Giants Midnight Replay

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The Meat Grinder

The meat grinder continues to grind. …..(wow, john miller just said meat grinder when I was typing that!) ….. I just think that Meat Grinder is the perfect nickname for Aaron Rowand. He is obviously a serious Lunk Head (aka.. he is dumb as the dirt that he is standing on) but he has some sort of strange Lennie Small qualities. He is admirable because of his single mindedness. Maybe he is kind to small animals and raises pigeons or something. I can see him trying to relate to some sort of life form who has the same intellect level as him. (wow that was harsh, sorry if you’re some sort of intellectual Rowand). He is a grinder, we all know that. But a sort of inadequate small grinder that you have to hand crank. Hence the name…. Meat (cause he’s dumb) and Grinder (cause grinding is all he knows).. Take it or leave it, the bastard really helped us tonight…. strangely. 

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The Omar Vizquel Defensive Achievement Award goes to: 

Tim Lincecum for the play that will most likely be on all the highlight shows, getting hit by the ball, running after it, and sliding very similarly like a play he made last year, and throwing the runner out at first. Tremendous play, enjoyable to watch. 

The Velez Terrible Defense Award goes to:

Brandon Belt, kicking a roller to first when you have runners on the corners is not a good way to break out of a slump. Brandon did take some fly balls in right before the game though. …….. so there’s that.

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The Holden Caulfield Award (hero) goes to:

Brian Wilson striking out the 9th. Brian is the Keystone (not the beer) in the cathedral that is the 2011 Giants. We are building on the fact that we can count on him to slam a door in the faces of our foes. Wilson needed this, so did the Giants, and so did we.

The Phonies Award (goat) goes to:

Juan Uribe for being a bitch after getting hit by Lincecum. Please dude. We just gave you a big fat expensive ring……. just take your base. You don’t have to tell the ump that Tim has hit you before. Don’t be an idiot, it was a 3-2 pitch. 

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Extra Stuff

oh…. this is kinda a nice look! I like this.

Ya… actually Kemp.. this is almost in the strike zone, what are you doing the limbo for?

Another epic gun-down by Posey. This one is Mostly Timmy’s doing with his new and improved “release time” out of the stretch. 

I know Bochy put this hit and run on….. but oooooh man this looks bad. Tejada got thrown out by soo much that he could have made a run down out of it. 

Can’t believe Pablo hit a double swinging at this pitch. This guy can be amazing. 

There was a LLF sighting (Little Lord Fontenot) unfortunately he has made little of his very limited playing time this year with a 0-9. I’m still rooting for you buddy. 

I’ve seen Zito roaming the dugout 5 or six times this season when he was not pitching. He is always wearing his hat like this…. It reminds me of the farmers who used to plow the fields around where I grew up in the Central Valley (Exeter). He also reminds me of some kind of western town sheriff. 

How annoying is that fan… the one in red who is walking in front row. Think about throwing down that much money for tickets and then it’s the 7th inning, it’s tied game, with a runner on 3rd. The 1-1 pitch is coming to potentially change the game and some total fucking retarded asshole is like “hey… um excuse me… um pardon me…. um… just trying to get to my seats…. umm sorry… just had to get some garlic fries…. meeep … haha…. excuse me…  umm pardon….” SERIOUSLY!!!! Don’t even come to the fucking game, if you don’t know how NOT to ruin the game for others then cheer from your fucking house. STAY HOME!!!

Ouch! Nate doesn’t even wear protection on his hands in this weather. 

This clown…….

And this clown…. on the other hand, have to wear two different versions of the October flap hat just to stay warm……. pussies!

I figured that I would put this picture in there. My cat Truman is an essential part of my baseball viewing experience. 

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This Week in Giants Facial Hair. (#2)

In a tragic turn of events, Tim Lincecum shaved his mouse-stache. 

It looks like Jeremy Affeldt is still sporting the terrible soul patch which will probably negatively affect his pitching.

  

Brian Wilson recently said that he was not promising to keep the beard all season. Which I think bodes well for my mustache prediction. Until then it seems that the beard is dominating. 

 

Our newest addition Jeff Suppan seems to be bringing a Circle Beard/Van Dyke/Goatee ya.. I’ve heard it call all three. But one thing is sure, it kinda looks bad. If you are growing facial hair, either go all the way to go mustache, just saying guys. 

uuuuuuuuuuugh, I LOVE this time of year, and I HATE it. Nothing to really write about, nothing to really talk about. Just a bunch of people talking about a bunch of stuff that isn’t baseball

Until next time…… grow a mustache. 

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To Err is Human… To Not Check the Runners…..

Lincecum loses to the Nationals 3 to 7

Screenshot of the game.

LOOK BEHIND YOU TIMMY!!!!!!! PLEASE!

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2 out of 5 Neukoms

- When Lincecum doesn’t check runners………… they run. They have stolen 16 out of the last 16 bases against him…… 

- Rowand, Bowker and Schierholtz  fail to get Bengie home with 0 outs in the 5th inning. 

- Lincecum can’t catch a throw back from Aubrey Huff after a pickoff attempt. 

- Rather lazy baseball and a Lincecum that has become something that I don’t look forward to.

- I understand that Tim Lincecum has a blister on his middle finger, broken fingernail or gangreen or whatever…. but that does not prevent him from turning his head to check the runner once in a while. 

- Pablo fails to turn even 1 after looking at 2nd base too long in the 5th inning.

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The Babyface Award (Hero) goes to Jazz Hands, as his monster blasts have become one of the only things that I really look forward to.

The Heel Award (villain) goes to Lincecum who got booed when he failed to control the running game, and got a sarcastic cheer when he finally looked back at 2nd base for the first time. 

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Extra photos, this time with more religious ferver.


Praise the Lawd! Jazz Hands doing what he does best. 

Praise Jeeezuz!




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Losing by Inches

Giants suffer a brutal loss to the Phillies 6 to 7

Screenshot of the day. 

Neukoms 1 out of 5

All good that was done in this game was erased by Eugenio Velez’s dropped fly ball in the 11th. 

The Kale award (health hero) goes to Andres Torres

The Bacon award (health villan) goes to Lady Luck, you can argue that taking Tim out was a bad decision by Bochy, and you can argue that Brian Wilson lost the game for us. But Werth’s bloop bases-clearing double was a fluke. It hit the foul line it’s just one of those moments were luck kicked you in the balls. As for Bochy I stand by him taking out Tim, Wilson was lights out soo far and saving Tim’s arm for the playoff (yes I said it) is more important. As painful as a loss like this is you just have to roll with it. 

With all that said…….. I just want to say this about the game also. FUCK SHIT DAMN ASS BITCH SHIT FUCK MUTHA_FUUUUUUUUCKER!!!!!!!! Oh ya and screw Velez! I HATE THAT GUY!!!!! …. no seriously, I think he just took Bowker’s place on the “headed to Fresno bus”.

Some extra screenshots just for “fun”. 

Lincecum’s fluffy locks on “Shampoo day”

Bow Before Lincecum

Werth getting AT&T’ed

What happened to us today. 

Ok let’s not let this loss get us going in a death spiral like the Manny/LA loss did. 

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Almost Perfect.

Giants take the series victory from the Braves 6-3

Screenshot of the game. 

4 out of 5 Neukoms 

Velez made a pretty amazing catch. 

Only 1 walk taken. 

Derosa lobbed a throw back in on a hit to left field and let a runner get to second. 

Pretty fundamental ball, not the cleanest game ever played, but pretty decent. 

The Jack Bauer award (hero) goes to Sandoval, 3 for 4 a HR and a double short of the cycle. 

The Time award (villan) goes to McCann for marking up Lincecum’s ERA otherwise there was not a really solid villan. 

Some interesting notes and screenshots. 

This game was THE perfect game. There was drama, there was a Lincecum win, a Sandoval HR, a great defensive play, a come from behind win, great heckling from our section, a hilarious error from the other team, and on the very last pitch of the game the it started POURING rain……. almost perfect.

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