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shanghaijim

Dec 08, 2008 Dec 23, 2009 18 3899

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Memorabilia Collections


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

 

Point one: Barry Zito looks scared.

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Them's Fightin' Words?

 

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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Garrett Broshuis just keeps getting better. (Sad AnVil cameo alert.)

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Lincecum's CY chances

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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"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 ...

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Gone from LA with a "shoulder injury".

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"Cousin It"

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OT3: Buds, cans and woofers (headphones and speakers)



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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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.

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