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GreekGiant
Ok, so the narrative is the Giants are going to win three in a row against a talented Cubs team to advance to the N.L.C.S. I get it. I learned my lesson in 2012. No matter how much I want to give up, count the Giants out, and think they are toast… I will not. I simply refuse to believe this season is going to end with a series of dis-spiriting losses to the highly-favored Chicago Cubs, the potential team of destiny.
The Giants lost 5-2 in pretty much a garden variety ho-hum way. Jeff Samardzija was both terrible and un-lucky, surrendering 4 runs in two innings on a combination of hard hit baseballs and broken bat bloopers, one, a two-run single by starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks. You know it’s not going to be your night when the opposing team’s pitchers drive in more runs in two at-bats than the Giants have in two games. That’s because in addition to Hendricks’ duck snort, some guy named Wood, a relief pitcher for the Cubs appropriately-named, murdered a fastball from George Kontos in the fourth inning for a solo home run to add to our misery right after the Giants scored two to make a game of it.
I don’t know what happened to Smarge. His fastball was hitting 97 but suddenly he forgot he had 4 other pitches in his arsenal. As brilliant as the Giants game plan was last night with Cueto on the mound, one has to question what Buster Posey and Samardzija were thinking by constantly trying to challenge the Cubs with hard stuff. Dexter Fowler, remember him? Once again he set the tone of the game with an extraordinarily feisty at-bat leading off the bottom of the first. After fouling off 169 pitches he doubled off the wall and the nightmare began.
Apart from one at-bat by Joe Panik (a beautiful opposite field double) and Gregor Blanco (a pinch-hit double that drove in Joey Baseball) the Giants looked pretty much horrible at the plate the entire game. They looked like the Australian cricket team attempting to play baseball on a global goodwill stopover in Scottsdale during Spring Training. It was ugly. Buster Posey waved helplessly at bad pitches and struck out feebly in the 8th. Brandon Crawford swung at two balls in a row after working a 2-2 count, only to ground out in a key at-bat in the 5th. Hunter Pence should be nicknamed Hunger Pence, you know the guy in the Hunger Games who gets to thwack teeny boppers with glee because he never made his High School baseball team since he couldn’t hit a lick, even when his dad, the President of Panem made sure the opposing pitchers served up meatballs for him to hit.
I could go on and on about the lack of execution among the team’s hitters but I will resist that urge. It might simply be the year of the Cubs. We will have to wait and see. For now the Cubs pitchers are making the Giants look like a AA team at the plate and I, for one, am not happy about it. Bruce Bochy’s comments after game 1 were interesting. He said the Giants were playing very well and he liked what he saw from the team. I actually agree with him to some extent. The team’s defense and hustle have been impressive. The fight and effort are there. It’s just that the results are not. It may simply be that the Cubs are better than the Giants right now. Those are difficult words for me to type at 1:23 A.M. but it doesn’t make the possibility any less true. The Cubs have swagger, confidence, and an energy about them that the Giants simply do not.
The Giants get a day off tomorrow to rest their weary minds and bodies. Game 3 will be at home with Madison Bumgarner on the mound ready to put the team on his immortal shoulders once again. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Tough one all around. Stings more because of last night.
Breckeroni will be focusing on game 3
Arrieta has a 4.60 ERA in his 5 September starts. That’s a positive.
Bumgarner has his famous 23 inning scoreless streak going, but eventually he is bound to give up runs (remember he lost Game #3 in 2014).
I hope Bumgarner has a quality start Monday but we won’t win if we can’t score runs. There it is.
If we win there, we can go to the next game …. who knows?
But so far our hitters look pathetic.
You would think Bumgarner is bound to give up runs. I would think he’s bound to give up runs. I mean, how could he not? The only problem with that is that Bumgarner apparently doesn’t think he’s bound to give up runs, or be subject to many of the expectations people have of normal athletes.
I never get a Breckeroni .I’m like the guy who misses the foul ball and it goes straight to a kid behind him.
With that, Good Night, all.
Truth be told, Breckeroni didn’t get that many first posts either.
GG great post as usual. I agree with everything. I really hope for a great game 3 and then I go to game 4 in person! I am so looking forward to it and they better make this happen!
Samardzija has the #3 curve in the majors w/CB/C=2.86) and some idiot (Posey? Bochy?) decided he wasn’t going to use it the first time through the order. As a matter of principle. Without that moronic decision the Giants win 2-1. Samardzija had the lowest xFIP in the majors in the last month using the curve. Yesterday it was decided that it would be better if he didn’t use it. How stupid can you get? Who made that decision?
Samardzija first, then Rags, then Bochy and Posey. It was Jeff’s plan to use it only the 2nd time through the order. He admitted that at length in his post game. As a catcher, you guide, but you can’t dictate to a strong headed pitcher. Most pitchers have the knowledge that Posey knows more than they do…I’m not convinced Jeff has figured that out.
That works for guys that can overpower. It didn’t work for Jeff. He’s not a shut down power pitcher. Yet, as bad as we all know it looked, 3 of the runs came on bloop singles.
Fowler set the tone with his first AB, very similar to Marge’s last start in CHI. Oh well, the Cubs won’t see him again. Let’s go home and get the magic back. I, for one, can’t wait to see our crowd Monday nite.
Alan Porter helped by deciding not to call that edge pitch , though he did randomly several times later in the game.
Jeff is too wound up and doesn’t let go of calls like that very well.
I went in last night with low expectations for him. I thought he would be way too amped and trying to throw the ball through a brick wall…just like I suspected, Montefusco showed up. “Stubborn” doesn’t play well against well disciplined hitting teams
Agreed. That was my fear after losing Game One. I think we might’ve seen a completely different pitcher if we had won the first one.
I didn’t see the postgame, can you give the link to it?
That was also the plan he used in Chicago in September and it was a disaster then too. Brilliant, just brilliant.
He was bad. 3 of the runs came on bloops but they were set up by three hard hits and a walk with no out.
I saw it live on CSN Bay Area, and I don’t think they posted it because it was so long….
I remember going into Game 3 in Cincinnati listening to the Gs get 1 hit by Homer Bailey and thinking they couldn’t possibly get it done. I was wrong
They did.
This time we go home, instead of on the road; and, we get the best post season pitcher in the history of MLB to win game three and turn the tide.
I still have faith. This group is still 10-0 in must win elimination games and the Cubs haven’t won sh*t in 108 years.
Bum holds serve and Moore has a good one and then watch that damn billy goat show up for Game 5…..
I think it’s possible Bochy might start Blach instead of Moore in game 4. There is a certain logic to it. Moore can be great but if he isn’t getting the curve over it’s a serious problem. Blach looked great yesterday and his game against the Dodgers was even better than Moore’s. And the fact that he pitched against 4 batters yesterday makes him less rusty than Moore. The Cubs don’t know him at all and if they announce him at the last second it’ll give the element of surprise. Blach already outpitched Kershaw in a huge game on the next to last game of the regular season, that’ll probably help the nerves problem (in any case Moore could also have a nerves problem). After counting on Samardzija’s curve for yesterday’s game and seeing he was afraid (or forgot) to even throw it, maybe Blach’s steady diet of controllable 90 mph low two-seamers with a few miscellaneous other pitches thrown it would be safer than Moore’s hit-or-miss combination of curves, changes, and 94 mph fastballs and cutters he may forget to throw. And if Blach can do okay for a few innings the psychological effect on the Cubs will be a lot greater, on the one hand they’re full of confidence that they’re the best team in baseball but on the other hand they’re young and very much aware of the history of their team, and not being able to hit a rookie in his 3rd major league start could fuel the choke narrative which is in the back of their minds, and this could be huge in game 5.
I think it’s more likely that he pinch hits Blach for Belt.
You are assuming there will be a game 4.
C’mon GG, Bumgarner in an elimination game?
We’ll see you Tuesday night!
For arguments’ sake, yes. Well actually if Bochy is going to do it he should tell Blach as soon as possible so he can be psychologically prepared.
The agony of sports fans is universal. A Michigan fan compiled a bunch of comments and tweets made by Rutgers fans before and during Michigan’s 78-0 annihilation of their team. You think people here get upset? By the way, the game was not as close as the score might indicate.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/schadenfreude-rutgers
Maybe Wrigley got into the Giants hitters’ heads. Posey thought he hit it out in Game 1. Belt thought he hit it out in Game 2. You could see the frustration.
With the Giants anemic offense, Bumgarner is quite beatable
10 times this year Bumgarner gave of 4 or more runs.
13 times he has allowed 3 or more runs.
8 of his last 12 starts to end the season he allowed 3 or more runs
20 times in last 32 games the Giants have scored 3 runs or less since September including all 3 in the playoffs.
4 of the past 5 games the Giants have scored 3 runs or less.
With the Giants anemic offense, Bumgarner is quite beatable for sure.
Convince yourself yet?
I just did. Bum is good ad at times he is great, but he needs the rest of the team to win and that team is not around much of the time.
Good luck with that. Bum will beat the Cubs 0-0 on Monday. Book it.
This isn’t the Reds like 2012, but that was in some ways more disheartening. 2 losses at home, needing to go on the road for 2. Homer Bailey vs. Ryan Vogelsong, what looked like on paper a much worse matchup for the Giants than Bum vs. Arrieta.
I don’t know how many times Bum can come through for them, but win one and then see what happens.
Actually on the road for 3 .
You are right about that. 2012 was worse. The Reds, a superb powerhouse of a team that owned us in the regular season, came into our park and basically peed all over our carpets, pillaged our wives and ransacked our temple. Then we had to go to Cincy and win 3 in a row after getting humiliated there in seasons past. No, this situation is very surmountable for the Giants. It start with one win.
I attended Game 2 and came home the next day, the longest three hours on the train, wondering why and how the Giants’ promising postseason had gone so wrong. .I didn’t have much hope after nearly being no-hit by slop thrower Arroyo. Then it became two hits in 18 innings after futilely flailing away at Bailey and Chapman in Game 3. The worm turned as soon as Baker inexplicably removed Chapman, and the historic comeback was on! 🙂
So the Giants played horribly for more than two months and turned it around at the last possible minute to make the playoffs. Now they’ve looked pretty bad for two games (not you, Johnny, you were awesome)–is it too late for one more turnaround? I guess we’ll see.
Game 1 was frustrating but understandable. A tight pitchers duel decided by one mistake–you could see that 1-0/decided by a homer coming many innings before it happened; the only question was by whom/for whom–and some disappointing mistakes on the bases by the Giants and a bad ninth-inning call by the umpire. But that’s how playoff games between aces facing off often go.
Game 2 was Bad Second-Half Giants. Samardzija only throwing fastballs. Lifeless ABs up and down the lineup in a bullpen game. Bochy with the insane pitching changes–it really felt like he’d thrown the white flag by the fifth inning and was just trying to get relievers work.
So now–we’ll see. Previous postseasons and even last weekend tell us not to give up hope.
A few bright spots: It was fun to see Blach and Law make their postseason debuts, and they did well. Bochy actually let Kelby play 3B. And a big pinch-hit double for Blanco, in what is possibly close to his final moment with the Giants. I love that guy.
I am really impressed with Ty Blach. And like you’ve said, he’s got great poise, and seems mostly unflappable out there. He has enough on his fastball to get the job done and his control has been impeccable. Presently, MLB hitters have never seen him and they react accordingly in the box; they have a real hard time picking him up which has resulted in what is probably an unusual number of swing through’s, but also a fair number of batters getting locked up and taking called third strikes. I imagine that in time, hitters will have an easier time picking up his arm slot and begin to have better success, but for right now, he looks every bit like a significant contributor in 2017.
If the Giants have comfort with Blach, Blackburn, Suarez and whatever they can squeeze out of Matt Cain for the #5 slot and the long man in the pen, then by chance, if the right impact player becomes available, Tyler Beede could become expendable.
It would be hard to give up Beede knowing that Cueto can opt out after next season. Having already traded two top pitching prospects (three if you count Michael Santos, I guess), the cupboard is barer than it was six months ago.
But yeah, if they want to get a good outfielder or 3B, Beede, Arroyo, and maybe Chris Shaw are about the only chips.
Speaking of chips, it’s food for thought should the free agent market become unpalatable. Hey Tampa, I know you are thinking of rebuilding, what say you Evan Longoria? Hey Colorado, you finally ready to part with Cargo? Or Baltimore, Adam Jones sure looks good in orange and black and his production is down with you guys so…
No one fake trades like my cousin!
I’m in on Cargo…Jones would be an upgrade over Span, but he’s tremendously undisciplined at the plate (think Nunez). Salty Balty would ask for way too much. Longoria is the Kathleen Turner of 3rd baseman…used to be sexy hot. Used to be.
Any fantasy i had concerning her was crushed after her appearance on Californication.
You got body heat too, cuz.
Yo Lorenzo Cain, waddup?
Is Cain FA? Isn’t he unhappy in KC over something I forget?? We need to backfill our Cains.
Cargo = no bueno in RF.
I’m curious – why did you include 3B? No faith in Nuñez?
I’ve read here that Posey called too many fastballs but the pitchers, especially veterans, determine what their strategy will be or what they are confident to throw. I suppose there could have been a plan from the scouts and pitching coaches to go with all hard stuff but seems to me it’s on the pitcher.
Posey is so off this year. Nothing carries over, never any momentum. A couple of hard shots in game one and now I read (missed the game) that he looked horrible last night. What is going on with that guy?
The Oracle will mock me, but here goes:
Bochy admitted after the last game of the season that what I noticed is true- Posey is playing through wrist and lower back injuries. We can see that in the day to day inconsistency issues and the day to day differing scale of pain I think he’s trying to fight through.
That makes the fact that Trevor Brown is our only back up a gigantic roster construction problem. To me, at least
You deserve to be mocked, too many excuses, Posey hit a double, would of been HR if not for the wind, off of Chapman one night, the next he is injured .
Hey Peter…you better mock Bochy too!
Tell me how you KNOW he isn’t playing through injury? Please?
He has hit the ball with good power the last 4 weeks, lots of doubles off the wall and a couple of HRs, you give him excuses for the bad at bats, when he is simply swinging at bad pitches, and baseball is not easy most hitters fail over 70% of the time .
So, Bochy lied! Got it.
He said he was dealing with hand issues, not now, get it, things get better over time, and the last 4 weeks he has driven the ball way more then before that .
“This user is blocked” = removing the piles of hot mess from your path. Liberating.
I do enjoy reading your retorts to the trolls!
So your an F’n WIMP, get out of the kitchen , and a troll is someone that does not give excuses to players for bad at bats, every time a player gets a hit they are great, if they ground out, he is hurt, NICE !
Peter why do you get do worked up over other people’s opinions? Buster is a very good hitter who isn’t getting it done, maybe some nagging injuries are at least part of the reason. Maybe his frustration from that causes him to press and chase bad pitches or maybe he’s become too much of a guess hitter, who knows, we see here to speculate.
I hate excuses, Posey has been hurt this year, but has looked better lately, and yes he is a guess hitter, and that is not good, he wants to be the guy that gets the big hit so swings at pitcher pitches, but none of that is because he is injured. I only get upset over people that brag about blocking people, what is the point of a blog with out good old fashion debate, other opinions make it better, just to have a blog with people that agree with you is boring .
Well that does it, you are blocked!
Just kidding, I only blocked the foul mouth troll and the guy who said he wanted to kill me.
Peter’s not the one blocking others for their opinions, so I guess he doesn’t get as worked up as they do.
Funny you mention….I blocked 2Troll and MLBSF, and saw a ton of “this user is blocked”, and these responses by folks to them where I saw only their statements…very entertaining.
Ayup. Makes for much easier reading.
I think that makes sense, he’ll look good for a game or two, then back in the tank. A lot of the time in the second half you could tell that Buster was just trying to slice singles the other way, like he knew he was too tired to drive the ball. About a month or so ago I noticed a couple of games where it looked like he was really letting loose and trying for some power. Didn’t work, great swings but just foul balls or pop flies but it was encouraging. Then back to a more conservative singles type approach, I bet you are right, it caused too much discomfort.
Do not buy his excuses, look at Posey’s at bats, he has driven the ball at times lately, but some times he swings at bad pitches, actually is over aggressive, wanting to do to much and swinging a balls out of the zone .
you are spot on and I mentioned it all season. it is one of many roster construction problems that keep this team from being elite.
Of course rhey have the talent to compete with anyone on good days, as they had a great first half and this past week. But the overall makeup is not there, they don’t have the overall talent, the depth of other teams, no way no how.
And all the more reason he needs moved from behind the dish. By far and away the best most productive hitter on the team has been incapacitated due to playing his position.
3 ground outs and a strike out for Posey, when he hits the ball in the air ,is when he is at his best .
I’m not one to blame the catcher for what the pitchers do. But there was a lot of talk about the Bumgarner game plan in New York–high fastballs the first time through, offspeed stuff the second time through. And you know Bum and Buster either came up with it together or Bum simply threw what Buster called. So you have to wonder if they had a similar plan with Samardzija that worked less well (understatement) with a different lineup than Bum faced.
How about the reality that Bum is just way more talented than Shark? The in itself is the most realistic explanation about the outcome of the game than a conversation questioning Posey’s game plan.
Shark had a decent season but take a hard look at the numbers, they tell you he has been this guy all along, a 500 pitcher that goes out an throws a lot of innings. At best a #4 in a good rotation, perhaps a #2 or #3 in a bad rotation. He will never ever be better than he is now, does not matter the team, the coach, the catcher, the barometric pressure, etc.
Well, of course. Bum is a lefty. Thus, better.
But he hits righty, he sees the light.
God, this tablet, changes “righty” to “rightyou” How is that possible, it’s not a freaking word? It’s 8 o’clock and I need a drink already.
If you’ll check the stats you’ll see that Samardzija was great in September, lowest xFIP in the majors, because both his curve and his slider were working. But he would only through the curve starting the second time through the order. Probably the Cubs noticed this pattern and used this to their advantage yesterday.
That’s is such a Bull shit excuse to defend Shark. Where any of the offenses he faces prior as good as the Cubs?
Plus he is a typical
Actually, now that you ask, of the 5 games he pitched in the last month, two were against the Rockies, who scored MORE runs this year than the Cubs, and one was against the Cardinals, who were a little behind the Cubs in runs scored (Cubs were 3rd, Cardinals were 4th).
Next question?
yeah keep telling yourself that.
Bumgarner generally does throw some curves early, in the WC he didn’t but that wasn’t normal. I would assume it was because the Mets are not a good fastball hitting team (23rd in the majors). On the other hand, the Cubs are #4 in hitting fastballs but only #18 in hitting curves, it makes no sense to pitch them that way. But that has generally been Samardzija’s strategy, don’t throw it the first time through the order, I checked all the September games and that’s what he’s done. It resulted in disaster in the game in Chicago in September and it resulted in disaster yesterday.
Slept outside in the tent again which is where I’m at now. So Holiday Inn Express. But yeah, the plan is usually to establish the fastball and mix in the breaker bit by bit, but if the pitcher isn’t confident with the two becomes stubborn with the one. At the onset, with adrenaline pumping, there is a tendency to throw through the break on curve – too much arm speed and little feel.
Samardzija didn’t throw a single curve until Fowler’s second AB, then–after 32 pitches, behind 3-0, no outs in the 2nd, men on 1st and 2nd–he threw two in a row right away. In all he threw the curve 6 times, 3 fouls, 2 called strikes, 1 ball, nothing hit in fair territory, it was great once he started throwing it, but by that time he’d already made a mess of things. Someone had obviously decided that come hell or high water, there would be no curves the first time through the order.
How many times do we hear that Buster calls the game? He called those pitches. and it’s totally reasonable to wonder why did he call virtually nothing but hard stuff.
It certainly was an obvious question that none of the so-called journalists covering the team bothered to ask, as far as I can tell
Curve wasn’t there. Smarge left it in the hotel room.
See PerSpeier…he is spot on.
By the way, the bullpen gave up one run over 6innings. So, the “insanity” worked.
Sure–the bullpen mostly held serve. But it was too reminiscent of bullpen manuevers that failed during the season. Casilla got lucky that Baez decided to be a hotdog or that would have been a fail, pulling a cruising Blach for our resident head case.
You have PPCTSD: post pitching change…
I don’t blame you. They have a master plan for the entire series, and ol’ stubborn Jefe kinda messed that one up. Bochy got some work in for a bunch of guys.
Jeff happens.
I know I’m being a hater saying this, but I just can’t wait for Casilla to be gone. So many bad memories in 2015-16 associated with him, and I know some of that is on how Bochy chose to use him, but it’s on Casilla, too.
Anyway, as with Jonathan Sanchez a few years ago, thanks for the memories, but I’m ready to turn that page.
Yup. Poor Santi is basket of doubts and anxiety on the mound, and I am not seeing it change for the better. He has “stuff”, but so what? Your Sanchez Corrolary is spot on…stuff means nothing if you can’t control and manage it.
Ha–the Giants’ history is full of “stuff” pitchers who were always “just about” to put it all together…Hammaker, Garrelts, Trevor Wlison, Ortiz, Estes…I still remember some KNBR host (maybe it was Ralph B.) who every year would say that THIS was the season Trevor Wilson would win 20. Still waiting on that one.
And as for the closers–holy cow, we’ve had some colorful characters. Randy Moffett, Greg Minton, Jeff Brantley, Beck, Benitez, B. Wilson…do we ever get a turn at a Mariano Rivera or Trevor Hoffman type that we can rely on for years, or will it always be the Torture Parade???
Well, I’ll counter that two of those “stuff” starters led the NL in ERA (Hammaker 1983, Garrelts 1989). They all had at least one or two decent seasons for us. But yeah, we’ve had our share of unfulfilled potential.
Ha ha.
No.
What bearing did it have on last night’s game? None.
I already said that…I think Bochy’s bullpen moves worked very well.
You said more than that. Read your comment.
I get your gig now. I say something connected to politics, you overreact, then I’m on the Pal List.
I know they would not have von sidereal it but did they really need Casilla on the roster? I would rather have had Parker, one guy who might actually run in to one. Not likely, but more likely than the need for Casilla.
2 losses that had shit to do with with Casilla and you still can’rt resist trashing the guy.
Is he trashing Casilla or just saying he’d rather have Parker, and the possibility of a long ball, on the roster?
Word. Come on, Michael. It’s not a bad thought. I felt the same way: we have a cadre of bullpen arms. Dont need Casilla, for this round. Another bat–yeah, that would be a good add.
Read the comments on Casilla that preceded this. and you’ll see that the whole thread is bullshit.
He wasn’t trashing him. You can’t attribute the “whole thread” to one commenter. I don’t care what kind of royalty you descend from.
It’s called follow the leader. So yes, he was trashing him.
For someone looking for a fight, yes. And “looking at the whole thread” that’s you. Those looking for trouble can usually easily find it.
Stop being such a bully. PerSpeier is a sometimes commenter and a good one. He wasn’t trashing Bumgarner. He was supposing about the roster.
I wasn’t referring to Bumgarner.
It was Casilla. I made a mistake. (See how easy that is). Point stands. He wasn’t trashing Casilla.
I read recent comments to see what’s up. it was obvious where it was going – the usual shit whenever Casilla makes an appearance, Never mind that his outing had zero effect on the outcome of the game.As to the idea that he should not be on the roster- that’s the new take. There was very little mention of Casilla when the roster was announced .it centered on Blanco or Parker and who should be the 12th pitcher. If someone said ” No no, Not Casilla,” I missed it. in fact the take here was that he was very good stranding inherited baserunners so he was wanted on the roster.
His outing had an effect in the sense that it happened because he was on the roster and because he was on the roster the Giants had fewer pinchhitters.
He was wanted on the roster because of his the proficiency at stranding inherited runners. This isn’t just my take ,it was the consensus on this board.
If you mean his LOB%, the reason it’s been high is behind he has a tendency to be not could for a batter or two before he settles down–the runners he strands are those he put on himself. That doesn’t help for coming into the game with runners other people have put on base.
You are talking about when he’s been the closer. His record here at stranding *inherited * base runners is what has him on the postseason roster.
Not really trashing him, I do think they have more pitchers than they need for a short series with multiple off days and they have no pop off the bench (or in the lineup for that matter). What, are you his mother?
No, he already has a mother here,
They certainly could use another hitter and one less pitcher
Law got BIG TIME lucky. Maybe you forgot.
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Well, look at you. Apparently we’re all up and bouncing off the walls this morning.
A few months ago a bought this Android tablet from Samsung to use for the Internet because my wife’s old iPad could not handle you folks (OK, it couldn’t handle Discus). It’s half the price and has no problem keeping up with the blog. Yes, while I’m not on the blog as much as most I bought this thing just for you guys and gals. You should feel honored.
Anyway, the spell check feature is going to be the death of me. Ipad’s was really good but this thing pulls out words and phrases literally from left field. “Bum” becomes “but”, “A’s” becomes “A’small” (a small sample size, what?!) And “the” becomes “ghetto” a thousand times, I get it, trying to go fast I hit the “g” instead of the “h” but really, a typo on a three letter word and your solution for the typo is a six letter word with no context? And they pay these kids just out of school a $150K to code this?
OK, I feel better. Anyone have any suggestions for this, aside from not making typos or not posting on the blog? Can I turn off the stupid spell check? Or just turn over the tablet, use it as a coaster, and get a new iPad?
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin’
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
Just post it as it is.
aoshsrkgtfcrt.
There will be a setting to turn off spell check somewhere in settings… google it and you should find it.
To this day, whenever a pitcher loads the bases with nobody out, my family refers to it as “pulling a Shawn Estes”, although Hammaker did it too.
Let’s face it, left handed pitchers are flakes (speaking as a left hander). Bumgarner is the most centered lefty we have ever had. Although Bumgarner did have a legendary bad start against Minnesota in 2011:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN201106210.shtml
Remember, Kids?
Okay, if we go back far enough we have Cy Young Mike McCormick who was actually fantastic in 1967, and Ray Sadecki was actually pretty good (gets a bad rap because Cepeda), and so was Dravecky, and before that Pierce and O’Dell but in general, our lefties, if they come up through out system are very inconsistent.
The odds are that the Giants will win Monday: Bumgarner > Arrieta, Home > Away, Elimination game, haven’t won a game yet, etc. However, we know what it’s like to be eliminated in the first round, 97, 00, 03, and the hitting on this team seems worse than any of those.
Marge lost his offspeed because hecwas throwing through the break. Marge normally sits at 94-95 with his fastball but he was consistently amped up to 97 -98. This was his first real adrenaline game. He never pitched in the playoffs, and it showed. It was a learning experience. Not making excuses, just facts.
Place faith in Bum. He will deliver tomorrow and we will avoid the broom. If you want to worry. Focus on Tuesday….
If we make Wednesday the billygoat will handle the rest.