That series was about as ugly a series I’ve seen since the Marlins were in town. Maybe since the sweep by the Braves.
So we’re not talking about it. It’s time to do a little character development. Enjoy!
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Well, it’s either that, or because of those hot dogs they sell.
I seriously never understood why they’re so special. You can get those at any ballpark.
Most dogs are smart enough to know the difference between the hand that feeds them, and the hand that bribes them, it turns out.
What, with the way the Giants are playing, do you blame us to looking ahead?
Sometimes, dogs can be quite passive-aggressive. They know they can’t bite you. They’ll be the bad guy (or girl), and catch shit for it. So they’ll sit there, across from you, and just growl quietly. Non-stop. Doesn’t matter how nice you’re being, but they will.
Come to think of it, sounds like some best friends of girls I’ve dated. (And I’m not just talking about female best friends.)
As far as the Giants go…on one hand, they could’ve swept this series in Atlanta. Three one-run games? Easily could’ve been a sweep with some health. On the other hand, this was one of the worst stretches I’ve seen this team play since 2008. Disgustingly ugly. Ugly ugly. It has not been fun.
I hope Houston is as useless as their record makes them out to be. The Giants need some easy games.
What? There was baseball played this weekend?
Funny, just about anytime I saw a live television broadcast from Houston, I just stuck my fingers in my ears and went “La-la-la-la-la.” These days, nothing good ever comes out of Houston.
Boy, last night’s game was so bad, even the seagulls left after the top of the ninth. That shows you how important it is to have a healthy and deep bullpen.
In other news, The SF Lunatic Fringe has been nominated in the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards for best local cartoonist! We were as surprised as anyone when we got the news via Twitter at last night’s game. Please go vote for us, and check out SF Weekly on September 2nd to see if the Lunatic Fringe won! You can find us in Question 15!
So, if you haven’t figured it out, Sunday will be the annual Dog Days at AT&T Park. It’s a lot of fun, even if the Giants can’t beat the worst team in the league. Go out to the bleachers, and mingle with the pack. And, if you see a very happy golden retriever doing the Snoopy Dance…well, that might just be April. But don’t bet on it. There are a lot of Golden Retrievers out there. It might just be Fred.
While you’re waiting for Dog Days, what you can do is head on over to SFWeekly.com and vote for The Lunatic Fringe in their 2011 Web Awards. We’re just happy to be nominated for Best Local Online Cartoonist….no, wait, we’re not. We want to win! So please go vote for us!
Find us in Category 15.
Unfortunately, it’s just dreaming as of Sunday night.
Now, when I started doing writing (other than journalism), something I was always told was “Don’t base your characters on real people.” I broke the rule here.
April and Robyn. April's the cute blonde. Wait...she's the cute blonde wearing the panda hat.
April is a real dog, belonging to a friend of mine. (Seen here, mom and dog. No, Mom is most definitely NOT Nyssa.) I first met April when she was a pup. I didn’t see her again until she was a year old, and she didn’t remember me at all. In fact, she didn’t like me at all. She’d just sit there and growl. Real quietly. No biting or barking, since she knew that Mom would be mad, but a lot of passive aggressive quiet growling. And that when on for several months.
Now, I’m good friends with her mom, so I knew this couldn’t keep going. So I decided to try and get her to like me by choosing a day out just for her. So I tried to figure out something I’d enjoy that was just for her (this probably is why my dating life sucks). So, Dog Days at the Giants game seemed like a great fit.
And it worked! April can be a little shy at times, but she did great at the game. She was shy at first, even doing her best to fit under the bench in front of us, and pulling it off. (Seriously, sit in the bleachers, look at the bench in front of you, and see how much room there is. An 18-month old golden retriever slipped through that.) But soon, she was into it. Leaning on the bench in front of us, and enjoying the energy of the crowd.
Now, she can’t not run right to me whenever she sees me, even notably pulling off a perfect Snoopy dance on occasion).
I had to share April’s tale in this comic, and she’ll be around again. And apparently, she’s getting more famous; reportedly, she got on the scoreboard at Sunday’s Dog Days, wearing her mom’s panda hat from last year’s playoffs. (We were sitting under the scoreboard, so I can’t say I saw it. Now I’m off to the Giants website to try and get the scoreboard video for $40.
Finally, please keep voting for us for the Best Local Cartoonist award in SFWeekly’s Best Of Web 2011 awards! Voting ends Tuesday! Click the logo below and find us in Category 15.
You don’t have to vote for everything (though please look through the list), and after clicking ‘Submit’, you don’t have to fill out the ‘Register’ screen that appears after the poll…but you do have to click Submit a second time for the vote to count!
If you haven’t been following the Anonymous/BART drama, well, you’re probably not a commuter.
To be blunt and short about it, no matter what sympathies I may have for the reasons behind the protest, I just can’t respect Anonymous. They’re cyber-bullies. They are the ultimate hypocrites, striking at their adversaries by posting their private information, while their name alone proudly declares their own privacy. And most ridiculously, they’ve ripped off a Hollywood-grown, developed and delivered symbol to symbolize themselves. Way to be counter-culture guys, even if you’re Natalie Portman fans.
I find it especially laughable that the group so dedicated at fighting abuses of power has chosen the effigy of a man who wanted to install into power a puppet, child ruler whose strings would be controlled by an ultra-conservative, religious-empowered regime that was more than happy to dictate its wills and wants to the general public and control them through questionable means. (I’m talking about the 16th century Catholic Church, which is far different than today’s.) I wonder if there is a single member of Anonymous who understands the irony of it.
So yea, stop messing with our BART. Absolutely, there are things that need to be dealt with in terms of BART’s police and management, but all you’ve done is push those who are undecided in the balance of keeping order and security versus freedom to the former, by equating freedom with anarchy. Not cool.
Meanwhile, one guy working way past any delays is Rog Hernandez, the artist. Give the man some props on @sflunaticfringe on Twitter. He worked triple-time on this ‘strip’, and made it worth it. See if you can catch all the references to earlier this season.
It might be past the point of making sense to even protest this Giants offense, however. 7 games back. It’s time to start playing for next season. Bench Huff. Bench Ross. Let’s see what Belt, Pill and Peguero can do. Hey, it’s not giving up on the season if you’re benching the player who aren’t performing!
After a long season, especially one with hope, the mourning period is long.
The Stages of Baseball Grief apply.