Joke Backstory: Fred Wilpon made some stupid comments that were published in late May. Brian Sabean’s comments were made the first week of June, a week after Posey’s injuries. Neither were smart comments.
There are days I would give Brian Sabean this much credit. I don’t know if these are those times. And as much as I love what Brandon Crawford is doing, this team needs a serious infusion of something offensive ASAP.
Yep, it’s been that bad. An entire infield is out on the disabled list. Belt, Sanchez, Fontenot, Sandoval and Posey.
I’m wondering if the San Francisco Giants as a team could become ‘Mayor’ of a hospital on Four Square?
And, in entirely separate news, you can win the DVD Box Set of the 2010 World Series from A&E Home Entertainment and MLB Productions. How? Click Here to find out!
Seriously, anyone who is not a Giants fan would say that Dave Flemming’s call of Edgar Renteria’s home run, with the voice breaking as he screams “It’s Gone!” would call it an embarrassment at best, and terrible broadcasting at worst.
Screw them.
Dave Flemming’s call of the Renteria home run was epic. It embodied, all at once, the built up emotions, the hopes, and the death of the pessimism that had reigned this franchise’s fans for years. It was purely in-the-moment, as baseball calls should be. And to be frank, all the great calls in sports history are filled with that sort of emotion. What, you think this call was a calm, unbiased piece of sports journalism?
Would you rather remember it with Joe Buck’s “Three-run home run…” where he lost 50% of the enthusiasm in his voice with each word? Seriously, he did the same thing in 2002 when the Giants beat his Cardinals in the NLCS. It’s measurable. The Joe-Buck-Giants-Half-Life. It’s a science thing. Ask the guys at “Surviving The World”.
At any rate, this season has had it’s moments, both good and terrible. Sometimes, we all need an escape. Like watching that World Series moment again. Over, and over. And over.
On that note, The Lunatic Fringe is teaming up with SFDugout to give away ten copies of the 2010 World Series on DVD, thanks to A&E Home Entertainment and MLB Productions. Yes, ten copies! How! Read this post for more details.
Then turn on your Twitter during tonight’s game.
At 7:30, a trivia question will be asked on the @sfdugout Twitter feed. The first two who get it right get a copy.
At 7:45, another trivia question will be asked on the @sflunaticfringe Twitter feed. The first two correct answers get a copy.
On Thursday, it’ll happen on the Facebook pages. On Friday, over at the forums for SF Lunatic Fringe.
And, if you don’t win a copy, keep in mind that Father’s Day is just around the corner. And Dad will always need an escape, once in a while. Especially from those horrid ties. Or maybe you’re Dad, and your kid is too young to buy you something. Buy it for yourself, so you can be the greatest Dad in the world and be able to tell your kids the story of the 2010 San Francisco Giants someday.
And the best part of the DVD? It’s got the KNBR feed, so you can hear Dave Flemming’s call.
You can pick up the DVD from the MLB.com Store here.
I wonder, is it any coincidence that, a day before the World Champion Giants come to Oakland in the yearly Interleague showcase, the trailer for Moneyball is unleashed on the world?
Seriously, Brad Pitt as a math genius? Billy Beane as Brad Pitt? Unbelievable. So, you know the nerdy kid played by Jonah Hill in the trailer? Peter Brand? Doesn’t exist. Seriously, THAT is Billy Beane’s Tyler Durden.
(Okay, he’s supposed to be Paul DePodesta, but the guy who has the two worst owners in baseball as references on his resume decided he didn’t want Superbad to display one of the finer moments of his career. So we get the doughy, fat, nerd sidekick instead of a Mark Zuckerberg looking Ivy League nerd. Even when celebrating baseball’s nerds, Hollywood still manages to insult nerds.)
The over/under on hearing commentaries about the possible A’s move to San Jose this weekend is 5. But Bud Selig is too spineless to make a decision on this, especially since the Giants are his new golden goose. Showtime TV series, the most marketable stars for a new generation of baseball. The New York Yankees market clean-shaven guys; the Giants can barely market their clean-shaven guys.
What happens when the Rebels and Misfits go mainstream?
It means that San Jose has the winningest team in professional baseball. And it won’t be the San Jose Athletics. Not anytime soon.
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!
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.
I don’t know how far in advance All-Star Ballots have to be printed, but they are always good for a laugh in June. Sure, there’s no way they could predict a late-May injury to Buster Posey. But the Huff-as-outfielder experiment ended barely weeks after it had begun. Couldn’t those sort of adjustments be made?
It’s not like Huff, as he’s playing this season, was a big threat to get voted in, but I don’t think anyone outside of a fan who’d seen Manny Ramirez play the outfield would want Huff out there. And, well, no Dodgers fan would’ve voted for Huff.
On that note, have you voted? Go vote, already! Let’s be honest, there isn’t a current position player on this team who will be starting the All-Star Game, especially with Posey injured. But, maybe there can be a symbolic vote-in of the team’s missing leader.
Then again, there’s a lot of very deserving pitchers, who fans don’t get to vote on. But, then, that’s the Giants of this generation.
To be frank, I don’t care if anyone other than Giants and Pirates fans even had a clue of what his name was before this season. I don’t care if he doesn’t have a track record.
On a staff of great pitchers, he’s become one of the league’s best stories. It’s a redemption and underdog story, the kind baseball fans usually love.
So screw the east coast fans who think that the third-best pitcher on the Phillies/Braves/whoever is more deserving. Vogelsong should be there.
I have no idea why I’m making ‘Cricket’ one of the tags over there. Just in case. I mean, there’s gotta be a place for a good cricket storyline, right?
Seriously, there’s a part of me that wonders if this whole Brian Wilson tantrum thing was as calculated as everything else he does. If he got back into the dugout, saw the camera on him, and decided he needed to do something wild and crazy, and take the focus off the onfield torture. Improvised, yet planned.
Brian Wilson could have done that.