If somebody knows what they're doing, the only guy to lead off a Halloween WS parade is Pence.
http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/31/7135679/giants-parade-world-series-2014-schedule-map
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
i did think it was strange how little they ran vs the giants.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I think there's a Cameron piece about how long the Giant pitchers held the ball.
Roger Angell:
I don’t know what it felt like watching Mathewson pitch, but watching Bumgarner is like feeling an expertly administered epidural nip in between a couple of vertebrae and deliver bliss: it’s a gliding, almost eventless slide through the innings, with accumulating fly-ball outs and low-count K’s marking the passing scenery. It’s twilight sleep; an Ambien catnap; an evening voyage on a Watteau barge. Bumgarner is composed out there, his expression mournful, almost apologetic, even while delivering his wide-wing, slinging stuff. Sorry, guys: this is how it goes. Over soon.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/best
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/Dmo2zNX
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
MLB San Francisco 2015 commitments:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t4r9nky1EouVJsFXQlv3FKQ&output=html
they look to be in great shape with only $127,277,777 committed so far.
― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Saturday, 1 November 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
4 more years of bumgarner, sick
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 November 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
can we now call buster The Captain y/n
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 November 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/p480x480/10636112_892799327411434_8367340437442719500_n.jpg?oh=d026044defa8634533e106c1768db61d&oe=54F1123D&__gda__=1425047651_8a1fc0c5314b5759be58829ec0c5f608
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 November 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/hunter-pence-gets-wwe-title-belt-from-daniel-bryan-at-giants-victory-parade-203652125.html
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 November 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Bee that 127m figure means sabean is going to give Sandoval a megacontract
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 1 November 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
shouldn't bryan be a mariners fan tsk
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 November 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Only after we give 3 / 40 million to Ishikawa.
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Saturday, 1 November 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
paying that much for travis ishikawa is dumb as fuck for many reasons
― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 1 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
But totally keeping in line with Sabean's history.
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Saturday, 1 November 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
i honestly had no idea sabean was still the giants' guy after those many years of being a laughing stock
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 November 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
It helps that they stopped throwing away their high draft picks every year.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 1 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
they did throw Wheeler away
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 2 November 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
According to ESPN’s SportsNation, literally every state in the union was rooting for the Royals over the Giants, including California, where the Giants’ own fan base was no match for Dodgers Hate and A’s Envy.
don't know if anyone saw that from grantland's column on the series by rany jazayerli, hashtag just sayin
*hears bee's head explode from rage 3,000 miles away*
― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 November 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
good thing i live in a province in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 3 November 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
isn't canada technically a dominion?
― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070426223122/memoryalpha/en/images/d/d3/Female_Changeling.jpg
??
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
ah, i see it is no longer technically called the dominion of canada
wtf is that lee
― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Sorry I'm letting my nerd show.
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
haha i got no bones with sci fi just have no clue what that is since it's not BSG, original trek or TNG
― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
DS9!
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
daniel bryan looks like a typical sf street person kudos to him
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 3 November 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/4/2/8/100348428/cuts/yostcostume_eq0nf7wa_mv4k5n7n.jpg
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 November 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
In trying to figure out how the Giants manage to do what they do, something like this is helpful:
http://www.billjamesonline.com/giants_defensive_positioning_a_big_assist_in_game_7_victory_/
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Since all teams have that data, wouldn't most (except the Phillies) be doing something similar? or shouldn't they?
Beating an extremely flawed team 4 out of 7, hmmm, i guess i'm still not overly impressed at what they do, aside from picking the right month to get hot every other year.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Just caught up with this Rob Neyer column (I don't check him regularly, even though I should).
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/alex-gordon-world-series-game7-mike-jirschele-royals-third-base-coach-103114
Ancient history, but the thing that caught my attention was that Neyer's mental calculation on Alex Gordon's triple was identical to my own--like word for word:
But something did bother me about the whole thing. I’ve seen a lot of baseball games. I don’t know how many, but I’ve been pretty obsessive about baseball for about 35 years, and we had two super-stations on our cable package in 1977 or ’78. My very rough estimate is that I’ve seen at least 45,000 innings of baseball. When Gordon’s liner got past Gregor Blanco, I thought triple. When Gordon’s liner then got kicked along the warning track by Juan Perez, I thought holy shit he’s going to score.
He doesn't question the coach, though.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7IgTE593oA
― timellison, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
damn i was sure that was about 70 years ago
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link