Giants Midnight Replay

GMR Field Trip

The Mets have a scoreboard problem. They start playing the “Let’s Go Met’s” chant before their first batter even gets into the box, which leads to the inevitable scoreboard prompt burnout by the 5th inning. I say, only sounds until at least the 4th. 

There was some pretty great banter back and forth between the Met’s and Giants fans during the game. And it went back and forth pretty well, through our bases loaded pop-outs, and through their bases loaded double play. Organic “Let’s Go Giants” Chants were squashed by thunderous boos but Giants fans definitely grabbed a foothold in Citi field tonight. 

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I’m just gonna post pictures and give a couple of my thoughts. But first…..

Stock watch

Rising stock:

Schierholtz, Fontenot, Lopez, and Huff (a little bit).

Falling stock:

Tejada (majorly), Burriss, Ross, and Vogelsong (sorry buddy)

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If you read this blog you know that I am a Fontenot fan. He just embodies the underdog thing. He had an important hit tonight and played solid defense at SS. 

Mets fan definitely remember Mota, and they don’t like him. Note to self: look up what Mota ever did to Mets fans. 

The AAA crew. Ford, Burriss, and Rohlinger, chumming it up on the fence. 

Just showing again how short Fontenot really is. Sure the angle distorts the view a little bit, but not much. 

Stretching it out. 

Burrell and Huff were chatting the whole afternoon before the game. There was not a lot of smiles going around. In fact the only one acting loose was Bochy who played catch with Ross for a while. Lots of focused looks on the Giants before the game. 

Henry Schulman in the wild. zoiks!

The only action shot I took all night. I was in foul ball territory and I got about 4 that were hit in about a 30 foot radius, so I couldn’t be holding the camera the whole time. 

Constant coverage!

Escape From Swirling Trash City

Giants steal one from the Mets 6 to 5

Screenshot of the game.

Wear it kid……. wear it and like it! Sure maybe that last inside pitch by Wilson was not a strike, but we were all REALLY cold and tired of freezing our ballz off.

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3 out of 5 Neukoms

It’s hard to really judge this game on the merits of “Fundamental baseball”. When you have a game where:

- Uribe get on base 5 times has 4 walks, is hit by a pitch and has no official ABs!!!!!

- Lincecum makes an excellent play on a high bouncing ball in back of the mound.

- And at the same time you have plays like this one. (which by the way was not Torres’s fault for the record. The wind there was like nothing I have ever seen in my life…. gnarly)

- And this play

- yet still record 11 walks in all…. crazy. 

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The Little Red Riding Hood award (hero) goes to Brian Wilson for K’ing 5 out of the 6 batters that he faced, and putting an end to my shivering misery. And Rowand for manning up and hitting a ball opposite field in the swirling wind for a 2 run HR. 

The Big Bad Wolf award (villan) goes to David Wright who was acting like a bitch, and a bonus villan award goes to the wind. This game was the coldest fucking game that I have EVER been to. Also it took forever!

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 here are some extra shots. 
Brian Wilson at bat?!?!

Love all this trash blowing across the field. 

Luis Castillo goes trash hunting between innings.

Was the called 3rd strike on D. Wright a payback call for this missed call? Probably not, but let’s just say that both sides got pretty nice calls.

More of D. Wright getting all up in yooo bizzness. He had a reason…

Rowand puts us on top for good. 

This was where are tickets were for. We didn’t stay long because of the crazy ass wind.

We ended up here because it was the least windy part of the whole park, which isn’t saying much.

This was my final resting place….. I watched the last two innings here, huddled in the fucking wind tunnel that is, (sh)Citi Field.

- Ya it looks warm doesn’t it……. I saw some guy’s wig fly half off. 

- So at one point I look over and there is a mini tornado of trash swirling around Schierholtz in the outfield……….. sucks

- also.. just a note….. give respect to Braden for pitching a perfect game today. I got A’s love, just because I got Bay Area love. 

You Can’t Win Them All….. Otherwise We Wouldn’t be the Giants

Giants lose to the Mets 4 to 6

Screenshot of the game.

Sergio Romo needs to have a little break from close game for a week or two. 

I made it to the last inning of this game…. Unfortunatley living in Brooklyn you have to make due with seeing the Giants once a year and when your work screws you you have to settle for one inning. But my Girlfriend went and got a Lincecum autograph on here iphone cover (at least it wasn’t her chest). 

Here are some iphone pics from the game. 

Licecum…. being a good sport and signing some. 

ouch….. got there just in time for this. 

The Mario award (hero) goes to John Bowker for making my hour long journey and my $5 dollers and my one inning of baseball worth it. 

The Bowser award (villan) goes to all Luis Castillo who made an excellent play to keep a DeRosa Hit from getting through the infield and effectively stopping Rowand from scoring, which in turn kept Wilson out of the game, which subsequently lost us the game……. ETC..

one foot to the right and we win this one…… (that’s what I think).

I am not optimistic about this series. …..

But we will see. 

Tomorrow I get high speed internet again and will be posting with more clarity.