Giants Midnight Replay

Almost Too Easy

I don’t like Jackie Robinson day. I always turn the game on and think that the Giants have changed their jerseys. It always takes me about an inning to realize that everyone is wearing the same number. So here is Matt Cain, winning his first game as #42.

I am feeling something with Cain this year, as if he is going to do something great. I have felt this for about three years now. But the better he gets….. the more you think it. If I thought he was on track to do something special last year (which he did) then this year I have to assume the same. 

Year of the Cain……..?       I guess we’ll see. 

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The Omar Vizquel Defensive Wizardry Award Goes to: 

Gotta give props where they are deserved. Kelly Johnson made a pretty nice play on this “almost” bloop single. 

The Velez Award for Ball Bobbling Goes to:

Since this was an error free game I am going to put my favorite screenshot from last season up. 

ooooh lord I love this photo!!!! hahahahahahahahaha

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The W. Mark Felt Award (hero) goes to: 

Matt Cain, the guy is a beast. What more can I say about this guy?

The Richard Nixon Award (villain) goes to:

Again…… I can’t think of any…… This game was really really well played and kinda boring. I was going to say Jose Lopez for making Wilson come into the game, but… nah, he’s too good. No villain today…. So I will go with another classic Giants Villain Photo for those who know……

Mr. Poetry in motion…. The perfect Villain. 

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More Stuff

Pablo continues his beastly run. If he knew where the strike zone was he could hit .400 some year. 

I should have put the picture of Rowand’s strike out hat trick right here, but this picture has Rowand’s future replacement in it….. can you guess who it is?

Tejada is swinging a nice club right now. 3 hits. 

Call me a second guesser, but I don’t see why Ford or Schierholtz was not in right field at this point. This is the 5th or 6th inning. It was 5-0, Just felt like we had wrapped it up by then. 

Pretty lucky brake here, after a Pablo gone fishing strike-out Huff was hung out at least 8 feet.

Pablo is tearing it up over at the hot corner, I feel like I put a picture of his defensive plays in almost all my posts so far. (although he didn’t get the runner)

“Guuuuuyyyss…… Hey guuuuuuyyys…… I’m over here wait for meeeeee” says temporarily lost Aaron Rowand

I know that Fontenot didn’t really contribute in this game, but I just wanted to point out again that I am rooting for him and that the day that I didn’t do a game wrap he totally killed the ball and won the game for us. Love this guy!

I wonder if Darren Ford got his ring today? I really want to see this guy up in the bigs this year. 

I like how all the Arizona fans have given this guy a 4 seat radius…. I’ve seen some pretty terrible beards this year, this one is pretty epic. 

Wilson kisses the imaginary ring…… just a note. Anyone notice that Wilson now has matching orange (home) and grey (away) cleats? pretty legit. 

Don’t Call Him Garbage

You can say a lot of things about Aaron Rowand, but you can’t say that he has given up. I seriously dislike the Giants association with Rowand, but I can’t fault him as a human. He just grinds……… sometimes he grinds a little too hard on sliders thrown outside and in the dirt. But the bastard just grinds. Here’s to you Rowand, keep grinding. Who knows, maybe we won’t miss Ishikawa so much, maybe Rowand becomes an amazing pinch hitter. 

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The Omar Vizquel Award goes to:

Pat Burrell for closing on a well hit ball in left field and making a nice jumping play….. I know…. you don’t remember that do you, that’s cause the game lasted 9 hours! 

The Velez Award goes to: 

Tejada for two miscues, one is stepping on his glove the other was picking up a grounder that should have been Sanchez’s in the 9th that proved to be an infield hit. 

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The Tina Turner Award (hero) goes to: Rowand for getting two big hits, when no one is really on his side (including myself)

The Ike Turner Award (goat) goes to: Brian Wilson for not throwing strikes. Sorry buddy, you wanna be a bad-ass and close games, you gotta throw strikes and shut the door. Screw the dramatic flare, close that shit down. 

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Some extras. 

Huff Miscue #1

Huff miscue #2


Yeah….. The Cardinals don’t really care about this. They are here to ruin our fun!


Sanchez’s breaking pitch was really working today. 

Affeldt needs to open his eyes when he swings.

Tejada makes good on his first swing at AT&T.

Do we need to do more ground ball practice for pitchers? Seriously guys. 

It’s conclusive evidence folks, Burrell is juicing. JK. But seriously, he is crushing balls! (haha)

Sanchez hits a double…….. that’s big Johnny Sanchez, not F. Sanchez.

This was a key play, unfortunately those bastards who were scoring the game didn’t give torres a hit OR a stolen base……. come on guys, your killing my fantasy team!!!

Sorry Affeldt, but your swing SUCKS!!! hahahaha

This is garbage!!! Lose with some dignity you batty old fart! Don’t pull 5 guys into the infield. uuuugh. I HATE Tony LaRussa! I hate him even more because it totally worked!

This is how long the game went, soo long that the announcers started talking about their meat. 

More Umpire garbage, this same spot was called a ball on Wilson at least 3 times in the 9th. 

This one…… means nothing.

Cain laughing on the mound…. after a year of taking screenshots, I have NEVER seen this. 

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The Aaron Burr Award (hero) goes to Aubrey Huff who turned early (get it…. Aaron Burr, turned early… haha…. cause Aaron Burr turned around early in the duel………. come on guys read some history books geez) on a high Brett Anderson pitch deep into the night.

The Alexander Hamilton Award (goat) goes to Brett Anderson for two reasons. 1. Hitting Pablo with a high inside pitch (not cool). 2. But most especially for this! I don’t care what you do man…. you gotta take a swing, or at least step up to the plate and act like your gonna swing. 

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Omar Vizquel Award goes to: 

Pablo who made all three plays in the ninth. A sharply hit ball, a ground out, and a crazy foul out to end the game. 

The Eugenio Velez Award goes to:

Forgot this guy’s name….. But he took a bad route. hahaha

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Some random fun. 

Synchronized pop up dance. 

Brett Anderson’s box placement. 

More Synchronized fielding. 


When hick pitchers attack.

Best shot of the night, dude spills his bear everywhere while scrambling for Huff’s hr. 

There where 38 thousand people there this year. Last year, there was THIS many!!!

Good turn-around guys. 

Dodger Blues

The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant! .. oh wait.. it’s just a spring training game….. oh.

Ya…. it’s getting to be that time. Even the fans want to start the regular season. Not much to say today. I’m going to a pizza party in Bed-Stuy tonight so I won’t get all flowery on this post. Just gonna say….. WE WON!

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The John Lennon award goes to:

Cody Ross for killing that home run in the 4th even Matt Cain was impressed. 

The Mark David Chapman award goes to:

Javier Lopez….. Your a lefty specialist. You gotta limit the damage with Ethier at the plate. We forgive you, it’s the preseason. But we won’t forgive MDC. I guess it’s kind of harsh to be handing out awards with that dudes named attached. Sorry it’s preseason… I’m only warming up. 

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 On a lighter note. The Velez award goes to:

Runzler for going into a full commando roll after being too slow, taking his eyes off the ball and getting beat to first base by Gwynn. 

 The Omar Vizquel award goes to: 

Huff for staying with a weird hop on a bounce hit down that line that came back into play, and tagging the hitter (forgot who this was). 

Bonus Award…!

The Josh Beckett “slowest mutha fucking pitcher ever” award goes to:

Mota who made 2 innings of work breeze by like it was 2 YEARS!!! No wonder Ethier struck out, he probably did so on purpose cause he had to take a bathroom break. 

Ya take your time buddy, no hurry.

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Bonus pics: I know it’s only spring but……. check out the average on Buster….  .526!!!

Ya Lincecum… You look nothing like that taxi driver on youtube… Nothing.
 

Interviewer: “So Matt I heard you hurt your arm.”

Matt: “Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

(side note:… I really hate these interviews in the middle of the game thing..it really is not that fun to watch. And as much as I want to relive the World Series I bet Matty, Bumgarner, and Affeldt are pretty sick of it. Especially in the middle of the one game I get to watch all week, cut this shit out. ) 

I felt this one coming….. Pat the Bat launches one. 

Some random fans. 

The whole elvis thing is tired…
 

oh San Francisco. Jam packed full of 20 and 30 somethings with raging cases of Peter Pan syndrome.

Annnnnnnd… The perfect ending. 

Opening Day Special Edition (ps: fuck mlb.tv)

Giants Win 5-2 over the Astros!

Screenshot of the day. (due to the complete incopetence of MLB.TV there will be no screenshot today, if you would like my thoughts on MLB.tv please visit this link.) so here is a REALLY generic AP Photo….. grrrr. 

Neukom’s on the NRS (what’s an NRS?)

Opening day get a whopping 5 out of 5 Neukoms!!!

It was fundamental baseball all around. Great defense, especially three great catches by Rowand, Sandovol, Bowker and Derosa’s ricochet play that prevented the showboating Carlos Lee (he thought he hit one out) from even getting a double off of his hard hit ball that hit the top of the left field wall. 

Lincecum laid down two great bunts and the hitting was not as bad as predicted. The only defensive miscue was (surprisingly) Ishikawa’s drop of Renteria’s amazing throw from deep in the hole.

The Hans Solo Award goes to Lincecum, He silenced the doubters with this solid outing. He gets the hero award. 

The Boba Fett (just to keep it Star Wars) Award goes to Carlos Lee for fucking show-boating when he should have been hustling to second base. He gets the villan award.

Other Notes…..

I kinda feel bad for Medders, I loved the guy last year but I just feel like he is not going to last in the bullpen. He has just seemed off for a while now.

Some special notes now:

The Firsts of the year list:

Hit: Huff

Walk: Derosa

HR: Derosa

RBI: Molina

Sac Fly: Uribe

Bunt: Lincecum

K (pitching): Lincecum

K (batting): I forgot……anyone remember? (fucking mlb.tv won’t let me watch the game again!!!!!!

Double: Renteria

Win: Lincecum

Save: Wilson