by GreekGiant
The full moon over Mays field to start the game was the sign of good things to come. The Giants were spectacular on a night when they were looking for their first win of the homestand against an opponent battling for a postseason berth. This might be the most impressive win of the second half for the simple mastery of every phase of the game: Crawford making Crawfordesque plays deep in the hole, Pence homering with two outs in the first to give the Giants an early lead they would never relinquish, Posey going 4-5, and Cueto going nine strong. Thank God for Johnny Beisbol!
Cueto threw his NL-leading fifth complete game. Giants picked up full game on Dodgers and Cardinals and a half-game on Mets.
— Alex Pavlovic (@AlexPavlovic) September 16, 2016
Maybe the best move of the game was pregame: When Bochy ordered the players to show up late at 5pm and skip batting practice.
I remember when I was a little league pitcher and I got sick. It turns out I came back stronger than ever. The physical and emotional break was just what I needed…
This victory was especially gratifying for all the contributions from the Giants Extra Refugees. It’s nice to throw a party and have all your friends and their friends show up when you were worried you were only going to get a few stragglers… Maybe we can build this into a Championship community away from the commercial pooh pooh of clickbait and silly corporate requirements.
The Giants look like champions: confident, solid in all phases of the game, and ready for a poised run. We have sung this song before after wins in Miami, Yankee Stadium and other places this second half but this one feels special.
Now I can go to sleep happy after a week of staying up past 2 AM on the East Coast with the sick feeling of bad losses… I needed this. We all did! Let’s enjoy it!
Breckeroni will never find this place.
Already did. Check yesterday
Rye whiskey to celebrate the win and christen the first posts and comments on TWG.
Thanks Greek. Full moon indeed. Nice night at the ballpark.
Extraordinary job Greek!
Nice win, especially with all the other competitors losing. Now I can sleep peacefully. Thanks again, GreekGiant
from deep in last post from channel – a terrific post from our own matt duffy on hitting – it is a great read and thanks cc for the share
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs…
I rarely posted, but was a frequent visitor to the Giants Extra blog and loved reading the comments and discussion. It really felt like a nice community. Glad everyone found a way to stay together.
Glad to have you join us!
ive been lurking for years. thanks greek for doing this. the merc just sucked.
Beautiful job on the site, Greek!
first game blog score
TWG = 696 old GE = 16
Ouch!
is pj here too;)?
Just get in to the dance and anything can happen. Giants have very solid starting pitching. Line up is shaky but that’s Bochy’s fault. Same with bullpen.
I too have been lurking at GE for years. With the change in venue – thank you GG! – I figured it was time to get a Disqus account and join the fun. Maybe all of us lurkers coming in from the shadows will add some positive mojo to our team.
Awesome! We (as in the Giants and especially us fans) need all the help we can get!
Love the avatar. So appropriate for a lurker.
Nice Tip o’ the Hat to GW we just lost too. Welcome.
New TWG = HR
Tonight was a good night! It actually went by way too fast. Posey was on freaking fire. Lots of high fives around. And collective groaning over Spagan.
Béisbol been berry berry good to me – Johnny
Just when I think I’m out….they pull me back in with a complete game gem.
Yes, … give it the full “Willie Mays Field” name … I love it.
And here is the first MyGuy™. So much important baseball going on for the next ten days that 22’sSweetSwing and I will wait until the off day to mix in some MiLB results on Giants prospects.
They’re no good anyways 😏
Well you are right on how some Big Names performed this year when you really look at the stats but we will see.
I guess MyGuyDuffy™ is shut down for the year so his stats are in. YourGuyBryant™ sure turned his Road stats around; very dramatic change that makes me wonder “Why?”
Well for starters he is a bonafide star. One of the best young players in the game.
“Bonafide star”? He is one of the top hitters today I like my guys with a few seasons under their belt before is would use such a term. But you were right to bet that he would return just as strong.
Are you a Cubs fan in anyway now?
Not at all Haak – I’m foremost a baseball fan and a Giants fan. I watch the entire league not just one team. I can still be a good Giants fan and like players on other teams and appreciate their talent.
Amen.
Nice win by the G’s. Maybe all they needed was to play against a playoff type opponent to get them going.
And still amazed by the awesome quality of this blog! Got twitter posts, recent posts, full write-up and everything!
Greek is a great fan. Knows the game, insightful commentary, keeps a balanced perspective. In short, the perfect moderator & lead blogger for Giants discussion.
Since the G’s don’t have much star power in the farm why not?: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-legend-of-shohei-otani-grows-after-throwing-fastest-pitch-ever-in-japan-001630360.html
There’s also a more comprehensive scouting report linked in there.
But when was the last time they got an impact international signee? Sandoval? At some point they’ll need to pony up to sign guys like Moncada to keep pace with the top teams who are using both the draft and international market. Or just do a better job of scouting to get a Urias. Daniel Carbonell, Angel Villalona, Rafael Rodriguez, Gustavo Cabrera (unfortunate accident) don’t look like they’re going to make the cut.
As I recall, they have been in the mix for guys like Tomas, Rusney Castillo, and Jose Abreu. But be careful what you wish for. Castillo’s been a huge, expensive bust for the Red Sox. Tomas can run into one, but he can’t do much else, and he looks like he’s headed in Pablo Sandoval’s direction. The Dodgers’ Cubans, as a group, have been a bust.
Lucius Fox was their big score last year, but of course, they traded him for Moore.
Yep, there’s certainly risk there. IIRC they were 2nd in the Tomas sweepstakes, and while he’s had some struggles and may not be worth the money spent, his 29 HRs would be a welcome addition to the Giants’ lineup. I just don’t want them to miss out on potential talent, especially since they lack “blue chip” prospects.
Yasmany Tomas is definitely not a welcome addition, to any lineup. Those low OBP one skill power types are the most overvalued “commodities” in baseball. Slow, can’t play defense, barely above average bat. Guys like Tomas are the 0 WAR player that somehow some think would be a contributor.
His OPS is over .800, his OPS+ is over 100. I’d say his bat is more than barely above average. I value power more than defense, and judging by MLB contracts, most GM’s do too
108 wRC+ this year, 99 on his career. Barely above average seems an appropriate. 5x as many Ks as walks, can’t hide his glove anywhere. Just because GMs make mistakes doesn’t mean his type is valuable.
Whether or not the GM makes a mistake is irrelevant. I was saying that GMs will pay more for pop than defense. And in regards to Tomas, it was more as a blanket statement that his HRs would fit in with the lineup, not necessarily Tomas himself. We’re in agreement that he’s not a great player overall.
Thank you, was not actually sure we were in agreement on his overall ability, appreciate you saying so.
Oh man, this guy is like possibly the best international prospect ever! Throws gas, can hit…
Not just backing up the Brinx truck, but pulling off a heist at the Bellagio to break into the vault. Only George Clooney and Matt Damon can help the Giants get Otani. But he’d be perfect in SF.
Well it’s not my money 🙂
I imagine the Yankees will go balls out on Otani – with LA and BOS jacking up the price tag. Seems the perfect prize to fit in their rotation with their farm system peaking. Maybe Giants enter a low bid when Otani’s time comes.
I’d love to see the Giants make a splash if they feel the player is worth it, even if the spending can get crazy. If Texas (Darvish) and CHW (Abreu) can get it on it why can’t the Giants?
Rotation will be full, mate: Bum-Cueto-Moore-Shark-(Cain,Blach ,Blackburn, Beede)
But maybe window opens if Cueto opts out after next year and ’18 is when Otani enters market.
Ocean’s Eleven was pretty good!
One of those flicks I could watch over and over. Julia not so bad, eh?
same here
Bronx Tale for me.
“And now they face a pitcher they’ve never seen before, so look for them to be shut out.”
That was not written by a Giants fan. It was written by a Cardinals fan (about Moore). Too funny!
I went to the St. Louis paper’s website to see if they were badmouthing Cueto (Baggs made a big deal about it in his postgame write up). They were not. The beat writer kept mentioning what a house of horrors AT & T is for the Cardinals–watching the Giants celebrate winning the pennant in 2012 and 2014. (And he forgot 2002. Matheny was the catcher that night.). The fans call the Cardinals “the Deadbirds.” Ouch!
I always enjoy going to the opposing teams’ blogs, especially after a loss, to hear all their b*tching and complaining, and it makes me feel better about the Giants sometimes 🙂
It’s always funny to see how universal the complaints are. For example (with the possible exception of the Cubs), every single fan base thinks their GM and/or manager is an idiot. Dodger fans right now are happy with Roberts but still don’t trust the front office. Cardinal fans want Matheny out. The Dbacks fans hate everybody except maybe Goldschmidt.
And I also enjoy when they suck up to the Giants. For example, during the Rays’ series their blog was lamenting drafting Tim Beckham over Buster Posey 🙂
In my opinion as negative as this blog can get sometimes, we’re nowhere near as negative as other fanbases. I feel like Giants fans have always rooted for their teams with a sense of a healthy sense of fun and enthusiasm (relatively speaking).
Just wait until the Cubs lose in the playoffs!
There’s no negativity in this blog, it’s brand new! All unicorns and butterflies ’round here…
And they’re 1-0!
Surf Maui’s playoffs rooting interests : Giants (of course followed by ABCD– Anyone But Cubs and Dodgers
If it comes down to them that would be the only way I could root for the Cubs.
I might actually root for the Dodgers if it came down to them. Sooooo over the Cubs already.
blasphemy!
Repent and call me in the morning. This may require an exorcism.
You can alwys root against the Cubs in the WS.
Nonononooooooo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRX6LXDpWs
Come on, really?! You hate the Cubs THAT much?!
Why so much hatred for the Cubs? The media attention? They haven’t won anything in so long that I would root for them if it’s not the Giants. I like Bryant and Rizzo, they’re exciting young players with power. Bryant was attending USD while I was getting my Masters so I’ve kind of followed him from there, seems like a good guy. I understand that the Cubs fans will become insufferable if they win but I think it would exciting for baseball. Let’s just hope the Giants still have some magic left in them. I guarantee the last team the Cubs want to see in the playoffs is the Giants.
I dislike the Cubs for a couple of reasons: the large bandwagon that accompanies them, filled with a significant number of actors, musicians and random other celebrities. I’m guessing there are a lot of people wearing Cubs gear that couldn’t explain the infield fly rule.
Number 2 would be the media’s declaration of Maddon as the greatest manager ever. I take the grouchy old man stance of “win a World Series first”….then we’ll talk”. Also not a fan of the various motivational gimmicks. (and the fact that they’ve knocked out several players over the past couple of seasons).
“Exciting for baseball” would become an onslaught of extremely over-done feel-good pablum about the long suffering millennials who think Don Kessinger was a linebacker.
Every team’s fan base becomes insufferable after they win. Red Sox fans were the worst, I root against the Red Sox when they play any team but the Dodgers. Many people accuse Giants fans of being insufferable with a bandwagon full of millenials who don’t know what a sacrifice bunt is. Watching a team win its first championship in ONE HUNDRED EIGHT YEARS would be pretty crazy. To have a team that [likely] no fan is still alive since they last won would be pretty remarkable. Your view is quite cynical and reeks of “get off my lawn!!!” sentimentality. I want the Giants to win, but if they don’t I have no problem being happy for Cubs fans.
great post!
Hi Doctor! You’re right on the money with that comment. Just as GG titled this here new blog site: Together, we’re Giants! Not only that, but here, we’re more like an extended family.
Very well said.
It’s nice to forgo Baggs’ game wraps. Just read Alex and Brisbee and come here. Win-win.
If shaking up the lineup like salt and pepper helps plate runs,
and helps the guy with salt and pepper in his beard,
then so be it. A slump that drastic deserved a shift.
Glad Denard is still part of the fun – and can still be a critical part of the run.
Just maybe he can get his July/August stroke back, he is due.
Sometimes, the blog “whipping boys” rise from the dead:
see Angel, Angel Pagan.
Still think it would interesting to see “BB”-9 bat 2nd. Work those counts and draw those walks ahead of what could be a formidable and legit 3-4 heart of the order.
Pagan
Belt
Posey
Pence
Crawford
Nunez
Panik
Span
Pitcher
(former #2 and leadoff batting 7 & 8? go figure)
That lineup makes more sense than anything we’ve seen in quite some time
I went to bed with the thought of Belt at the two. Given Panik has never really found that number two spot form he has previously. I need better things to fall asleep to.
I went to bed with Eurythmics playing….
no not really – but Panik could have some big RBIs down the stretch, perhaps with Nunez distracting the pitcher.
As for Belt, other than striking out, the most likely incident for him in the batter’s box is drawing a walk.
He’s K’d 135 times and drawn 97 BB’s (4 IBB). He has 76 singles and 56 XBH. Also has scored 69 runs and knocked in 72. Got to love baseball card stats!
It should be Belt and Pence “platooning” in the 2 hole.Said this last year but would anybody listen?????? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo…
You must have read ‘The Book’ or something.
Or something.
I have more confidence in Cueto right now than MadBum. Don’t know if MadBum is fatigued or injured but he seems to have hit his peak in that near no hitter before the ASG.
Cueto has had his ups and downs in the 2nd half like everyone but it seems to be more the case of a really bad inning here and there than any consistent problem.
And now Moore is up. His non-Colorado starts, of late, have been pretty, pretty good.
Cards will feature an exciting young rookie having a breakout year, Luke Weaver. Maybe Tyler Beede can offer similar next year. Sunday the Giants will see the uber prospect Alex Reyes. Exciting series, exciting times.
I have more confidence in Greek Giant right now than Baggs!
This is Fanfriggintastic
Baggs is just getting a head start on his Cubs coffee table book, apparently.
Matt you made a comment a few weeks ago while our beloved Gs were stinking up the place that you were addicted to this blog, well my name is SLIKK and i’m also addicted to our beloved Gs blog.
It’s a circle of folding chairs where we share our stories….
In all honesty i wake up looking forward to firing up the ol desktop and chattin with you all. It would really be a strange feeling not talking ball with all of you on a daily bases in front of a hot cup before heading off to the job.
Likewise Slikk. Although at my job, most of my blogging comes via my smartphone. Must talk baseball on a daily basis if possible. Nothing like a hot cup of coffee with a dash of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey to get your day started.
Bum did have that complete game two-hitter in Washington…a 1-0 loss. 🙁 Cueto’s had a couple stinkers, too. Neither one of them has been as dominant as before the ASB, but they’re the least of our worries.
…and BUM gets so much run support (rolling my eyes).
WOW this is a beautiful site my goodness, hello guys!!
Welcome Slikk! Glad to have you join us!
Thank You sir this is really nice! 5 stars!
Seriously. Well done, GG! I’m already signed in as RD AND I can block people!! What more could ya ask for? The Sincere better up his game or he’s gonna get axed.
About time you found us. Was about to draw you a cybermap…
Worked last night and didn’t see this til this morning. Even Efrain’s here! Such a huge relief.
Yeah really. I almost didn’t sleep.
Thanks RD. Glad to have you join the party!
Again, kudos on the site. Great job.
Yo! GG is the man times 1000. Great to see you here, dude.
Thanks Sincere good to see you as well.
Slikk! ClutchUp and I were texting last night “Hey, we need Slikk to know! I’ll email him, you tweet him”….glad we got you here. Now, drink some friday coffee and go hip-check a Prius out of the fast lane
LOL as usual i had to find my way around to this spectaculer party all by myself.
Baseball’s Columbus. 😉
Good morning all! I just want to thank you for the well wishes for Mrs. Crawnik recovering from surgery. Even though I have yet to meet any of you in person (and I hope to do that in the near future), I’m feeling a great kinship here. They say a stranger is a friend you haven’t met yet. Well, I feel like I have met every one of you.
Now let’s show up at 5 and be ready to take Game 2. It’s time we beat a pitcher we have yet to face.
Wow, so nice to have this cool place for the GE community! Thank you, GG!!
Well, Blake finally made it….
When they were in HS my son and his buddy, Blake Smith, would hang out down in the basement in the “sports room”, work out together and watch the Giants. My guy was a soccer player, and Blake was baseball…they went off to college to play their respective sports.
Blake got drafted by the Dodgers in the 2nd round of 2009, and got a big ass bonus. LA messed with him, moved him from 3B to RF…he finally settled in as a reliever. He bounced around (played with Puig in AA), got claimed this year in rule 5 by SD, they returned him to ChiSox….and…
He was a September call up. He’s pitched 3 times and done fine…got his cup of coffee, and maybe he can stick next season. Congrats, Blake.
Good to remember these players are real people; good kids with big dreams going into an Arena of Pressure and sometimes getting spit out and still landing on their feet.
Blake Smith is your BonusMyGuy™ from now on.
…now a humbling part: This past March, I had just gone through my 2nd and final major surgery. My baby girl came down from Seattle. Her and Beauty made me get up and walk the hall…we turn the corner by the nurses station at shift change…there was Sissy’s old soccer teammate, Blake’s sister, Brittany. “Smitty?!” She asks what the heck happened..we caught up on stories…we talked Rule 5, and Blake’s chances…my ladies went home later
…later that night, she comes in and says “I’ll assign another nurse to your room” . Good. I don’t need my daughters friend who hung out for years at our house to be checking catheters and bandages….BUT, she ran in even later all excited with her I Phone to show Spring Training highlights of Dick Enberg calling Blake’s performance from the bump. So, here I was laying in a lousy hospital bed watching an I Phone highlight as Smitty and I screamed encouragement to her brother.
I love baseball
Great story Matthew. Thanks for writing about it. I hope you are fully recovered from your health travails.
Yes Matthew. Hope you are fully recovered.
Thanks GG! This really is awesome. Our gain is Bagg’s and the Merc’s loss. For every poster there are many more of us who read and enjoy, but rarely post, if at all. But how will I keep up on the hottest MLB WaGs and Top Ten baby names?
There’s at least 10 babies posting here every bad pitch!
Betcha GG can throw one helluva house party!
I say we all roll down to West Palm and find out.
You are all welcome to come down! It would be great to have a Giants party. I think SurfMaui and I are going to start a Florida Giants fan club!
Did you see those pictures of him earlier this season from Marlins Stadium? He looked like the cover of “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems” with the ladies hanging all over him…yup, GG can party
See there i just felt it!
gald to see you made it here, was looking out for you the first day.
Thanks E!! Finally found my way to the party lol!!!
Hi GE refugees….glad to see you all.
I was at the Padres game Tuesday night (yes, THAT one) then I see that GE was shut down….
Finding u all was a an add on pick me up after last nights game.
@Greek Giant, if you are taking donations to keep this space alive, I’m happy to contribute.
Same here i’ll contribute also just contact Clutch he handles all of my funds! Just kidding i’d be happy to contribute.
Thanks for the donations offer. I appreciate it. Right now I am happy to run it as a labor of love!
Glad to have you Cove. Thanks for the donations offer. I appreciate it. Right now I am happy to run it as a labor of love!
Cool.
Well the offer still stands if you ever need it. I’ll follow you on Twitter so you can pm me directly should you change your mind.
Thanks for doing this! After the official SF Giants message board was devoured by trolls, I found GE as a new home when Baggs ran it the last time. I didn’t know where I was going to go after finding out GE was shutting down.
Really appreciate you putting this up. Anything I can do to help, lmk.
Can we curse?
There goes the neighborhood…
Body Count?
only you can Chef
No goats allowed
I’ll curse all I want Matthew!!!
Chivas!
In have a funny story about Chivas, but too long to write. Basically I attended a World Cup event at large NY ballroom, the organizers only wrote Chivas on the dinner name cards and the folks from Chivas (Mexico) and Chivas Scotch got into an argument over the table hahahhahaha
Good choice on the blog name GG. A naming contest might have been fun. Extra Greek would be a good one, Bloggy McBlogface would not. And yes, as someone else offered, would be glad to contribute to the cost of upkeep, especially since you are doing all the work. We buy, you fly.
Why is it “were” should it not be” we are” ?
“We’re” has a better ring to it than “we are”. By the time you get to pronouncing “Together we are” you forgot what you wanted to say….
He was denied the apostrophe as a child.
Do the Greek even have an apostrophe in their language?
It’s a Greek word.
No, but funny enough “apostrophe” is a Greek word meaning ” apostrophos ‘accent of elision,’ from apostrephein ‘turn away,’ from apo ‘from’ + strephein ‘to turn.’”
I know. Colloquially, in English, it also implies a familiarity and less than formal relationship , usually when paired with a form of the verb, to be.
so apostrphes can;t be used in the domain then? I read it as past tense Were Giants….
You read?
that could work too..
Just tell him you’re a higher life form, and be done with it GG.
drleftyskingdom.com
LOL!
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Bochy and Kontos are in serious trouble
My Big Fat Greek Giants Blog gets my vote.
GLUG!
It took me awhile to get here.As I told Speier -, I got lost between Las Vegas and Paris (Texas). trying find a quarter that I dropped at a rest stop in ’85. I’m very thrifty.
That’s all until after the game, My wife has me on a word limit.
Caution: Spousal Word Limit – One Way Street. Enter With Caution. Yield Right Of Way
Pull up a chair, your deal. Want a beer?
Thanks GG!
I put this on the first post, but just in case nobody is looking at that thread anymore…
Thanks, Greek, for building this beautiful blog. And thanks, too, to the GE regulars who reached out to me to tell me where to find you all. You are all on my mind much more than you know, even when I’m not online. Great to know where to find you fine folks.
Go Giants!
Glad you found your way to the promised land Appalled7. By the way, tell us the story behind your handle please.
Nothing very interesting. I first joined disqus to comment on some news articles. I was appalled at the tone of the discussion, not to mention the state of politics in this country.
I’m in!! Thanks Greek Giant!
Isn’t baseball the most amazing, the most baffling, the most most? I finally get the opportunity to go live at ATT for the first time in ’16 this past Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon only to witness 1st hand some of the most dissapointing Giants baseball of the season. Disheartening to put it mildly. Then what do the fellas do? Well of course, they put up one of the best displays of baseballing this 2nd half!!! Missed it by one day. Ahhh baseball… never ceasing to thrill, or dismay.
Pro Tip: I’ve been going to ATT (aka Mays Field @ McCovey Cove) since the day it opened in 2000. But strangely enough had never sat in the Club Level until just this past Wednesday. If you haven’t ever… do so next time! The seats are fine and all, but it’s the Hall of Fame quality displays of SFG memorabilia on display in the corridor. A must see for every orange-bleeding Giants fan. How it took me 16 seasons to finally check out the Club Level I can’t explain. Don’t be me… check out the Club Level!!
Giants! GO!!!
Great post CaptBrewster. I love going to games at our beautiful park. Those San Diego games were baffling, as if the Padres cast some sort of hex/spell on our boys.. Glad they woke up last night. I hope it is the beginning of a serious winning streak..
Indeed, wasn’t that a heck of a game.
Hows Punky doing? I have not seen the Big Bang Theory lately, though I did watch and episode last night in which Hunter went kaboom
Punky’s all grown up, if ya know what I mean. wink wink nudge nudge
It really is somewhat of a shame that so much of the memorabilia is at the Club Level. There are some cool displays there.
I was in Denver a couple weeks ago and caught the Cargo Grand Slam game. Possibly the worst game ever. No exaggeration. Coors is nice though.
For the great Giants memorabilia, for the warm room escape, for tables and chairs to eat like a civilized human being, there is no place for me but the Club Level! 🙂
Thank you so much GG…!!
I’m also in for contributing/donating if the need rises…
Great Site…
Go Giants !!!
Hunterpence’s first-inning HR left the park in about 2 seconds.
Great photos of him and Pagan @ Brisbee:
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2016/9/15/12938492/sf-giants-recap-cardinals-wild-card
The new rage, a backspin line drive.
Hoping Bochy leaves the line-up the same as last night…
Panik will come around…
Leave Span in the 8 hole..
My Pleasure WineBaroness. Glad to have you join in on the fun and many thanks for your generous offer!
Hope he leads Nuñez off. Give Pagan the day off. Mac in LF. That’s all.
Saved me typing the same.
What he said.
Sorry Charlie, but you know Bochy is sticking with his guy Pagan, and he’ll probably pick up another two hits tonight and offer another couple more salutes to the general audience (Angel has been the glue keeping Mac & Park on the bench).
Does anyone know if Jon Miller is OK? I know Flemm was doing a bad NFL game, but hadn’t heard what was up with Jon
Last night peeps reported that he would be out for a couple games – funeral…
Thanks, Paul
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Padres GM suspended for fraudulent player trades. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/09/15/mlb-suspends-padres-gm-aj-preller/90431994/
I was reading that Preller was also suspended when he was an Asst. GM too. Those days of being a GM rockstar (after trades/signings prior to last season) are a distant memory.
There has been a lot of questionable behavior by GMs over th years, but I don’t remember the falsification of medical records off hand being one. Preller seems to be breaking new ground.
Yes, but one has to think that some of those other young rising gurus are pushing the line as well. The revenue has grown explosively in the past 5-6 years, gotta think greed and deceit kicking in elsewhere.
Maybe. Maybe prison would be a cure.
here’s one for my bud paulo, and the other cat lovers out there..great cat pics in the vid…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYiwxM_RVEI
Used to play this in a rockabilly band. Supreme Setzer chords and leads in this.
Wow. I would LOVE to hear you play Stray Cat Strut! One of my faves. You rockin’ it? Boom sauce!
Awesome moggies there stevie. This is the Late Great Spats Evans, Snorkel’s mentor (c. 1987):
GG – Add me to the list of people who would gladly make a donation. In addition feel free to use any photos of mine. I haven’t take any recently, but you are more than welcome to download and use any of them n the blog. Here are links to the galleries –
https://biketoc.smugmug.com/Giants/Giants-vs-Dodgers-4-21-2015/
https://biketoc.smugmug.com/Denver-September-2014/Coors-Field-Giants-September-1/
https://biketoc.smugmug.com/The-Giants-Parade-2014/
Thank you!
Greek mania in the lab – the boss is Greek, the visiting student/agronomist is Greek, the visiting farmer is Greek,
they’re talking in Greek, the baseball blog has a Pericles at the helm, the physics of the spin and the exit velocity uses Greek letters – it’s all Greek as the Giants begin their ascent of Mount Olympus!
Ouzo on ice with mezedes served to those licensed to use an apostrophe.
…and you all know the saying: “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”.
https://cdn.xtremerain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/trojan-horse-in-troy-city.jpg
So let’s not let up our guards with this “GreekGiant” so fast, if you catch my drift.
Last night was great, but what matters more is whether they can reverse the general trend.
Ayup.
How will we know? Sweep? 3 of 4? Rip off 8 straight wins? I’m not sure i would trust “reverse the general trend” until they actually make the playoffs with a strong (.750 clip or so) finish
Three out of four would be a great sign.
Here. Then like two outta three vs. the Dodgers. Slap the Padres down; enough of this sheet. Need three outta four there. Beat the Rockies two of three, and we should be playing the final weekend of the season for the NL West.
my thought exactly. you’re on the money as usual, TF
I think it’s wild card or nothing.
Not about baseball, but what to me is a stunning photograph. I’ve heard many stories about this event, and one of my graduate supervisors was there and could wax eloquent in the Los Alamos VFW Hall over beer about it for hours. The test at Bikini Atoll.
https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*y0xdoIMofQHKgJdcB_mhKg.jpeg
That really is an amazing photo.
I found it both terrifying, a cold bloodely fascinating. It suddenly added context not previously present to my memories. Teller, and the Los Alamos crowd who built it, called it The Super, not the hydrogen bomb.
You’re description also reminds me when Bochy let Casilla face Lamb.
You seem stuck in a rut. Need a tow truck or AA.
Terrifying is a good description. The sheer power forcing that solid wall of water up in the air..
It reminds me of the reaction when Bochy let Casilla face Lamb.
Only to the emotionally labile.
It was a master stroke.
I nearly had a master stroke
Always carry the DeFib with you and Beauty
Other than that, a pretty nice day in paradise.
We sort of know what’s in the dark corners of paradise.
sometimes malaria, sometimes schistosomiasis, sometimes seasnakes…
Great blog GG!! (Although it’s a bit strange not seeing links for the “Hottest NFL Wives!” or “What Marcia Brady Looks Like Now Will Stun You!”)
GG, one more time with the kudos, sir. Also, looked at your website. Great work, filamoo. Go Giants!!
AlwaysGiant™ Susac just got his first hit for the Brewers; a single off Lackey.
Four of us picked him in MyGuy™ … me, giantc, Mooooose, and Noce. Traded MyGuys™ still earn points for you.
Got to wish these guys well as they worked hard to make the Giants and then contribiuted by being traded to help the Giants get a needed piece in the final stretch. [WIll Smith in this case].
just doing a test
Wow, 13 years isn’t that long in the scope of things, but still…
https://twitter.com/extrabaggs/status/776644895591116800
Got something for YOU Ryno
I hope it’s a Jason Schmidt bobble head. He was one of my faves. Every fifth day was cause for excitement.
Strat – O – Matic
In stead of rearranging my Bobble Heads last night – I rearranged the baseball equipment last night. Have to keep doing that. Then the fellas on our last summer championship team did the right thing and took their gals and buddies to the game.
In case you were thinking of getting a massage while waiting for the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uuN5kuq74
Very jealous. The nurses here are all ex nuns from the order of Holy Cross.
too funny pal. i’d like to put my name on the list for one…
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Thanks GG
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