Hey guys whtat up? I dunno bout u, but we need to fix the lineup. We have too much pitching and as great as Freddy Sanchez and Bengie Molina are, they need help! Here are some ideas to fix the lineup and take us to the postseason. GIT R DONE SABES!!!!!!

1) We know Edgar Renteria struggled last year because he was playing hurt, but we don't know how to make him healthy. My idea: playing shortstop is the problem, it's too physically demanding. All that running around and doing stuff is banging him up. Solution: move him to first base. Easier position, and J.T. can teach him to play it great. SOLVED.

2) Re-sign Bengie. We need his homers and his gritty leadership and his pitch-calling BAD. Let him walk, and the team ERA goes up 1 point MINIMUM. The only problem is he's not a great cleanup guy. But he's a good RBI guy, so he can hit third. SOLVED.

3) Pablo hits great, but is third base the best spot for him? He played above expectations at third as a fat man, and now he's losing weight, dropping pounds like Jose Cruz Jr. dropping postseason fly balls. I think he's ready for the big move, and (see above) shortstop is available - say hello to Pablo Sandoval, opening day shortstop! That frees us up to sign Melvin Mora, a great gritty vet, hit .340 with about 30 dingerz recently. SOLVED.

4)  The outfield needs to go. F the Lewis sux, Nate Schierholtz isn't going anywhere, plus I hear John Bowker can't even put up numbers in the PCL!!!! Eugenio Velez is a good start, fast, exciting, all around great leadoff hitter. Put him in LF, he'll be the best at that position since Hacman Jeff Leonard. For RF, get Xavier Nady. I think he was a rookie in 2008, and he was realy good then!!! To bad he was hurt in 2009 or I'm sure he'd be a MVP candidate this year. Plus, BAY AREA TIES. He can play RF. Finally, Brett Pill was hitting the hell out of the ball in Connecticut, he's young so I'm sure he can make the tradition to CF since Edgar Renteria is entrenched at first.

5) Rotation: sell high on Lincecum, trade him for some young stud who'll help in a couple years - I think Kyle Skipworth is a much better bet than Buster Posey, so maybe Lincecum and Posey for Skipworth and a veteran for the bullpen to provide leadership. With Cain, just cut our losses...he's never gonna get it. Early this year it looked like he figured out how to win, but down the stretch he went back to losing. He's worthless, just DFA. Jonathan Sanchez, move him to the bullpen. Last time that happened, he came back with a no-hitter. This time, with a stint in the bullpen, I'm sure we can count on him to get a perfect game AT LEAST. Maybe perfect 27 strike out game. With our pitching depth, this gives us the following great rotation:

1) Barry Zito LHP

2) Madison Bumgardner LHP

3) Tim Alderson RHP

4) Joe Martinez RHP

5) Ryan "The Big" Sadowski RHP

To go with our great lineup:

1) Freddy Sanchez 2B

2) Edgar Renteria 1B

3) Bengie Molina C

4) Xavier Nady RF

5) Eugenio Velez LF

6) Brett Pill CF

7) Pablo Sandoval SS

8) Melvin Mora 3B

What do u think????

It's been a while since we had a recipe thread. The last time, three recipes were posted that I still make - lemon chicken and pizza from Baron and kushari from jponry. All excellent.

So, with the postseason over and the Winter Meetings weeks away, it's high time we do another one.

I'll start with my own recipe for jambalaya:

Ingredients:

2 lb, andouille sausages (or whatever sausages you prefer, or a pound of sausages and a pound of shrimp or fish)

2 tablespoons cooking oil

1 onion, chopped

3 cups rice

5 cups chicken stock

3 tablespoons tomato paste

ground pepper

1/2 cup minced parsley

10+ cloves of garlic

1 green bell pepper, chopped

4-5 ribs celery, chopped

1/4 teaspoon each: dried thyme, ground cloves, ground allspice

1 teaspoon, creole seasoning

a few shakes of worcestershire sauce

a few more shakes of tabasco sauce

Heat a large-ish pot over medium heat and sautee the sausages in the oil. And the onion and sautee until it's translucent. Add the garlic, celery, and bell peppers and stir to mix.

Add in the rice, lower the heat slightly, and stir for about 6-8 minutes, until it looks oily. Next, add the tomato paste, stock, spices, and worcestershire & tabasco sauces.

Turn the heat up high and bring the mixture to a boil. When it does, cover, lower the heat back to medium-low, and simmer until the rice is cooked. If you're using white rice, this will take at least 20 minutes or so. If you're using brown rice, it'll be 30 minutes+.

Stir in the parsley and serve.

I thought it would be amusing to see how often certain terms come up on MCC. So, here goes:

Purple+Row: 2 Stories, 3 Fanposts, 1 Fanshot, 243 comments

Kim+Batiste: 1 Story, 4 Fanposts, 1 Fanshot, 74 comments

Butt+Pee: 1 Fanpost, 392 Comments

Nasty+Shit: 1 Fanpost, 101 Comments

Rectum+face: 1 Story, 2 Fanposts, 4 Fanshots, 153 comments

Suck+It+Russell+Martin: 2 Stories, 3 Fanshots, 192 comments

Taco+Truck: 33 comments

Leonard+Cohen: 2 Fanposts, 39 comments

Bob+Dylan: 1 Story, 1 Fanpost, 77 comments

Nick+Cave: 50 comments

Uighur: 1 Fanshot, 9 comments / Uyghur: 6 comments

Simpsons: 4 stories, 14 fanposts, 1 fanshot, 588 comments

Maybe this is only funny to me, but if not: what else can you find that we've discussed a disproportionate number of times?

Grant's front page post got me thinking about how I expect the team to look next year. I was playing around and came up with a roster - NOT what I WANT to see, but what I'm expecting. Here it is:

Rotation:

Tim Lincecum RHP

Matt Cain RHP

Barry Zito LHP

Jonathan Sanchez LHP

Brad Penny RHP

Bullpen:

Brian Wilson RHP

Sergio Romo RHP

Jeremy Affeldt LHP

Brandon Medders RHP

Waldis Joaquin RHP

Dan Runzler LHP

Some Medoicre FA or Non-Tendered RHP

Lineup:

1) Eugenio Velez / Andres Torres LF

2) Freddy Sanchez 2B

3) Juan Uribe 3B

4) Pablo Sandoval 1B

5) Bengie Molina / Buster Posey C

6) Aaron Rowand CF

7) John Bowker / Nate Schierholtz RF

8) Edgar Renteria SS

Bench:

Ryan Rohlinger 3B/2B

Jamey Carroll or someone like that INF

Before you tell me I have too many bench players, note how many platoons I have pencilled in.

What do y'all expect?

Details:

Date/Time: Friday, September 18, 7 PM

Location: McCovey's, 1444 N. California Blvd, Walnut Creek (which is close to BART, apparently)

Game: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants

The pitching matchup is Jonathan Sanchez vs. Vicente Padilla.

Reservations are under my name, which is Josh Burnett. 

Scheduled to appear, as far as I know, are:

1) jcb9 +1

2) jponry

3) oldjacket

4) tk

5) SoFa King Mike +1

6) merkin +1

7) Merope +1

8) j14

9) helmy25

10) TimLincecumIsGod

11) kdl

Goofus, can of corn, and Giant Voodoo said they were tentative in the past, but haven't confirmed as far as I know.

Come for the Giants baseball, stay for the swearing Rush debates Pokemon talk lineup complaints LOLs.

Some comments in the Sick And Tired Of We're Out of This Posts thread made me wonder how the team's losses break down, statistically speaking. I did some quick calculations (all pretty much by hand, not double checked, may be errors, etc.) about how much the Giants score in losses and how much they lose by on average.

I posted the results in that fanpost, but it's kinda old and not very active anymore, so I figured I'd make a fanpost. I don't actually know how the results compare to the league average...but they sure look depressing to me.

The Giants have lost 66 games and have been outscored in those games by a combined 223 runs. That averages out to an average margin of 3.38 runs per game.

Of those 66 losses, the Giants have been shut out 8 times and have been held to 1 run 21 times. So, in 43.9% (!) of their losses, they’ve been held to one or no runs. In the 66 losses, the Giants have scored a combined 151 runs – that works out to an average of 2.29 runs per game in losses. Aside from one freakish game where the Giants scored 11 runs and lost, the average is 2.15 runs per loss.

LOLfense.