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ahem. as i was saying… all in all, it’s a pretty decent day to be a team spelled with an initial A facing a bunch of orangies in hostile territory.
But at least we didn’t have to wait for extra innings before something happened.
hi. i believe in stephan vogt.
Stephen Vogt is knocking on the door to your heart.
he battered that down last season. ;)
Watch out, next he’ll sidle up to you all sweet and puppy-like and whisper sweet nothings in your ear.
I was just saying too, that I went to my All-Star FanFest volunteer orientation today and there was a big poster of Buster Posey in the auditorium. It made me smile to think that’s as close as he will get.
did you rip it down and burn it, n?
buster poster buster!
When I say big, i mean like the side of a barn big, and way over my head. If we hadn’t been hustled through I might have looked for a stepladder so I could write (GERALD NOT ACTUALLY INVITED TO THIS GAME) on it.
gross!!!
Let’s go, other new guy.
I’m glad we got to have Samardzija’s first A’s start in the Coliseum, though.
I like belt.
He is a complainer
Challenge it, Bochy!!
It’s Hammel time.
stop.
o o ooo?
break it down!
:D <3
yes, we will.
AV’s crazy, this is gold!
Or FSU doesn’t remember what comes before Hammel Time.
That.
Ah, yes, I get it. I was thinking Hummel time.
Adorb!
Here it comes! He’s gonna burn his challenge!
Poop.
Jed smiles!
“Brandon Moss: Not a good arm”–One of the Giants’ announcers.
how did they find time to comment on the game while panning the crowd for people to say smug things about?
gamer babes
huh? is this a thing?
From the great minds who brought you “Grab some pine, meat”.
As bad as Glen is at announcing, perhaps his greater sin is simply being related to his brother.
we can bag on glen and ray all day long, and yet…
Wendy Thurm wrote a good column about it.
She is the smartest Giants fan ever to walk the earth.
Yep.
LOL, speaking of:
Is that showing up as empty for everyone not on an older iPad eating bread-and-butter sandwiches and smearing up the screen?
Supposed to be this
i think it’s a bad link.
fixed.
and heh.
nice.
Right on cue, they just talked about gamer babes again.
really sexist
torches and pitchforks!!!!!!!!!
Vince, as Boche emerges from dugout: “He knows he’s going to challenge, why is he taking so long, I hate the theatrics replay involves, just challenge already.”
Boche talks with umps, returns to dugout, no challenge: “The thing that’s so consistent about the replay process is how inconsistent it is.”
Wait, so Vince doesn’t realize that the “theatrics” are actually a stalling tactic so you can get word from upstairs on whether or not to challenge?
No, he does, he just presumed the outcome right away, then when events proved otherwise resorted to inanity to escape.
Vince has proven time and time again that he cannot escape inanity.
Which means neither can we.
After we clinch, we should have Vogt do a Campaneris and play all nine positions. He has to have already played at least five of them this season.
Clinch what?
Sore ass.
If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.
as long as it’s not raining…
Do you get paid well?
i think it’s been solved here before but i can’t remember the answer. what’s the actual reason the fans at ATT sound like a crowd of teenage girls?
AT&T park pipes in recordings of the Beatles playing at Shea Stadium.
I think that’s a tagline. It’s perfectly absurd, and begs and easy-to-answer question.
what did they pipe in at candlestick?
Weed.
a Sinatra show from the Polo Grounds, of course!
Recordings of places that weren’t awful.
i was just guessing what the easy-to-answer question would be.
So radio listeners can tell the difference between A’s fans making a noise because they reasonably believe something good is happening, based on their previous experience and understanding of the game, and Giants making a noise because OOOO PANDA OR SOMETHING SELFIE!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
sorry. the leadoff hitter made the ball go beyond the infield so i thought it was a grand slam!!! i’m tweeting it.
whoops. hey BFN. mind using your editing powers to trim that eeee string down? didn’t realize it wouldn’t break. will mess up the page for phone/pad users this way.
It has breaks.
TY!
(tips hat)
I’m looking forward to Hammel’s ABs.
So the Giants’ sideline reporter just got super-condescended to by the play by play guys after doing her segment. “Attababe, what a scoop.” “We should call her ‘Scoop.'”
why are you watching the giants feed?
1) It’s the one being shown on Strikeout.co
2) Literally any feed is better than Ray and Glen.
that’s why i radio and then run in to watch tv.
*watch.
fucking jetlag.
**listen to
embarassed.
this is what i look like on 4 hours of sleep for 15 days.
lol
synesthesia’s gonna git ya!
not a fan of myself rn.
Wait. Is creepy urn guy in the A’s commercials the same dude as the annoying “Nothing But Calculus” guy?
I just noticed that, too. May very well be.
Yes.
Has anyone picked up Mills yet? I want to see him pitch if he makes it through to Sacramento.
PU.
Urgh.
See ball go into glove.
I would really like for Sexy Arm to actually make some fielding plays now and then.
yeah, the rocket’s nice. but why go there every time?
Ask Elton.
I looked up Sexy Arm on Google Images and I didn’t find a single picture of Cespedes!
For the NRAFs in FK land, the game is on MLBN tomorrow. Unless I dreamed that up in my drug coma today.
Vogt: 29 games, 1.0 WAR
I expect him to be a 5.5 WAR player from now on.
Thanks, and go As.
because i lof him.
hi!
Thanks, and go As.
hi :)
stop walking people
Giants fan catches foul ball, proceeds to violently high-five every Giants fan in his vicinity.
blahblahblahVC
so close coco.
gah
oh come on.
newest guy, what the hell
Hammel isn’t making a great first impression.
Bring back Tommy!
What, we couldn’t have gotten Valbuena instead?
The new guy must still think he’s with the Cubs. He certainly is pitching like he is.
No Ray, Hammel coming here from the NL is not just like Mills coming here from the PCL.
Yeah, they hit better in the PCL.
Well…
Liking the other New Guy more than this New Guy so far.
two’s a crooked number too, VC.
So is one and zero depending on how you write them.
no way. anybody who writes a one with two strokes is a straight up for’ner and has no business in baseball.
‘MURICA!
What about three strokes?
commie.
Now you’re just lingering.
I have no patience for pitchers who can’t throw strikes.
You should, you’d walk more and K less.
Thanks, and go As.
lol
heh
Actually, when I used to play softball, I was the grittiest, grinderiest player on the field, especially when I was in my 20’s. I would make up my mind I was going to hit the next pitch before the ball was thrown back to the pitcher. When I got older, I got smarter.
Doesn’t really count when you hit it when the catcher throws it.
You came in like a wrecking ball. Just closed your eyes and swung?
It could have been a lot worse. But the only reason it wasn’t worse is because the bottom half of the Giants lineup can’t hit a fastball, which is the only pitch Hammel can throw for a strike.
Could be a Jim Johnson night at some point.
2 runs down in the 4th? A’s got this in the bag.
did i say 2?
yes
I love this. Being down by two feels like being tied.
Being down by one is a lead, pretty much.
Don’t worry new guy, we won’t hate you yet! But don’t talk to Jim Johnson any, OK?
Krukow and Kuiper seem to now be doing the “Gamer Babe” thing out of spite.
ROCK THE MOTHERFKING VOGT
Thanks, and go As.
<3
I ,
I BELIEVE!
I BELIEVE THAT
Thanks, and go As.
I BELIEVE THAT THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS FLAWED
well, obviously. the whole first past the post thing is complete crap.
Thanks, and go As.
There’s only one party: OUR PARTY!
There’s only one candidate: STEPHEN!
There’s only one winner: THE A’S!
sold. where do i vogt?
me tooooooooooooooooooooo :P
I was into Stephen Vogt before it was cool.
Just sayin’.
now we are friends for real.
How long is Vogt going to stay this hot? It’s just ridiculous.
I wouldn’t mind if he cools off in 2015.
Between January 1 and the last week of February.
Too bad Coco wasn’t on.
Vogt!
KK: one man, one vogt.
It looked like that homer was fielded on the hop on the concourse behind the RF stands by a guy in a Raider jersey who then rared back and threw it back into the ballpark.
He must have thought it was a Giants hitter.
Oh, Raiders fans. They’re adorable for trying.
I wanted it to hit him on the head cartoon style.
#72 Matuszak
Awesome, one of the very best, I would totally rock a Tooz jersey.
I loved the Tooz.
Was it really you out there?
If I’m outside a baseball park and I get a home run ball, I am holding onto it. That guy is probably going to regret his toss of the ball back into the outfield. But I will give him credit for team loyalty.
He’d have kept it if it had been hit by a Raiders hitter.
Maybe he was confused by the recent trade. After all, Samardzija is the best receiver currently playing in Oakland.
Oh come fking on.
please tell me why VC sounds like it’s the most glorious thing in the multiverse when someone hits a(n) HR against us again?
Because he is a man of questionable moral character lacking integrity.
i need to know MOAR, ben.
he sucks at his job.
Thanks, and go As.
So do you.
I’m actually pretty damn good at it.
Thanks, and go As.
Whatevs.
he doesn’t. ask ed.
i mean he did this time. usually he mumbles them out begrudgingly.
he does it for the espn teams
I.e., the teams he likes more than the A’s.
right
And the Giants go up 3-1 on a home run from Ugly Matthew McConnaughey.
McConnaughey proceeds to almost-fall-on-his-face around the bases.
True Athletic
I guess we’re seeing why this guy has never beaten the Gnats.
One of the problems I had with the trade is that Hammel has basically been a mediocre pitcher until this season with the Cubs.
He looks pretty mediocre tonight.
Yeah, Milone could give up three runs to a punchless offense as well as Hammel.
Well, not at the moment, because he left the RiverCats game after getting a ball hit hard off his leg.
Ouch, injury on top of insult.
it’s not the socks going all the way up. it’s that he doesn’t know where to buy matador pants that fit him.
hey-o
no eyeores.
Any idea why Glen and Ray pronounce Morse like “Morris”?
he’s got 9lives?
Really wish Jaso was starting today. Ugh.
yeah, what’s up with that?
LOL Rangers
One of the Giants announcers just said, as the camera showed a small child in Giants gear with his mother, “You’ll figure out eventually, your mother’s a gamer babe. Juuuuuuust give it time.” And with a nice creepy-old-guy chuckle throughout.
I can’t believe the producers haven’t stepped in
There is a reason why I listen to our crappy TV guys.
That’s just wrong.
all is well. nothing is fucked.
Cain must have hurried the throw because of Callaspo’s speed.
PITCHERS HITTING! STRATEGY!
fucking dumb.
Thanks, and go As.
Let’s go Coco!
EXCITING!!!
STRATEGY!!!!
With Hammel already at 85 pitches anyway, I would not have minded pinch-hitting there.
(Given the stupid NL rules)
I hate that, but yeah.
Also, Cain at 89, the 6th has to be his last
have you met his manager yet?
I guess for Sandoval, the best shape of his life is spherical.
Sabean looking a little like an evil Burl Ives there.
Now I’m imagining a death-metal version of “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas”.
Here you go.
Or this
This guy is reminding me too much of Straily.
Must be why the Cubs wanted him.
It’s not asking too much of Hammel to throw strikes to Blanco, amirite?
blah.
Holy crap, that bending thumb looked weird.
Ow.
What’s your diagnosis?
Cramp? IDK, I’m double jointed and my thumbs do that anyway.
Thumbs, fingers, and toes, actually.
Jason Hammel: successful and healthy with the Cubs, suddenly struggling and hurt with the A’s.
Great. We’ve traded for a bad version of Rich Harden.
They just had to give Hammel #40.
Clearly baseball needs to get rid of injury delays. They slow down the pace of the game. It was a fine idea to experiment with, but they need to go.
Did he hurt his thumb bunting?
@bear He IS wearing #40.
Shouldn’t they just retire that number, at least for pitchers?
Hammel comes to California and suffers joint failure. How ironic.
remember Hammel’s 1-2-3 inning?
Fucking NL baseball. Based on Norris’ motion whatever happened happened while he was hitting.
That was my impression too. There was nothing that happened while he was pitching that inning.
Runs please.
This is a fucking long game. Slow as molasses with half the teams a bunch of asses.
the Hammel break and the 10 minute delay in starting doesn’t help
This would be a good time for Donaldson to be awesome again
this would be a good time for Lowrie to be awesome again
acceptable
Yes, yes it was!
damnit. damnit. damnit.
Cold iron shackles, ball and chain!
Donaldson is all screwed up, mechanically and mentally.
But Lowrie continues hitting.
Jed!
that was a terrible at bat by Jaso.
First he grew his hair out again, second he was batting right handed.
Not as new guy!
The A’s are using La Potencia for a Cespedes promotion, haven’t seen that before. I like.
is that a third party shirt, or Athletics incorporated
A’s giveaway, so presumably their design or at least final say. Net Suite is the sponsor.
I don’t understand Canadian.
I like the new nerd power shirts in the team store. My boobs would make the glasses look like old time cat eye glasses though.
I am willing to help you test this hypothesis.
Freak.
I wanted to buy one of the Holy Toledo shirts with the logo they used for the patch whichever year that was, and they didn’t even have 2XL available. I usually go for a 3XL but can get by with 2XL. Plain ol’ XL? Hell no.
We are totally gonna win this game.
stop giving up baserunners guys
wait, crawford bunting in front of cain?
wait, what?
told. you.
oh. i thought cain batting meant he was pitching still. isn’t that the place when they use a batter when there’s a chance to score? i don’t know. i just don’t get the strategy. i don’t even understand it being called strategy. isn’t it more of an imposed workaround?
No point in wasting a PH on him when you get the first two on with nobody out, because it’s as perfect a spot as any for the pitcher to bunt.
Only, Cain couldn’t even do that much.
It sorta makes sense if you want him to pitch the next inning.
It makes no sense if you’re bringing in a reliever anyways, as Bochy did.
Well it could make sense if any pinch-hitter you would bring in is so bad that you would have him bunt anyway.
I have no idea if that was the case for SF.
They have Nick Punto and Eric Sogard on their bench too???!!!
Well, they have Joe Panik in the starting lineup…
Even more perfect spot for a hitter to hit the ball.
That’s National League baseball for you.
I think you mean complete and utter idiocy.
yeah but you already have a guy in scoring position, you need a hit eventually, going about it buntwise seems to waste one chance for that hit to happen. a hit which moves the other runner over anyway, if that’s what you’re trying to bunt for. that’s what i don’t get. it’s like, what’s the real goal in the situation?
A bunt in that situation doesn’t require a hit to score a run afterward.
And yet it wastes an out.
Not claiming otherwise.
weak NL! weak i tell you! make better things happen!
(not you booche. keep the course.)
Maybe now the Giants fans can stop whining about how the bounces never go their way.
Yeah, that was a lousy break.
eric, they are trying to give you an out
He wants to elicit a double play and have Cain strain a hammy on the play.
this pitch is gonna be embarrassing for one of them.
cain.
He was unAbel to lay the bunt down.
Real baseball.
NL baseball everyone.
That was a totally wasted AB. Thank you, NL.
Matt Cain proves why, once again, pitchers batting is a waste of time.
Why on earth would you let a pitcher try to bunt when you can replace him with a hitter who can… wait for it… hit?
Didn’t want to burn a bench player. Because in the NL, you basically have to have a pinch-hitter ready every inning.
Argh, Mollaspo’d.
i don’t get it.
What is it?
So slow. Seriously, I could have made that play, and I’m slow and old.
explain?
/running gag
you.just.blew.my.mind.
momentarily couldn’t believe how stupid i was?
(and then you could?)
the defense has been exposed.
2 runs so far today should not have scored
3
Say Ray, how great would it be if we had middle infielders who can field?
Speaking of total wastes, Alberto Callaspo’s glove.
Oh, I guess that’s what happens when you have two middle infielders with the range of a particularly unmotivated engine block.
A Yugo?
Callaspo, ugh.
This whole game just feels like a much-deserved loss.
And on that note, Johnson is warming up.
Called it.
So, I’m about ready for Melvin to start platooning Callaspo and Donaldson at third base.
So you want Punto or Sogard at second?
Sogard.
Actually, platoon. Sogard vs. RHP, Punto vs. LHP.
Giants announcer on Sandoval: “He could make a lot more fans right here with a base hit.” Yeah, because Giants fans designate their emotions based on what happens on the baseball field, right?
Norris should have tried to throw. Would have nailed the batter and FUCK FUCK FUCK
Well, I’ve seen enough for tonight.
Bad pitching, bad defense. This is how you lose to a slumping team that only has one guy – Pence – who’s doing anything dangerous.
the background music on the we’ll leave the light on for you commercial always reminds me of this song.
You mean Tom Bodett for Motel 6?
i wrote tom modett for botel 6 first and it looked wrong. went with what i knew.
Callaspo owes us at least a hit here.
Nick Punto as a pinch-hitter: 0-for-10.
Yeah, the threat off the bench here is underwhelming.
All right – we’re going all-in on the FAIL (that is to say, JJ is pitching next inning).
Burn the green alts.
Given the disdain they show for the traditional Oakland road greys, they’d end up playing many road games shirtless.
I’m… not opposed.
OK I am here it is OK to score 7 runs now
The worst thing about this game is that the Giants have not pitched well, and we have just been spectacularly unfortunate.
less unfortunate more “bad at baseball”
We hit Cain hard all night, and his command was nowhere. It just went right at guys.
sure, but the defense really lost this one. With adequate defense, its 2-2
the A’s don’t have a 1-2-3 inning
Never fear – JJ’s here (to ensure that streak continues)
Ahem.
(never fails)
We’re not only not going come back and take the lead this inning, we’re going to go down meekly one two three.
The A’s have gotten into a bad habit of sucking at Phone Company Park.
Tomorrow, they have to face Tim Hudson, who hasn’t been quite as good lately but is still awfully good – and Tim Hudson against the A’s.
And then the Mariners, a team that’s arranged everything just so their best three starters can face the A’s while the Angels play the horrific Rangers.
this is really annoying
Baseball is dumb.
they went to the green alt well one too many times
I still think we can win this one…
get a run or two off Romo, yeah
afelt.
I do too, or I wouldn’t be watching. It’s just been poorly played, and I am spoiled. And I hate losing to the Giants, and the Angels won, and the Mariners are apparently going to have a bunch of relievers pitch tomorrow just so Felix can pitch against the A’s. That seems pretty dumb.
this is dumb.
This can be fixed by rule
like the leadoff hitter has to be “entered” into the game before the pitcher throws 3 pitches
Any pitcher who takes warm ups must pitch to at least one batter regardless of offensive changes.
Losing to a bad team playing badly is really annoying.
Yoenis, you owe us a run
How many bad pitches are we going to swing at in this inning?
Twins fans are having to stay up late too.
I am biased, yes, but I’ve been to a lot of different parks, and there’s only one where a huge percentage of the home fans act like ridiculous cretins (haven’t been to Boston for awhile.)These people… these are not my kind of people…
It appears they employ like 30 blond (every single one of them are blond) 15-29 year old females in hideous colors to just smile and waive during the inning breaks.
We need a 2B or SS, poor O’Flaherty.
That pitch to Pence was the worst pitch of the season.
Fuck the Giants.
Weird thing happened before the game. They started announcing the A’s lineup and putting it up on the scoreboard. When they announced Vogt second, they put “Bartolo Colon P” up on the scoreboard, then quickly took the whole lineup off the scoreboard while they read it.
he was #40 last year
and 23 in 2012
And about 290 in 2014, give or take a few pounds.
Colon has never worn 23. Actually did wear 21 in 2012, though.
And in 2004.
I am officially ready for the era of the Donaldson/Callaspo third base platoon. Sogard and Punto would platoon at second base. Lowrie would have surgery performed on his fuckin-move-faster muscle.
Hammel was bad. I think he was 0-2 or 1-2 on at least half the guys that go on.
the need for a SS/2b is great. this game is winnable with that addition.
Where was Jaso? did we get an explanation as to why Jaso was out and norris in? Is it the day game after a night game thing?
Sometimes, yoenis, its best to let the guy get to third
now that I am thinking about it, Vogt is also a lefty batter
I suppose Felix Iwakuma, young and Elias are all righties, so Norris has to play sometimes, I wish we waited fo teh DH to get him more at bats