’s hard not to be excited about him after what we saw last night. And there’s legit cause for optimism with last year under his belt AND the 20 pounds of muscle he put on over the off season.

Webby tonight…..

Only caught pieces of the game on the radio but that was a man’s win. Hitting bombs, Chapman’s incredible defense and aptitude for the game. The guys are doing the little things right, something they were doing in spring training, too.

So far the ghost of Farhan is in the past and there’s a new sheriff in town. His name is Buster Posey.

Let’s keep it rollin’ in Houston!

Caught that game on the radio driving home from Wild Horse in Davis. Shot an 85. 39 on the back. Yes I am pretty proud of myself having not played since last Summer.

Tough to win a game when you constantly hit into double plays. Cinncy is a hitters park, it’s concerning that we are not really hitting in it……

I had the text all typed out. “Wilmet is Worthless!!!!!”

As I sat in my car listening to the game on the radio my finger hovered above the send button…..

And then Wilmet did it. He blasted one to left and I had to sheepishly erase the text I was going to send to Loo and San Dawg and write something more positive.

What a way to start a season…….

by the way, Miller seems to have a new bomb call. He goes “Big fly! booooom!!!!!” Not sure if he’s still going with Adios Pelota for the Latin guys but Flores is from Venezuela and he still went “Big fly, boom” for his bomb.

Sadly, I will be missing the first half of the game because of work. And, get this, I got the WRONG cable package from Xfinity so even though I live 25 miles south of the ballpark I can’t get the games on tv. There’s a decent chance I just turn Xfinity into internet since I already have all the streaming services and maybe just get the MLB package? I really don’t watch TV except sports. Maybe you guys can weigh in on what to do here since this is the first time I’ve had to get new internet/tv hook ups in 2 decades…..

Will catch the last half of the game on the radio or maybe a bar.

Ah…give a little stretch…and a bend. Cracking my knuckles…..yes, let’s go. It is time. Why not? There are a lot of Negative Nelly’s out there right now. “Oh no! All we did was add Adames! Look at the Dodgers!!!!” Pipe down, Nelly’s. This team is much better than it was last year. Don’t believe me? Go back and look at the opening day roster in 2024. Nick Ahmed was our starting shortstop. Keaton Winn was in the rotation. Jordan Hicks was primed for a quick burst of success before his reliever-arm caught up with him. Snell was awful for the first half of the season because he came to camp out of shape. Doval was a terrible closer. Soler was a joke of a DH who hated every minute that he was here. We had Jung Hoo Lee for what? A month? Austin Slater got at bats. The list goes on and on……

2025? Hell yeah, sign me up. Start with no more Farhan. That right there has to be worth 5 wins. I love the Verlander addition, he’s throwing 96 so whatever HGH he’s taking keep taking it. Maybe he’s just motor boating those big beautiful titties more frequently, who knows? Robbie Ray is finally healthy. Hicks has got a year of starting under his belt. I fucking love Roupp. And in the bullpen everyone except that submariner throws 96+. And just imagine for a moment if Doval gets his head straight.

First base is a huge problem. I have no faith in that old-man platoon they are planning on carting out there. But that can get fixed with a trade at some point. And I’m fine with the hitting. Adames, obviously. But Ramos could hit 30 bombs this year. And gimmie a season of a healthy JHL. Outside of first base I love all our hitters.

And here’s a little under-appreciated fact: we’ve got almost no left handed batters. That’s been my dream for years and years. Fuck the left handed in our park.

So yeah, I’m excited. My daughter and I have pivoted on our plan to move out of the area and we moved to Redwood Shores. Back to the Shores for me, I lived here 1999–2003. Love being back here. And it’s way more convenient to get to Giants games from here than where we lived in Los Altos Hills. Back to the Shores. Back to the Flap. And back to Giants baseball, baby. Let’s fucking go!!!!!!!!

WillieD I snapped this photo for you. You’re a true Flap hall of famer.

What an utterly pathetic way for the Yankees to close out that season. One thing I took from this World Series is that it doesn’t matter how much thump you have in your line up. You have to have pitching. You have to have hitters who give you good at bats, do the little things, etc. All NY seems to do is wait around for someone to blast off from the batters box. It’s bad baseball.

And with that we have another season of The Flap in the books. This will be the 3rd Winter I have shuttered her doors. I greatly appreciated the first 2 and was ready for the following season. I am not so sure about that this time. But I won’t make any decisions now. I’ve a long Winter ahead to sort all that out.

Talk to you guys later. As usual you can always get me by email or dm me at Twitter and many of you have my cell.

I mean, that was basically a throw away game for the Dodgers. But it was still wonderful to see them lose. Those 2 meat head clowns who fucked with Betts should be banned for life though. What a couple of idiots. Fake tough guys.

At this point it’s painfully obvious that the Dodgers are the better, more versatile team. Embarrassed for Judge. He needs to get into therapy or something.

Hey, if they get swept that would be quite the burn, aye? Loo and MacDog, how would New Yorkers feel about getting swept?

If you’re a New York fan tonight is must-win. And I do think they will. Clarke Schmidt though, jeez. Well, hopefully Judge finally learns how to mash again. He’s been a ghost in yet another post season. He needs to join Stanton and Soto for them to have a chance.

Honestly, if there’s one Dodger that’s impossible to dislike it’s Freddy Freeman. Dude is as genuine as they come. He’s as legit and committed to playing the game as they come as is evidenced by how many hours he is spending every day getting his foot ready to play.

I was traveling in France when Gibson hit his miracle bomb and missed it entirely. I think back then I waited for my buddy to send me newspaper clippings of that game, lol. Cool to see this one live.

I hated the outcome but it was also pretty fucking awesome and incredible too…..

Jeez, finally! I almost forgot they were gonna play this thing. Despite the ridiculous wait, this is really an incredible match up of star players. Ohtani? Judge? Betts? Stanton? Freeman? Soto? Cole? Goddamn, that is some serious FIREPOWER. I’d bet just about anything that this will be the highest rated Fall Classic of the last 20-30 years, and certainly of all time when you factor in the Japanese tv sets that will be tuned if for this.