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Greek Giant
Tonight’s Game: Indians (48-43) Vs Giants (35-59) at Willie Mays Field, 7:10 PM
Mike Clevinger (5-3, 3.00) Vs. Ty Blach (6-5, 4.60)
Time will tell if the Giants sell-out streak will stay in the record books or not. Tonight they can begin a new one. With 31,000 season tickets sold before the year, that means the Giants need only to attract 10,000 fans per game. Does it matter? Should the fans stay away in protest to send the owners a message?
Five Questions
- What was the best trade in San Francisco Giants history?
- What was the worst trade in San Francisco Giants history?
- Should the Giants blow up the pitching staff and start over, keeping only Bum and maybe Strick?
- Is the Hwang Dynasty over?
- What will Kyle Crick’s role be in 2018?
Breckeroni doesn’t think this makes any kind of percussive sound, but here it is…
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/07/yankees-nearing-deal-to-acquire-frazier-robertson-kahnle.html
Wonder if Efraineroni is doing the “snoopy dance”.
of course this source is the “kiss of death”
https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/887474710635851776
If true…I think this is more about keeping Frazier away from the Red Sox, rather than solving their first base situation.
True. But it also helps them plug 1B hole. Not that Frazier is some force to be reckoned with these days, even though I might have done some offseason advocating on his behalf.
DBacks managed to keep JMart from Rox. That is the race. Top NL WC, best to host and not visit Coors. Unless Rox fall out because of those adverse work conditions you artfully described.
It’s your 2017 Loney. (It’s similar to a Razzie) (I think Loney signed in Korea today) (Belt’s still in the States)
The ice has been broken in the AL East, so here we go. Breathe, Cuz. You need to pace yourself
Fuck it, I just picked up kilo of coca. Pura vida!
DAMMIT! I need Belt to go to Yanks.
So you can stalk him? Maybe in 2019 or so.
Don’t think it will happen unless the Yankees move to Texas.
1. Williams for Kent, Vizcaino, Tavares
2. Foster for Duffy
3. No.
4. Was there one? He wasn’t ever going to be some magic answer. Low risk experiment. Nothing to see here…
5. Take over for Kontos and Strickland for Blog Reliever Animosity Target
If JD Martinez can go to the DBacks and help them get better to eliminate the Dodgers, then it’s all good.
That’s true. Hadn’t thought of the bracket. #1 seed Dodgers host the winner of WC game. DBacks would spend Greinke in the WC. Nats will pummel the Cubs.
getting ahead of self in all the trading excitement!
Four terrible trades:
* Cepeda for Sadecki
* Foster for Duffy
* Perry for McDowell
* Maddox for Montanez – not as bad as the others but broke up a great young outfield (Matthews, Bonds)
Hard to choose among the first 3. Probably Cepeda or Perry, take your pick.
You forgot Willie Mays for Charlie Williams
Mays cReer was basically over at that point
Who is care?
Mays wanted to go the Mets because they were going to take better care of him financially.
I got the impression Larry Baer was pretty shook up about the sellout streak fizzling last night and also he intends to do something about that. Things like more giveaways, more fireworks shows, more fan promotions, more sizzle to the PR department, more memory lane stuff, and putting a better product on the field. In that order would be my guess.
Either that or they’ll simply increase concession costs.
Excellent analysis.
I think the streak has been manipulated by the team in the past and they just came to the realization that it was becoming too obvious to continue to fake it.
Whoa…Carlos Correa out until late September? We need Foothill to come driving in like that Zantac fireman with a solution….
Ride it out. They have like a 50 game lead over Seattle. Alex Bregman et al will cover. That scary bunch may not miss a beat somehow. And I suppose they tack on an arm – Shark?
shark and Kelby, Boom get it done!
The Two Ugly White Dudes trade?
Tradewinds are persistent. Our fog proves it.
KT ugly? Oh boy now you really done it…
You got the cute genes
You said I looked like him, you weirdo! But you’re right. I may have been blessed.
It was a post for the NY dude that tends to see life thru a race prism…you’re MyShredder
D’awwww thanks, Matty.
New music! Not done mixing it yet, but it’s getting close…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4rkex43kydsua26/01%20Butterfly%20Take%202_2.mp3?dl=0
DUDE! You were flying like Jeff Beck in the middle. Wow. Also reminds me of a guy I’ve been listening to named Quist. Tasty.
Thanks, my man. Any and all Beck comparisons are certainly welcome. Feets said this one sounded like a festive street celebration in the tropics. I cannot disagree. I think it also sounds like Queen goes Cuban. Wait till you hear the rest of the album.
Span and Nuñez at 1&2 just has such a low energy feel to it.
Noonie had an on base streak of 33 games ( or something) broken last night.
I believe in Nunez
Same night as the sellout streak ended. Coincidence? I think not.
Perhaps Yankees should be more focused on SP rather than hodgepodge, buy one get two free kinda deal.
Well, I’m currently stranded with a dead car battery for the second time today and I also had to deal with a group of teenage boys harassing me on BART including trying to throw their drink on me (luckily they threw as horrible as Matty Moe to 1st base) so if the Giants could possibly not lose today, that’d be juuuuust peachy. Ugh.
Sounds like you could use a hug and a tasty,stiff beverage.
What Ryan said!
Have one for me in the meantime!
Sorry, Peaches. Glad you didn’t take any shit, though. Gotta get an automatic recharge-able jump starter and keep it in the car. Hope you get home safely. :^)
Well, I never take shit from anybody 🙂 my car is 15 years old, I think it might be reaching the end of the line 🙁 I hope I get home eventually too. A girl has got to take her pants off after this kind of a day!
You probably just need a new battery.
Yes I’m aware of that dude.
((In your best Dwight K. Schrute voice.))
Obviously you’re keeping up with your TV series. More and more I’m using TV series as a way of turning off the Giants broadcasts. It’s bad versus badder I know.
Oh boy I watched a honey of an episode today. I’m on Season 7. Waited too long to watch this genius series. HILARIOUS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsr67gAeQNQ
Wow, Disqus really upchucks a LOT. At first when your YouTube link was in red and when I clicked on it … BOOM … my access to all threads ended and I had to reload TWG. This technology has a seriously large collection of error conditions. Thanks for the load!
Whoa geez….sorry about that. My intentions were pure.
That”s all that counts with me, brother! However, did you intend your video to be about how to get higher testosterone? It wasn’t from your referenced episode, that’s for sure.
Okay, a one-minute clip from the Office unfortunately followed the five-minute clip about testosterone. The juxtaposition of the infomercial with the episode was funny.
No it’s about how Dwight gets back at Jim with an epic snowball fight beatdown and snowman intimidation. So hilarious, especially Dwight looking down at Jim from the roof.
Why yes, yes she does. ;^) You just may have to call in sick tomorrow and begin work on washing off this travesty of a day, and start work on….
The Peachy Strikes Back.
Wow, Peach. Hope the Giants help the day…we’re here for distraction, too. So sorry
The recent “crowd” robbery on BART cured me of ever riding again! I’ll either do Amtrak or Greyhound coming to Giants games from Merced in the future. But I’ll need to see commitment to improvement first!
I’m personally more afraid of getting sexually harassed or assaulted than getting robbed. It’s probably why I have a habit of walking fast everywhere I go when I’m alone.
Me too, always a brisk, purposeful walk! Now that I have to rely on a walker to get around, I’m even more mindful of being a vulnerable target for as little time as possible!
Yikes. Bad, real bad.
http://www.kcra.com/article/wildfire-in-mariposa-county-threatens-300-structures-forces-more-evacuations/10322221
Answer to number 2 is Orlando Cepeda for Ray Sadecki.
George Foster for Frank Duffy and Vern Geishert might have been worse. The Giants got most of Cepeda’s best seasons.
No– he was a stud after leaving the Giants
I know Cepeda was the 1967 NL MVP for the Cards, so that was one great year!
Cepeda won one MVP. He finished 15th and 36th in the voting in two other seasons. He hit 153 HRs and drove in 598 after leaving the Giants.
Foster won an MVP and finished and finished second, third, sixth and 12th in other seasons. He hit 344 HRs after leaving the Giants and drove in 1,226 runs. Now that I look at it, it’s really not even close.
1. Williams for Tavarez, Vizcaino, Kent (my 3rd favorite Giant ever)
2. Duffy for Moore
3. Trade Cueto and Shark if the deals are sweet, give Moore one more shot, keep Bum (of freaking course), Blach (question mark).
4. Yes. It is now the Hwang Dang Doodle.
5. Pre-set up man (6th, 7th innings-ish)
You can take the boy out of Florida, but you can’t take the Florida out of the boy: Clevenger
Grabbing his hammy….
because it is 2017, of course.
The Phillies won.
I’m seeing a little bit of gut on Blach, to go along with his much discussed butt.
Core strength material.
Not six pack but keg
At least we still have a badass infield
Clevinger throws better with his glove that Moore does with his bare hand
FOG walk…Fear Of Gorkys
Upping his OBP
Crawford looked Guyer back to 3rd on that grounder. I wonder who has or had the meanest look-back…
Really informative scoreboard info here in Sacramento. Check what Ryder Jones did in his last AB.
Be better, Raley Field. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b997178c92bec293ac55315760a3d8277973c8f6923e5229d44964df3a1d2a5.jpg
How do they do that? Not only is it hard to read, it must be dangerous to people near it.
can they just play a loop of that pence strikeout?
A tumbleweed just blew through TWG.
Hahahahaha.
That hat may be the worst promotion in the history of baseball.
What’s the word for when someone does a real good job for their employer in a demanding industry, then the employer rewards the employee with some very handsome dollar value, then the employee can’t keep up with the demands of the extremely demanding industry, but the employer keeps the flailing employee because he once was a very good employee but not any more, as evidenced by his recent poor service, and the employer investment was based on past services and has a hard time parting with the large dollar amount rewarded to the employee, and watches his corporation flounder in such a demanding industry? There’s a word for it but it eludes me.
It’s a phrase…”The Giants’ Way.”
That’s it!
Want to see great pitching?!? Should have just caught Kershaw be his usual self vs the White Sox tonight!
Another notch towards that MVP+CY combo.
Doesn’t hurt to have the best closer in the game pitching behind him either.
The season and blog have devolved into boredom and weird Dodgers trolling. It’s that kinda year.
That’s why we need the D Backs to get better.
Krukow couldn’t even get out a full sentence of positivity before Span tapped it back to the pitcher.
Why wait?
The dugout looked pretty excited.
Those were some real WTF you doing high fives.
Nice that the Giants tied the score.
Blach is in good pitcher’s duel.
Fun Fact! : Hunter Pence and Gorkys Hernandez have matching OPS!
That’s Twilight Zone material! 🙁
💩💩💩
Hey! The new outfield nickname: the Three Doritos!
So those are the chocolate Doritos. Why do they have faces?
It’s poop, Bapah. With faces…Feces with faces. Welcome to evolution. We are doomed
So you’re saying they’re NOT Doritos?
Please don’t eat them
I have to admit, the “feces with faces” is pretty funny.
Really nice outing for Ty Blach. Hopefully he’s able to build on this start.
Schulman says Zimmer tried to take Panik out with a dirty slide? Time to bring Strickland in. 😡💩
Oh, look who’s all in on my Bow Hunter NOW!
Don’t mess with Joe, thug.
By the way…what is it with San Francisco kids and dirty slides into….San Francisco Giants?!?!?!
Oh geesh not you too! 🙄
Didn’t see this one…just getting folks riled up.
well don’t lol.
Makes people who never played the game try to impose some ignorant rules on how it’s played.
As if generations of players who were taught to play the game a certain way are just going to get their memories erased.
Crawww
Weird. This time last year, Albert Suarez and Mac Williamson were on the Giants, and Ty Blach and Gorkys Hernandez were River Cats.
Albert looked good in his three innings tonight–0 R, 3 H, 0 BB, 5 K. They let him hit, too. If Shark gets traded, maybe he’s next up.
They should bring him up now actually, and have him be the long man off the bullpen. I was wondering where he’s been all year.
Injured until now. May not be long. He looked really good.
Their SS ain’t so bad either
Couple of Gold Glove shortstops this series
Yup, they’re both naturals
Why no bunt there Boch?
Because he thinks Crawford is too good a hitter to bunt.
Casilla was booed off the field by A’s fans after blowing the save.
Did he blow it with a pitch, or did he fall off the mound?
How many BS does he have in 2017?
15/19 in save opportunities. His other numbers all look better than Melancon’s, too, at a fraction of the price!
Pence got all of that one.
Atta babe Connor.
Mr. Happy setting up the happy ending.
Bunt
Perfection for Span? Hardly….. Krukow
Great win. Now let’s re-build on that.
Not too late to catch the Padres.
Good games for Blach and Dyson.
Good to see that from Dyson after the last one.
And Dyson went two innings.
Too bad Connor Gillespie doesn’t get the W for this game.
Hopefully he earned himself a start tomorrow.
Always been a CG fan.
Earned himself a trade. No future here with multiple third base candidates in the pipeline
At least GG referenced the original photo’s filename.
I heard about this SP that the Giants signed today on Ray Woodsen’s show tonight. Jack Conlon, 18 yrs. old, out of Sugar Land, Texas. He was the Orioles’ 4th round pick last month but they didn’t sign him due to concerns about his pitching motion and long-term health, and thus he became a free agent.
Thanks to ClutchUp for posting this article about him in the previous thread:
http://straight108.com/2017/07/17/conlon/
So nice to wake up to strong coffee and a Giants win.
MMmmmmm, coffee. What’s for breakfast?
So far, a blueberry muffin. And a whole lot of Giants highlights.
Some observations from last night’s River Cats game:
1. Mentioned Albert Suarez below–it was his first AAA start of the year, and he went three innings and about 50 pitches. He looked really good–3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K. FB hit 95, and he looked sharp overall.
2. Shaw had three hits and two doubles. The first double was to the wall in left-center; the second was a scorcher down the LF line. We didn’t see his last couple ABs (we left after 7 and it went 12), but he looked pretty solid up there.
3. Parker looked good, too, with a couple hits, flew around the bases to score from first on Shaw’s double. Still wearing his SF batting helmet.
4. Mac did NOT look good. Yeeeeeesh, but he’s lost at the plate. We sit close to the River Cats dugout, and he was slamming down his helmet after yet another strikeout.
5. Poor Ryder Jones–first game back after being HBP on the wrist, and he got…wait for it…HBP on his left hand. He ran the bases but then came out of the game in the bottom of the inning.
6. We left before Law, Rogers, or Snelten pitched, but it looked like they all did well. Matt Gage was awful–came in with a 2-0 lead after Suarez came out, immediately gave it up, and looked distracted (slow to back up bases) and unhappy–slumpy body language. Not sure what his deal is. He’s only been up from AA a couple weeks and looks miserable.
Nice night at the park, fun time hanging out with the Crawniks. Oh, and like the Giants, the River Cats walked it off in extras, with a game-winning RBI from Trevor Brown off the bench.
OurGuy™ Duggar did his two-doubles-four-RBI thing for SJ too. Saw a tweet from RItzo that he also made a great running catch … RItzo called that the best sign of all for Duggar. So at least Something is going right lately for the Giants in the Bigger Picture.
Hope you stay fire free out there. This Detwiler fire forcing evacuations in and around town of Mariposa is a real monster – resources to fight it seem very limited. California can be a real hell-hole in the summer.
Got your 100 feet of Defensible Space?
I have some dead small oaks [SOD] to thin out but I am waiting for my Tool Crazy grandson to visit for his chainsaw lesson. Three-year-olds need to learn these things. [Okay, he will be watching with his ear protection on and then help me drag limbs to the wheel barrel.]
Hope Duggar can stay on the field!
In other minor league news, Steve Duggar was back on the field. Played right field and collected 2 doubles and 4 RBIs in four trips to the plate. Reynolds was 1 for 4 in LF, catcher Garcia was 2 for 4. Jebavy was in center and got punched out twice. Not enough contact for that young athlete it seems. Jealous of these trades; after the two bigger prospect names, the White Sox get a C+ outfield prospect (Tito Polo) in the deal with speed and plate performance. Can’t Giants get one by unloading Strickland and/or Nunez?
CJ Hinojosa hit his 4th HR, 1 for 4 – ..306 avg.
I can see Hinojosa on the big club by 2019.
Did you have Gomez on either your 2018 or 2019 list?
I did not, but I should reconsider. Him and Moronta. So many to choose from.
If they trade Cueto and Smardjz then they better get a high level pitching prospect. Coonrod, J-Greg and Gage have regressed; Beede, Stratton and Suarez can use some competition for a SP spot in 2018.
Otherwise for Nunez and Span they need all OF prospects… the INF is fully loaded: Gomez, Hinojosa, Kelby, Howard, Hwang, Jones, Arroyo.
Shaw, Duggar, Slater can use the competition in the OF for 2018.
Trade Mac to the Cards for Leake and see if history can repeat itself to get a SFG Prospect going after the FO lost faith in them.
This is great. Thanks Lefty.
To steal a slogan from the Warriors, it was “A Great Time out” last night at the RiverCats game. Thank you from us to you and Mr. Lefty.
Short on stature, tall on the scoop, let Ken Rosenthal bring you up to speed. Yes, via facebook these days…
https://www.facebook.com/kenrosenthalsports/posts/1453472444718482
I’m 6’0″, but here’s what I tell ya: this is a special kind of buyer’s market. Not a lot of buyers, pretty darn good supply. Contending teams are barely sacrificing prospect capital for impact talents. Giants chose the wrong year to be out of it.
Well, the Giants don’t have much to trade, so whatever, I guess.
Brisbee had a piece yesterday comparing the bad 2013 Giants with the horrible 2017 Giants. One thing I’d almost forgotten was that the Giants did actually have serious trade bait at that deadline–Hunter Pence, only 30 at the time, Tim Lincecum (having a decent 2013 and had just pitched his first no-hitter), Javi Lopez, and Sergio Romo, all pending free agents. They traded none of them and re-signed them all instead.
Now, since they won the 2014 World Series, with Pence an All-Star that year and obviously Romo and Lopez being important pieces, history usually relates that as a good thing (that they didn’t trade anyone). But what if there was an alternate reality in which they actually did make some trades, strengthened the farm system, and saved some money for other moves later? They ended up paying a lot of money to those four guys and still are in the case of Pence.
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