I don’t usually do this, but I’m taking the day off, so I figured I’d yell at you guys instead of the television….
Tim Hudson’s got some nerve bitching about those ball calls. He threw about four strikes that whole inning, and the ump gave him about five more as gifts.
UPDATE: Did Heyward hit his head? Fontenot (first AB) already surpasses Sandoval.
UPDATE: Sanchez has got to do better than that. He’s failed to get the bunt down at least three times this season that I can remember. Is Bochy actually managing in this game? Starting the runners, benching Sandoval…. Seems like he’s awake for the first time in a long while.
UPDATE: There’s such a thing as being too patient. Huff (unlike virtually every other hitter on the team) is taking too many pitches. So far in these playoffs, he’s been in a two strike AB about 90% of the time. Huff needs to swing the bat.
UPDATE: Hudson vs. Burrell, third inning, strikes him out despite not throwing a single pitch in the strike zone. Between the ump calling anything with six inches of the strike zone a strike, and Burrell bailing him out by swinging at three balls, there is no way the Giants can beat him playing like this. The Giants should have about four runs already, but between the awful umpiring behind the plate, and the hitters –like Uribe– swinging at every pitch, they cannot score runs playing like this.
UPDATE: Sanchez looks terrific. Giants starters so far, 19.2 innings, 9 hits, 1 run.
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scott s. i hope you and your family are all doing well. shoot me an email. h.reynolds@earthlink.net
for the rest of the obm crew, scott s and howard in nyc grew up together in davis. spent every summer day when we were 15 and 16 years old taking batting practice and hitting each other fungoes. in the valley heat. every damn day. if hard work was all it took to get to the bigs, we both would’ve been all stars. the other davis kids had cars and girls, we cared for nothing but baseball. truly, deeply, nothing else mattered. seems like just a few summers ago.
scott knows me so long as to be aware of my deepest, darkest secret. that i have not always been a giants fan. that i formerly followed another team, that wore blue. (hey, my dad was from brooklyn, and we lived down south until i was 10, just a few blocks from the coliseum. i grew out of it.) ah, the folly of youth.
Whew!
Not much else to say at this point…
These games are speaking for themselves. Tremendously competitive. Not pretty. Not full of spectacular. But deadly evenly matched. From the first pitch to the last.
You have to take the mediocre with the good and with the bad.
Really sad to see this poor kid from Atlanta. Injuries have him playing out of position. I’ve never seen anybody make so many clank plays so close together at any level. Any level. I’ve always invoked the baseball gods, but holy shit, what is going on with Brooks Conrad is fucking just plain overkill. Its beyond funny or amusing or anything.
Stand up young guy standing fielding moronic, stupid questions and comments from the media guys afterward. There is nothing to say. There just isn’t. Asking Brooks Conrad about the nightmare his last two weeks have been is no different than asking Mary Todd Lincoln to tell us how she felt about John Wilkes Booth.
Those fucking guys are about one step
abovebelow a divorce lawyer.Every pitcher has down spells. Romo’s slider decided to take a few days off at just the worst possible time on Friday night. It obviously hasn’t returned from vacation. Go to somebody else in that situation. But it has seemed fairly obvious that Romo’s frisbee is acting more like a pub dart lately.
No matter what, there will be at least one more game in PacBell this season.
But,I cannot sing ze papers…since you have broken both of my hands.
You are the only one to make the parking lot in Davis to the Stick in under one hour. Maybe averaging 90 mph+ in that boat Chevy. God bless Ruth for ever giving you the trust to take us out.
Hope all is well in Big A.
Not to mention the Fucking Ramber squad.
As if anybody on OBM matters or cares at this point.
Fucking hate to be Conrad tonight. He better take out security.
ah, scott s. it just clicked in. sign ze papers, old man.
Even with a win, what a rough experience. That 8th inning home run was so startling and upsetting.
Anyone have an idea on why Sanchez was lifted there? He still seemed in control in spite of the leadoff hit.
so, you played at both uc davis and emerson junior high school. that narrows it down.
The Braves are lucky Romo is pitching with uncharacteristic awfulness.
bochy has to go
why have a 7 man pen and only use 3 arms?
the man got outcoached by cox again
the giants are lucky that the atl are all banged up
The quick points:
YES!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best win since Game #5 NLCS in 2002.
Howard Reynolds? aka The Flash
my bad, ishikawa walked. man, i feel for brooks conrad. agree with kuipe, conrad should be at third, not second.
whoa whoa wee whoa. three ninth inning hits to tie. this team is too stupid to know when they are beat.
why not just put the damn ball on a tee, if you are gonna throw the slider up there. oh my, that sucked.
giants starters have yet to give up an earned run to the atl