Giants Midnight Replay

Cleaning the Desktop: Beards, Golden Puppies, and The Zito Stache

Misc news day here as the Giants gear up to take on the Father’s later today. 

1. So I guess I should have been paying more attention to www.brianwilson38.com because apparently at some point in the last two days they held the first round of the beard competition and I got blown out of the water. Even though I was the FUCKING 2 SEED in the whole 16 beard braket I got taken down by one of the tourney’s ringers Zach Galifianakis. Not that it’s terrible to lose to a hilarious comedian and fellow Brooklyner. But losing is very UN-Brian Wilson. So for all those who were going to vote for me….. thanks, and sorry for failing so hard. 

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Some other cleaning up to do for the site. 

2. After extensive voting on the “KFMGP” Award (Kevin Frandsen Memorial Golden Puppy Award) goes to Brandon Belt, even though he does not qualify for the #1 criteria for being a recipient, which is….. “• They receive way more attention specifically from the female contingent of fans than is proportionate to how good they are.“ 

I hope this KFMGP Award does not bring about the swift professional demise that it did for it’s previous recipients. 

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3. This shirt……. Size Small….. Under the tree next year please!!!!!It represents all that is terrible in fashion… a. Fucking huge wrap around print.  b. Your wearing a huge man on your back. c. Guaranteed to be out of style before you can even hit the purchase button.  d. Could only be more terrible if it had a equally terrible player on it. (Velez?) e. I fucking want this!!!!!!

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4. You know when you pass a bum on the street (I know you feel me on this one SF) and he has a pretty good sign……. Like you are almost like…. “Ya I’ll give that guy some money, cause I’ve never seen a better sign”   Well…. tell me where to send money for this guy cause he has the best sign I’ve ever seen at a Giants game. (I forgot who’s tumblr I stole this from….. sorry)
 Bonus points for the sweet stache. 

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Speaking of sweet staches, let’s end this post on a high note.  Here’s the promised gallery of Zito Staches. Enjoy
What is with this facebook photo style interview? Might as well have Zito pose in front of a mirror with a cell phone to interview him. 
The death stare. (don’t fuck with my ERA suckas)
Sad Mustache


“Haaaaaayyyyyooooooo”     or      ”Yaaaaaaaawwwwn”

The Kid, the Sheriff and Shotgun


The hell you lookin at!

Straight classin up the joint, 


And yes there will be coverage of today’s game. 

See You Latos

 

Giants win 6 to 4….. BUT I don’t care what happened the rest of the game. We got Latos for four runs in the first. And that makes me happy. 

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Last year while working at my old place of employment I had a running dialog with one of my co-workers Sinclair, who just happened to be a Boston Red Sox fan. It was around this time last year and the Giants were killing it in spring training. I was listening to all the games since it had been a long off season. Every day I would trudge through the snow on my way to serve skinny lattes to god-awful Carroll Gardens dwellers. But every day I had one more victory to goad about when I got to work. Finally when spring training was almost over I was once again rubbing the Giants spring training record in Sinclair’s face…. I remember him saying… ” You know they don’t hand out rings for winning the Cactus League” ……”Don’t they……” I said “Don’t they”… At that point….sure…. I was full of shit. But I did add…”we’ll see”. 

I quit that job, it was a nightmare. My boss was am overbearing lady with no real experience with running a coffee shop. I left for greener pastures, my friend Sinclair stayed there and eventually became manager. I came back to visit him after the Giants won the world series, naturally and reminded Sinclair of our conversation. 

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The Tony Soprano Award goes to: LBR OK OK, I know that I debated a nickname for Fontenot last week, but man he CRUSHED that ball tonight. So I will call him Little Babe Ruth….. just for today
 
The Mikey Palmice Award goes to: Mat Latos because Palmice acted like a whiney bitch and so does Latos sometimes. 

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    The Omar Vizquel Award goes to: Pablo Sandoval

I know he was charged with two errors but he was PICKIN it tonight!

 

    The Eugenio Velez Award goes to:

Burriss….. Sorry Burriss, I know the ground is hard and the hops in spring training are weird, but you gotta make one of those two plays. 

  

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A couple of players broke out of their slumps tonight. Good for you cabbage patch kid!

 

Rowand: “Yeah… I think this strange appendage hanging out of my right shoulder is what is wrong with my swing”

Bochy: “uuuuuhh……. I think that’s your arm”

Rowand: “ya that thing”

 

dude…. look how short Fontenot is compared to the ump…. thats crazy!

 

They Finnerty’s in NYC where my girlfriend and I watched the game, I thought it would be cool to snap a screenshot when they showed it on TV. Turns out that both of us are in it. I’m wearing the Giants hat on the lower left corner with the beard, and my girl is in front of me in the beanie. Yay, that about 1:30 of my 15 minutes already used up.

 

Bobbles:

Pablo get eaten up at the hot corner

Daigle is killing me, he always comes in late and blows meaningless games, which I don’t really care about, but it makes the game drag on and on! “Dude… You forgot the ball”

Raj “So you got a hit….. That’s good”

Rowand ………………………..(crickets)……………………

Brandon Belt, snaps out of his “slump” with this hit. 

Kevin Frandsen is a cute puppy who wants to snuggle in your armpit. 

Here’s to you skinny Pablo

Yeah… Little Babe Ruth…… just for today. 

After hitting a ball to the fence in dead center Brandon Crawford tries to bolster his chances at the coveted KFGPA (Kevin Frandsen Memorial Golden Puppy Award)

Kevin Frandsen, The Adventure of the Lovable Puppy Continues

Kevin Fandsen, after getting picked up and dropped by the Boston Red Sox somehow found his way home like all good dogs can, to sunny California to play for the Orange County Angels. 

In his Debut as a Disney Employee he went 3 for 4, even though one was a total hack-job-chopper up the middle. 

So no need to pour one out for our old homie, he is quite alive and well. Let’s hope (for his sake) that this is not September 2007 all over again. 

Ex-Giants Survivors From the 2006 Shipwreck

That would be Randy Winn with his first (and probably only) HR this year to help CC get a win in the Bronx on Monday night. Randy is hitting .125 with 14 ABs.

Not sure if you remember this ugly mug…. it’s Jamey Wright who is still inducing DPs for the team in Cleveland. He is in relief with a 4.91 ERA in 11 IP.

I think we all know this guy. Here is F.Lew dropping his first bomb of the season but with a cute little red maple leaf on his jersey this time. He is hitting .250 with 57 PA.

The older more bearded version of what a lot of Giants fans dubbed “WORST TRADE EVER!!!” Now I am not saying that Shea Hillenbrand was anything special or that he is even playing baseball still, but I don’t see Accardo having a spot in our bullpen with his, 8.10 ERA (no wonder they didn’t want to show it on the on-screen graphic) in 6.2 innings pitched. oh ya and he has not pitched in a winning effort all season..

Great News Everyone!!!! Kevin Frandsen has found a new home. He got picked up by The Angels of Los Angeles and Anaheim and has now is 7 for 15 in AAA Salt Lake, after being claimed off waivers. 

oh ya here is a little bonus……

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Everyone’s favorite whipping boy has landed on everyone’s favorite whipping team. Tyler “I can sweat anywhere” Walker has also not pitched in a winning effort (i guess that’s not that big of a suprise considering) yet. I bet the southeastern humidity has really fucked with Tyler this year. Here he is pitching in Florida…… poor bastard. To his credit he still has a pretty great pick off move.

ok I hope everyone has enjoyed the nostalgia with me. 

Kevin Frandsen…… A Tribute

The Giants lost 1000 female fans today. Millions of Kevin Frandsen shirts will now be used to wipe up spills in the kitchen instead of barely covering some female Giants fan’s bosom. Getting shipped off to Boston is not the same kind of doom that getting shipped off to the Pirates is, but he will probably sniff more bench in bean-town than in say a town like…… Kansas City. 

Either way here’s to Mr. Frandsen, who holds the record for selling more Major League shirseys than any other Career Minor Leaguer ever. In other news The San Francisco Giants just got a lot uglier.

Anyways in remembrance, I am posting a couple of his best moments as a Giant. 

Goooooooood Frandsen…….. oh yes THATS a GOOOOOOD FRANNY WANNY!!!! 

GOOD BOY….. YES YOU ARE YOUR A GOOD BOY!!!! 

here’s another one where he really helped the team out!

OHHHH THATS A GOOD CATCH FRANDSEN!!!! ATTA BOY…… NOW GO FETCH THIS FRISBEE IN BOSTON.

A word to The Red Sox…… If you want to get the best production out of Kevin Frandsen you kinda have to treat him well. Well darn here’s a video that might help you in your Kevin Frandsen experience. 

Goodbye Buddy. You’ve been loyal…. I guess that’s all we could have asked for.

The Not So Fine Moments of The Game

Some Pics from last nights beat-down from the Padres. 

Eugenio Velez……Caught Stealing by a MILE!!!

Matt Down’s throw pulls Aubrey Huff off 1B/

Kevin Frandsen does further damage to this puppy dog persona by dropping a routine ground ball. 

40 Giants in 37 days

Kevin Frandsen

How will he do this year?

ahhhhhh goooood Frandsen……ohhhhh THATS a GOOOD Frandsen! ….. oh yes you are! yes you are! your such a good Frandsen. Come here and give me a smooooochy wooochy, my little smoochy bear! oh oh oh you little stinkie Frandsen……. YES YES you are such a silly little Frandsen! Go fetch!

Do I like the guy?

ok ok I admit it. I kinda am rooting for Kevin Frandsen….. there I said it. 

Would I hang out with him?

At Dolores Park with a frisbee, hells yes!

Will he have an essential part on the 2010 Giants.

SIT….. SIT…..nooooooo…. SIT…. ok now play dead…… ohhhhhh thats such a good Frandsen. YES YOU ARE!!!!! ooooooooohhh YES YOU ARE….. NOOOOO………. NOT YET………SIT!!!   NOW BEG!….. goooood doggie…. Fransden. 

The SF Giants breed a VERY special kind of mediocre. And if that were a prize at a dog show………… you can guess who would win.