Wow @ Giambi hitting 3 home runs in a game at 40 years old.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Wow @ Giambi hitting 3 home runs in a game at 40 years old.[/quote]
Fucking Kendrick man; the sinker ball pitcher who likes to throw it up in the zone. Gah!!
It really would have been nice to have a win before going into inter-league play. These injuries are killing us. Thank god they got off to a hot start beating up all the sub .500 teams because they are doing exactly jack shit against teams who have a winning record.
A lot of parody so far - 28 teams have between 19 and 26 wins. 8 out of the 30 have 22-23 wins.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
A lot of parody so far - 28 teams have between 19 and 26 wins. 8 out of the 30 have 22-23 wins.[/quote]
^ I notice it immediately as well, but I was planning on letting it go.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
A lot of parody so far - 28 teams have between 19 and 26 wins. 8 out of the 30 have 22-23 wins.[/quote]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_(sports)[/quote]
Would you believe me if I told you that I actually meant the teams are simply making fun of each other a lot, then threw up some parity stats as an unrelated point?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
^ I notice it immediately as well, but I was planning on letting it go.[/quote]
Thanks for the info, my first thought when Bonez posted that was “I wonder if therajraj thought of it too!” Really fascinating stuff there raj.
<-does not like being called out on grammar issues
^ lol
Hey I was the nice one who didn’t point it out!
This reminded me of an interaction I had a few weeks ago where this guy thought the phrase might as well was actually “mind as well.”
I pointed it out and he didn’t believe me. facepalm
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
A lot of parody so far - 28 teams have between 19 and 26 wins. 8 out of the 30 have 22-23 wins.[/quote]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_(sports)[/quote]
Would you believe me if I told you that I actually meant the teams are simply making fun of each other a lot, then threw up some parity stats as an unrelated point?[/quote]
Hey, i figure its better to hear it from a faceless person on the internet then to mistake the mistake to someone in real life who actually may care how much you do or dont know. No insult intended, at all.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
^ I notice it immediately as well, but I was planning on letting it go.[/quote]
Thanks for the info, my first thought when Bonez posted that was “I wonder if therajraj thought of it too!” Really fascinating stuff there raj.
<-does not like being called out on grammar issues[/quote]
WELLLLL technically, its not a grammar issue, but an issue of usage. 
Inter-league play just doesn’t do it for me…
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Inter-league play just doesn’t do it for me…[/quote]
I think it would be much better if they had fewer interleague series. 1-2 series at home and 1-2 on the road.
Get the previous World Series matchups and cross town rival series in and call it a day.
Then for the teams who have never been to the World Series and do not have a rival team, have them play the same teams every year so a rivalry can begin to build.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Inter-league play just doesn’t do it for me…[/quote]
I think it would be much better if they had fewer interleague series. 1-2 series at home and 1-2 on the road.
Get the previous World Series matchups and cross town rival series in and call it a day.
Then for the teams who have never been to the World Series and do not have a rival team, have them play the same teams every year so a rivalry can begin to build.
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Giants and A’s lived up exactly to expectations. Amazing pitching, no hitting.
2-1 final in extra innings ha.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Inter-league play just doesn’t do it for me…[/quote]
I think it would be much better if they had fewer interleague series. 1-2 series at home and 1-2 on the road.
Get the previous World Series matchups and cross town rival series in and call it a day.
Then for the teams who have never been to the World Series and do not have a rival team, have them play the same teams every year so a rivalry can begin to build.
[/quote]
Giants and A’s lived up exactly to expectations. Amazing pitching, no hitting.
2-1 final in extra innings ha.[/quote]
The Giants are at it again!
They’ve played in a Major League-high 37 games decided by 3 runs or less and they’re 13-3 in one run games, 10-0 in those games at home and they’ve won 12 of their last 15 despite not scoring more than 4 runs in any of those games except for 7 that they dropped on NY three weeks ago and the 8 they dropped on the Dodgers in Dodger Stadium.
There is absolutely no substitute for playing in so many tight games. They’re actually better in them so far this year than they were last year. Their offense may be terrible, but who cares? It only needs to be good enough to score one more run than the other team and that’s exactly what they do. They may not LOOK like the best team in the NL, but they’re playing as good as anyone in the league right now.
LINCECUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Inter-league play just doesn’t do it for me…[/quote]
I think it would be much better if they had fewer interleague series. 1-2 series at home and 1-2 on the road.
Get the previous World Series matchups and cross town rival series in and call it a day.
Then for the teams who have never been to the World Series and do not have a rival team, have them play the same teams every year so a rivalry can begin to build.
[/quote]
Giants and A’s lived up exactly to expectations. Amazing pitching, no hitting.
2-1 final in extra innings ha.[/quote]
The Giants are at it again!
They’ve played in a Major League-high 37 games decided by 3 runs or less and they’re 13-3 in one run games, 10-0 in those games at home and they’ve won 12 of their last 15 despite not scoring more than 4 runs in any of those games except for 7 that they dropped on NY three weeks ago and the 8 they dropped on the Dodgers in Dodger Stadium.
There is absolutely no substitute for playing in so many tight games. They’re actually better in them so far this year than they were last year. Their offense may be terrible, but who cares? It only needs to be good enough to score one more run than the other team and that’s exactly what they do. They may not LOOK like the best team in the NL, but they’re playing as good as anyone in the league right now.[/quote]
So true, and proved once again last night.
The Freaky Franchise is the best pitcher in the bigs, bar none.
Can’t wait to see how we look once we have our bats healthy.
Didn’t want to start a new thread, so I’ll throw it here since it’s related:
Suspect in Dodger Stadium beating of Bryan Stow is in custody
By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times
8:40 AM PDT, May 22, 2011
A man suspected of being one of the two assailants in the brutal beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium was taken into custody early this morning, Los Angeles police sources say.
At about 7 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team descended on an East Hollywood apartment building with a warrant in hand. According to apartment building manager Maritza Camacho, police, using loudspeakers and with guns drawn, called out to the occupants of Apartment 25. Inside was one of the men police suspect in the March 31 beating that left Stow with brain damage.
As residents of the three-story building stood watching from balconies, police removed, one by one, the people who were inside the apartment, according to Camacho. Among them was a man with a bald head and tattoos on his neck and arms, she said, a description that appeared to match the vague sketches released by police of one of the two suspects. She added that he did not appear to resist being taken into custody.
Several police sources confirmed that the man taken into custody was one of the two suspects in the beating.
Police officials declined to give details, including the name of the suspect, saying only that the investigation was ongoing.
Bryan Stow, 42, a father of two, was walking through the Dodger Stadium parking lot with two friends after the Dodgers’’ opening-day victory over San Francisco when he was brutally assaulted. Stow, who lives in Santa Cruz and worked as a paramedic in Santa Clara, was wearing Giants apparel, police said, and two young men began taunting him. One of the assailants blindsided Stow with blows to the back and head, police said.
The two assailants repeatedly kicked and punched Stow while he was on the ground. Stow’s friends attempted to help, and were also punched and kicked before the attackers fled in a car driven by a woman wearing an Andre Ethier jersey. Police said it appeared there also was a 10-year-old boy in the car.
As more time passed without an arrest, the reward fund grew to more than $200,000, and the suspects’ sketches were plastered on about 200 billboards around the L.A. area.
Camacho said that the man taken into custody Sunday morning had not been a longtime resident of the East Hollywood apartment building, but she had begun to see him coming and going in the last few months.
Stow remains in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, where he was moved last week from County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Doctors in San Francisco told reporters Stow had opened his eyes but that his long-term recovery was far from certain.
The incident has brought scrutiny and negative media attention to the Dodgers, who are also in the midst of an ownership battle. Owner Frank McCourt is struggling to meet payroll, prompting Major League Baseball to seize all business and day-to-day operations of the team.
Despite a significantly increased police presence, attendance has lagged. At Wednesday’s game against the Giants ? the rival team’s first visit back since the opening series ? paid attendance was 30,421. Although that was the number of tickets sold, the 56,000-seat stadium was clearly more than half empty. The last time the Dodgers sold fewer tickets for a home game against the Giants was June 4, 1997, when they sold 30,357.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
LINCECUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!![/quote]
I finally went to Ike’s Place on Market to check out the sandwiches. Goddamn, that was a good sandwich, but FUCK I got a $55 metered parking ticket because I couldn’t find the place (spot on google maps was wrong). Fuck me.
They had a sandwich called The Lincecum.
Utley to make season debut tonight. SWEET!!!
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Inter-league play just doesn’t do it for me…[/quote]
I think it would be much better if they had fewer interleague series. 1-2 series at home and 1-2 on the road.
Get the previous World Series matchups and cross town rival series in and call it a day.
Then for the teams who have never been to the World Series and do not have a rival team, have them play the same teams every year so a rivalry can begin to build.
[/quote]
Giants and A’s lived up exactly to expectations. Amazing pitching, no hitting.
2-1 final in extra innings ha.[/quote]
The Giants are at it again!
They’ve played in a Major League-high 37 games decided by 3 runs or less and they’re 13-3 in one run games, 10-0 in those games at home and they’ve won 12 of their last 15 despite not scoring more than 4 runs in any of those games except for 7 that they dropped on NY three weeks ago and the 8 they dropped on the Dodgers in Dodger Stadium.
There is absolutely no substitute for playing in so many tight games. They’re actually better in them so far this year than they were last year. Their offense may be terrible, but who cares? It only needs to be good enough to score one more run than the other team and that’s exactly what they do. They may not LOOK like the best team in the NL, but they’re playing as good as anyone in the league right now.[/quote]
Won another close one yesterday in extras. I think we also settled the “Best in the Bay” debate with that sweep.
Please funnel your positive thoughts towards the Kung Fu Panda and his recovery process.