November 2010
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“27 outs is a lot of baseball left.”
– Matt Cain.
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Derek Holland Walked Another Batter
Color me shocked.
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childrenofthe-moon asked: what would be your take on the Giant's new player Andrés Torres?
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I half expect the music from The Natural to play...
And I’m always a little disappointed that it doesn’t.
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October 2010
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Hold the Bullpen Phone
I’m assuming my eyes deceived me tonight as it appears that Neftali Feliz indeed pitched the ninth inning during a close postseason game. And he saved the game!
If true, and I’m not ready to accept that as fact and not some fancy trick of the light, it’s pretty startling. I mean, apparently this guy doesn’t know how to pitch judging by the fact that he’s faced half...
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Corey Miller, Cubs Bullpen Catcher, Found With 8.4... →
The four-year veteran of Wrigley bullpens was driving with his 26 year old fiance, Maria Myaskovsky, and an infant child when the weed was found in a suitcase containing men’s clothing during the police’s search of the vehicle. Corey Miller was cited for possession as Maria Myaskovsky took responsibility for the marijuana.
While this will most certainly cost Miller his job, perhaps...
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Game Three
6:57 ET:
San Francisco Giants (J. Sanchez 13-9 3.07) at Texas Rangers (C. Lewis 12-13 3.72)
While Colby Lewis will be battling Jonathan Sanchez for the Rangers postseason lives, we all know the real battle is the internal struggle going on inside of Justin Bieber. Does he listen to his head and root for the Giants, or listen to his heart and pull for the Rangers? Or does he continue...
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Ozzie Guillen for Mike Stanton Trade Discussed →
Which would be the steal of the century for the White Sox if they thought it up. Sure, they’d be giving up their fiery manager who likes playing Mark Kotsay at DH and running into as many outs as possible, but they would also be picking up a player who might hit forty home runs in his second season.
Too bad this didn’t actually happen, otherwise we would be looking at a trade that...
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John Dewan's Spooky Stat of the Week →
If you want to remember things like Cesar Izturis’ MLB low OPS of .545, or that Yuniesky Betancourt was 21 runs below average at shortstop, click through.
But remember, only the faint of heart will leave that webpage of the doomed.
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Tim Wakefield Honored With Roberto Clemente Award →
I sat here for a few minutes trying to think of something snarky to say, but I couldn’t. Wakefield donates plenty of both time and money to various charitable organizations and I have never once heard anyone say anything other than he is a good teammate and person.
Plus he throws a knuckleball, so he’s got that going for him.
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“It’s strange to say, but the weirder you are, it seems the more you win.”
– Aubrey Huff on his Giants teammates.
I think Huff has this a little backwards; when the team is winning the players and fans accept thong-wearing, beard-fearing, wackiness. When the team is losing, suddenly those things do not seem very fun.
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Times the Giants walked this season, 21st in all of Major League Baseball and the lowest number among this year’s playoff teams.
And yet they found a way to draw four walks in the eighth inning, two of them driving in runs and spurring the Giants on to a 9-0 lead. Baseball is funny like that.
(Somewhat surprisingly, the Rangers had the second lowest walk total with 511, good for 18th...
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Game Two
7:57 ET
Texas Rangers (C. Wilson 15-8 3.35) at San Francisco Giants (M. Cain 3.14)
Tonight’s matchup would have seemed an impossibility at the beginning of the season. While Matt Cain has continued to post excellent ERA’s despite a high fly ball rate, no one would have imagined that he would be on a team playing this far into October.
As for CJ Wilson, a year ago he was...
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BREAKING NEWS: Pat Burrell Is The Machine →
Thanks to The Fightins, there is now photo evidence that Pat “The Bat” Burrell, who has a thing for nudity, is “The Machine” that drives the Giants. It seems that Burrell likes to throw Christmas parties and come down in the middle of them dressed in his most festive gimp outfit.
Click the link if you’d like to see the evidence. And thank The Fightins for passing...
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“Complete bull. That really pissed me off. Completely inaccurate. All I’m...”
– Jon Daniels on reports that he asked the Mets to wait for him.
Which makes sense. It didn’t really add up that Daniels would want to jump ship from a World Series club that has a new owner flush with cash, to head over to the Mets situation that was begging for direction. With Sandy Alderson...
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San Franciscans Have Another Reason to Root For... →
Via TMZ (something I thought I would never write on a baseball blog), the San Francisco-based marijuana dispensary, ReLeaf Herbal Center, will be giving out free joints for anyone who is in the store when the Giants homer. I’m not sure how many people were there for Juan Uribe’s blast last night, but it may have made baseball fans out of people who never really had given the sport a...
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Ron Washington Loves Horror Movies, Will Keep... →
Which is as bizarre a decision as one can make. The fact of the matter is that Vladimir Guerrero looked more like Vlad the Impaler as he butchered almost any ball that came his way last night. And at this point in his career, Vlad’s bat isn’t strong enough to make up for any defensive deficiency, much less every shortcoming.
Ron Washington has a good reputation as a manager that...
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“I’d like to be a crossword clue one day. I want to be in The New York Times’s...”
– Brian Wilson, Crossword Puzzle Enthusiast.
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Game One of the World Series
7:57 ET:
Texas Rangers (C. Lee 12-9 3.18) at San Francisco Giants (T. Lincecum 16-10 3.43)
2,430 regular season games and 27 postseason games have all lead to tonight’s game. At roughly three hours per game, that’s over 7,300 hours of baseball with all roads converging at Lee and Lincecum.
Predicting individual baseball games is a fool’s errand in the best of...
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GIANTS FANS & BASEBALL FANS IN GENERAL
battingcleanup:
YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BRIAN WILSON “BEARD ME” SHIRT BECAUSE IT’S AWESOME
BEARD ME SHIRT
Unfortunately I already purchased one novelty baseball/facial hair tee-shirt this year. And I think if you buy more than one, technically you’re not allowed to vote any longer.
I’ll have to ask a lawyer about that, though.
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No Matter What Happens In the Series
We all know the real competition is the quote battle that the Wilson’s are going to have.
Will Brian Wilson stare down reporters while delivering tiny pieces of insanity wrapped up in a clever quote, aided, as always, by “The Machine”?
Or will CJ run to Twitter and release a barrage of tweets that no amount of artificially colored beards will be able to stop?
It starts...
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Consecutive World Series called by Joe Buck, setting a record and bypassing Curt Gowdy and the God of All Baseball, Vin Scully.
While Buck is a decent enough broadcaster I suppose, but even Buck knows he’s no Scully. Says Buck about the record:
“It means that FOX has a lot of money. Because without FOX, that question wouldn’t even be asked. Let’s be honest, it’s more due to FOX’s...
frederickalfredporcello asked: Don't forget about the Tigers wrt Werth too.
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“It’s not like they have a fire pit where there’s a lion that jumps out and eats...”
– C.J. Wilson, when asked if weather is a factor when playing in SF (via allikazoo)
But it would be pretty awesome if they did have that. Just sayin’.
(via bluecatsredsox)
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Marlins Leaning Towards Keeping Edwin Rodriguez →
Another lesson in how not to run a professional franchise from the Florida Marlins.
First they fire Fredi Gonzalez to appease Hanley Ramirez, assuming that they’ll be able to scoop up Bobby Valentine.
But when that takes too long, they install Edwin Rodriguez as interim manager, but make it pretty clear that he’s purely a fill-in guy.
Only problem is that they’ve jerked Bobby...