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by shanghaijim on Dec 18, 2009 1:14 AM EST
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HAVENT THE GIANTS DONE ANYTHING NEW SINCE FSANCHEZ?!? I"M GOING STIR CRAZY—
OK, so, I was curious about people's memorabilia collections. What do you have? How many pins? Any Croix collections of note? Is there some unlikely or weird piece of memorabilia you have?
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Strikeouts For Troops Report
by shanghaijim on Dec 17, 2009 4:18 AM EST
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Them's Fightin' Words?
by shanghaijim on Nov 25, 2009 5:31 PM EST
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Lincecum is not eligible for my list because he has not yet won 50 games... I do think Lincecum is an awfully good bet for the Hall of Fame. Better than Greinke? I don't think so. I know many people prefer Lincecum's greatness, but I think a lot of that is because Lincecum pitches in the National League*. And, as good and as well-publicized a year as Greinke had, I think many people STILL don't quite get how good he is.
*Just as a starting point: Opposing pitchers have had 173 plate appearances against Lincecum in his career -- they are hitting .095/.142/.116 against him with 68 Ks against eight walks -- add a little of that to Greinke's totals and see what you get.
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New Broshuis Article
Garrett Broshuis just keeps getting better. (Sad AnVil cameo alert.)
2 months ago
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Lincecum's CY chances
by shanghaijim on Oct 3, 2009 1:23 AM EDT
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After Lincecum was knocked out early in the LA series, Rob Neyer said there was no way he would win the Cy Young this year, and I agreed with him. But it looks a lot more compelling than I (we) thought.
ERA: Carpenter (Lincecum 2nd)
Wins: Wainwright (Lincecum tied with 7 for 4th) (Carpenter 2nd)
K: hahahahahaha (Wainwright 4th, Carpenter not in contest)
WHIP: Haren (Carpenter 2nd) (Lincecum 4th) (Wainwright 10th)
I guess those are the big four stats. I bet some will value wins more, more than a few will look to WHIP. (I mean, if a guy like ME is now talking about WHIP ...)
Also, for the heck of it, I noted Lincecum has 2 complete game shutouts, Carpenter 1, Wainwright ... can't find him, and Tim (with Cain) has 4 complete games, one more than Carpenter.
This may not add up to a sure-fire winning case, but he's definitely got at least as good a case as Carpenter, with more innings pitched to boot; especially now that Wainwright has failed to reach the magic 20 mark.
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KLaw at the Sunday Denver game
"No offense to Giants fans, but this team is just not good enough to deserve a playoff spot." I'd say this is true, but you know sometimes people get what they don't deserve ...
3 months ago
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Jason Schmidt's career might be over
Gone from LA with a "shoulder injury".
4 months ago
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"Cousin It"
5 months ago
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OT3: Buds, cans and woofers (headphones and speakers)
by shanghaijim on Jul 16, 2009 12:13 AM EDT
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We've listed our hippest choices and our guilty pleasures. How do we listen to them? What's the best headphone? What's the best speakers? And at what price points?
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Best Baseball Novels
Saw this linked over at BBTF and thought it would be good to talk about. I loved The Celebrant and gave it as a gift to the guy who got me into the Giants in the first place. I also enjoyed Pafko At The Wall, the beginning of Don DeLillo's Underworld, which was published as its own volume, although I probably liked it more because of the topic than anything else.
5 months ago
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