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Further Evidence The Rockies Are Giant A-Holes...

rhys — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:12:44 -0000

Further Evidence The Rockies Are Giant A-Holes...

Get your Kleenex ready, folks...

LOLCATS Make It Into TIME Magazine

rhys — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:23:51 -0000

LOLCATS Make It Into TIME Magazine

Interesting profile on the interesting websites of aspiring mogul Ben Huh.

Open Opposition Thread

rhys — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:17:43 -0000

Open Opposition Thread

Colorado up 2-1 in the 8th right now
Dodgers vs. Cubs starts at 7:10 PDT

LOL Deceptive Headline

rhys — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:29:11 -0000

LOL Deceptive Headline

On ESPN front page it said:

"Giants, Eli, agree to 6 year, 97.5 million extension"

Talk about overreacting to a good game...

OT: "Lance Armstrong Inspires Thousands To Come In Third To Cancer"

rhys — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:09:04 -0000

OT: "Lance Armstrong Inspires Thousands To Come In Third To Cancer"

The Onion takes aim at the world of cycling...and creates some controversy. The article is certainly funny...but many are debating whether or not it is cruel to cancer patients. Thoughts?

SF/COL Game Is On MLB Network Tonight

rhys — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:02:42 -0000

SF/COL Game Is On MLB Network Tonight

It'll be blacked out in the SF and Denver markets, but this is good news for us displaced Giants fans.

OT: Comic-Con Season 4 Dexter Preview

rhys — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:49:05 -0000

OT: Comic-Con Season 4 Dexter Preview

A pretty awesome 3:30 video previewing the highly-anticipated Season 4 of Showtime's dark drama. Debuts September 27th.

RIP Walter Cronkite

rhys — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:23:13 -0000

Small Box Scores - A Quest

rhys — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:05:35 -0000

I have been searching the INTERWEBZ for the last few days, looking for a compact, newspaper-style box score archive. B-R (which the title links to) has all the box scores, but they are a full page long. Is there any place you guys know of that has the smaller-sized ones?

1/2 Season Review: The Best Games

rhys — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:30:51 -0000

This post, along with its brother (the worst games), serves as a recap of the best Giants games of the year so far at this halfway point. Please feel free to read up, look at the box scores, and vote copiously for the game you feel was the best so far.

April 7th, 2009 (Opening Day) – Giants 10, Brewers 6 – Travis Ishikawa hit a 3-run triple, and Randy Winn, Bengie Molina, and Aaron Rowand all homered. Only bad part was Lincecum staying in for only 3 innings. Notable: one of only four games this year where the Giants have been able to score 10 or more runs.

April 17th, 2009 – Giants 2, D-Backs 0 – Jonathan Sanchez actually pitched 6 2/3 innings of shutout ball, Andres Torres hit "the world’s fastest home run," and the Giants pulled themselves out of their season-opening 2-7 slide.

April 19th, 2009 – Giants 2, D-Backs 0 – Randy Johnson, Bob Howry, and Brian Wilson combined on a 1-hit shutout. Pablo "Sanchez" Sandoval went 3-4 and Fred Lewis was still hitting .395.

May 12th, 2009 – Giants 9, Nationals 7 – Pablo Sandoval hit a walk-off 3-run HR on a 2-2 pitch with two outs, complete with iconic bat-flip, and the Giants scored 7 of their 9 runs with two outs.

June 4th, 2009 – Giants 5, Nationals 1 – Randy Johnson won his 300th game, and Brian Wilson struck out 4 Nats for all of his 4 outs, preserving what was once a close 2-1 game.

June 12th, 2009 – Giants 3, Athletics 0 – Tim Lincecum pitched a complete game shutout and the offense was good enough.

June 23rd, 2009 – Giants 4, Athletics 1 – Timmy pitches another complete game and strikes out 12 A’s, Nate Schierholtz rips three hits.

June 29th, 2009 – Giants 10, Cardinals 0 – Some guy named Tim Lincecum pitches a complete-game 2-hit shutout, and the Giants offense explodes, touching a mysterious white pentagon many times.

First two games of the Astros series, July 3-4th, 2009 - Giants 22, Astros 0 - Tim Lincecum and Ryan Sadowski combine for 14 shutout innings, the Giants offense becomes suddenly potent, as Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa each go yard and 27 hits are produced, and the Astros sputter in every possible way, creating a perfect storm of delicious baseball.

via www.mlbfrontoffice.com

Poll

What was the best Giants game of the first 81?

April 7th vs. Brewers (Opening Day)

2 votes

April 17th vs. D-Backs

1 votes

April 19th vs. D-Backs

1 votes

May 12th vs. Nationals

76 votes

June 4th vs. Nationals

1 votes

June 12th vs. Athletics

8 votes

June 23rd vs. Athletics

6 votes

June 29th vs. Cardinals

39 votes

July 3-4th vs. Astros

17 votes

Not Represented (I can add more if the need arises)

6 votes

157 votes | Poll has closed