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RSSUser BlogAs you've all probably heard, Eliezer Alfonzo, whom I've been backing (and McChron-adopted) since two thousand ought five or something, has been suspended 100 games for a second positive drug test. This is the same thing Manny Ramirez retired over. Eliezer says he'll fight it and that it was a random med that tipped the test. It must be that steroid overuse runs in the family, as I have taken far too many in my lifetime as well. Even my dog is on steroids as I type this (outer ear inflammation). While I question the wisdom of Notgardo's use here, I still support him and hope he can either move past the desire to use PEDs or find a great career doing something else. I'm still proud of him for what he did for the Giants while he was here and hope nothing but the best for him. Signed, Notgardo's adoptive mama
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Here's a chance from The Monarch of the Dailies to "Write the Wrap." Come up with something cuter, dare I say it? -- than Clutch Cody, Toast Texas and so on for the Giants' opening day against LA.
Note the privacy policy, they'll take your email address and your firstborn. But that should be a small price for one of the dedicated McCoven.
My die-hard Giants fan boss pointed this out last night. The levels of donation are $20 for "Timmy's Doobie Fund" to $500 for the Say Hey Kid and everything in between. Here's the direct link:
http://fysuinc.eventbrite.com/
Enjoy, y'all. I know McC can make this happen.
Dear baseball: I've loved you as you calmed my weekends and passed another Pleasant Valley Saturday in peace, I've hated you as you've pushed my press deadlines beyond their limits, I've loved you as you've made a newsroom scream, I've hated you as you made my newsroom scream in frustration over what the headline would be if they lost here last Thursday -- which they wouldn't -- which they did. I've loved you at 10 in the morning, gardening in my front yard; I've loved you on my Android phone, through your blip-ridden wireless audio. I've hated you when Brian Wilson made it just a little bit too interesting. I've hated you when it was yet another double play groundout. I've loved you to the point of losing my voice, I've loved you at my wedding day when I danced to Tony Bennett. You tie together years, "the summer they signed VizII," "the sign we made for Matt Cain's 21st birthday." I have never loved you more than now. And they're going crazy ... they're going crazy ... woo hooooooo!!
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OT: Wanna be in the paper?
by tk on Jun 4, 2010 5:05 PM EDT
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So you guys know I work for The Examiner, right?
He was 69 and it appears he died of natural causes.
Besides me? Anyone? I'm probably going to get those $9 seats up in 333 or wherever.
Someone on Craigslist is selling the tickets where you get to put up the Ks ... tonight! I wish I could go, but I can't. So I wanted to point it out because I'd love to see a McCoven get it.
For those who don't follow LJ links, and wise you may be, The Writers' Block Question of the Day is:
Imagine you manage a coven of baseball-playing vampires. The Cullen family is really strong this year and you want to bring in a ringer. Which currently active MLB baseball player do you sire?
.... I am so not fucking around, this is what it says. Is it some kind of Vlad-returns-to-the-Angels spooage? Is it a hit on Mauer for being so cute he could maybe be in a Twilight movie? Is it surrealism to see whose tastes could possibly intersect over fantasy baseball and Twilight?
Jesus Christ in the morning. WHAT IS IT AND WHERE DID IT COME FROM.
Jon Miller Bobblehead plea
by tk on Aug 4, 2009 4:19 PM EDT
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So we're going to be in the Big Easy on Friday night, the night of Jon Miller Bobblehead giveaway. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to score me and Mr. TK a bobblehead? We may be the only people on this board with a custom-made MILLER hoodie (it's a matched set with teh Flemming). We are huge fans. jdd wants to put it on the stereo during the games. I can recompense in cash, zucchini bread, or drinks at the next meetup. Let me know and my sincere thanks!
ETA: Ms. Events has my back, as ever. So we are taken care of.
Offday Truths, Ads Edition
by tk on Jun 18, 2009 11:31 PM EDT
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The Giants on the radio are one of the great joys in life. I think we can all agree on that.
But the ads? The ads. It's enough to make me shut it off sometimes when the Hellmouths of Anaheim-Los Angeles are beating us anyway and 2/3 of the broadcast is commercials.
Here are some from the hall of shame:
• Frat-Rat Wasteoid. "Potato chips come in a cylinder. Energy drinks come in a cylinder. Sperm donors come in a cylinder. Cylinders are my friend!!"
• Door Number Three. "Are you a dickless wonder with a t-top Mustang, a sexually submissive CEO in a Beamer, or a minivan-driving soccer mom who eventually will throw down with one of the drum majors just after the kids graduate from high school? WHAT'S DRIVING YOU?"
• Dennis the Menace, Revisited. "Ohhhh. You're Lisa Stevens from Wells Fargo Bank. My dad said you'll drop trou for an autographed bat!" "Kids say the darndest things!"
• Mars-Venus. "Girls want beach vacations, garden hoses, and pretty, pretty appliances. We menfolk only want to save a dime. It doesn't matter what product this is for. It applies across the board."
• Gam-Anon. "If you win on a lottery ticket, you'll have not just a few thousand bucks but also the miraculous ability to play a decent piece of hair metal and get mad hookers and blow. Always play responsibly!"
• Brokeback Brewery. "Herrre in the Rrrocky Mount'ns, where for some reason we all tawk like we're from Texiss, we combine mule piss and acid runoff and call it 'bear.' Coors sponsorship, I wish I could quit you."
• ADD Generation. "As if you don't get enough overstimulation listening to these ridiculous ads atwhichtheytalkfivethousandwordsasecond, follow KNBR on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Bing, Geocities and Livejournal! Becausesportsmovesfast! Muchfasterthanyoucouldhearitontheradio orwatchitonTV! We're so hard for social media we're going to push it even though it's going to make us obsolete!"
You're up!
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Post-Meetup Fun Chatter
by tk on May 3, 2009 11:48 PM EDT
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So great to come out to the park and see everyone who made it to the Baby Giants.
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Thought I'd pimp this here, as we have such awesome sports writers. But are you "willing to grind"?
Postgame 4/11 -- what did he say?
by tk on Apr 12, 2009 5:15 PM EDT
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So here's how this dialogue went last night ...
So I was doing my usual semidaily Brett Tomko google-stalk. (Are there any news stories? Any new blog posts mentioning him? Any new PHOTOS, por dios?) And I came across the photo linked in my post. I peered at the t-shirt. Deep Three, huh?
I emailed Deep Three basketball apparel with the photo link and said I was looking for one of those t-shirts and did they have any (because it wasn't on their main retail site)?
They wrote back saying it was an old tee but that they looked in a conference bin and found two and did I want one?
OF COURSE I WANT ONE!
So yeah. I have Brett Tomko's t-shirt winging its way toward me in the mail. Well, not exactly the same one he had on in the picture, more's the pity. But, closer than before.
Pathetic, me? NEVAH HAPPEN.
Dog Days today
by tk on Aug 23, 2008 12:58 PM EDT
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Is anyone going to Dog Days today?
"There has to be some bizarre three-way trade in the works where the Brewers will pay the Giants a lot of money to send Barry Zito to the Cubs."
--Mr. TK, 8/2/08
Rockies cameraman whacked by popup on TV
by tk on Jul 5, 2008 3:24 PM EDT
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You guessed it, my dad got beaned in the top of the head by a flying ball. He saw through his viewfinder Garrett Atkins coming at him, closer and closer, and he was thinking, Wow, I sure am getting a great shot of Atkins ... and then WHUMP ... ball -> head. He got lucky because he was wearing one of those thick headsets and the ball bounced off the one inch of padding on the headset rather than right off his head. He is OK, no goose egg, no headache, no concussion (we think). But he's having weird nerve stuff going on in his leg. I'm going to make him go to the doctor on Monday if it's not gone (as much as I can make him do anything from SF when he's in Denver ...).
Apparently this clip has been played a bunch in Florida and Denver and he might have even gotten on ESPN but he's not sure. The announcers mentioned my dad also happened to be a Vietnam vet, its being a patriotic holiday and all.
So if anyone saw that, that's my daddy, forever putting himself on the line for his country, whether in Nam or the American pastime.
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Auigh
by tk on Jun 30, 2008 1:19 AM EDT
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Just a nice, cranky night on which to update the McCoven on the state of the TK. It ain't too good. After my surgery on May 27, which didn't work out, I went steadily into a weird decline, culminating in an emergency operation on June 20 due to a perforated colon. They had to take the whole thing out, bring me in in an ambulance, worst pain I've ever been in etc. etc. During the night of the 20th/morning of the 21st I was on 8 hours' worth of painkillers each hour, with nothing really working until they cut me open and got the whole infection/whatever out.
Three days later was my first wedding anniversary. I don't think I was coherent for it.
Now I've been in the hospital since the 20th, will probably be in till at least next week and then go home and am afraid the same type of thing will happen again. There's still at least one more surgery to go but we're trying to hold off for six months on it because the healing from this one is so difficult. However if we have to do it sooner I guess we will.
It's always depressing to write these things down. But I know you guys don't mind too much or if you do you will ignore it. I'm pretty sick of medical ish right now and would just as soon be a brain in a jar. Where I can still listen to the Giants. Incongruously beating the A's 11-1. Anyway I miss all of you, I listen to the broadcast every day, but I don't usually have the brains to post anymore due to all the drugz0rs. Hopefully things will even out soon. I dream of that night in April when I went to the game and had those garlic fries. I thought I was doing sort of average then, but that's the picture of health compared to me now. To conclude I will quote our Baron: "Get back up." One step at a time, and all that. Thanks for the support as usual.
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Bud Selig gets pregnant with someone's manbabies if you choose the right adventure.
The Giants pull through and so do I
by tk on May 30, 2008 6:21 PM EDT
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On May 27 at 7:30 a.m. I was wheeled into the OR to get most of the rest of my large intestine removed (boo) and to get the previously detached intestines reattached to each other (yay!). At 6:40 that night I was in my hospital bed listening to the Giants beat Arizona ... again ... and again!
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Tonight is the night
by tk on Apr 26, 2008 7:34 PM EDT
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Those of you who read about tk's Awful Medical Saga of Winter '07-'08 will remember that I said one way my dad helped me get through it was promising me a baseball game when I was better.
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Gameday Audio help?
by tk on Apr 15, 2008 9:28 PM EDT
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This might be a technical question...
Caption contest!
by tk on Feb 28, 2008 8:18 PM EST
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Featuring everybody's favorite no-name, Brett Harper ...
My Valentines
by tk on Feb 12, 2008 9:38 PM EST
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So, this winter has been kind of messed up, let us say, without using profanity in case Jr. McPenisbutter or the Mayoral Spawn happen to be reading over they baby daddy's shoulders.
The McCoven did this
by tk on Aug 8, 2007 12:16 AM EDT
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There was a critical mass of dedicated Giants fans today, so you just know BLB had to hit it out. I listened to it in the car driving home from West Portal and Jon Miller made a beautiful call. He almost sounded like he couldn't believe it himself.
Watch the AAA All Star game here
by tk on Jul 11, 2007 7:59 PM EDT
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This works at least if you say you aren't in the viewing area ...
It's not going to break the HR record but
by tk on Jun 24, 2007 3:44 AM EDT
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... today (6/24) is the day I marry the guy who got me into the Giants, whose fandom I have now surpassed in true obsessive-compulsive style ... Anyway.
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