February 2011
I think my TV might have died today. I have two months to remedy this situation before baseball season starts.
January 2011
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countingthesplashhits replied to your link:Choosing Up Sides for MLB’s All-Star Game
Brandon Belt! Wait…that doesn’t work. I’d probably just be biased and pick Tim Lincecum :). You could still take Joey Votto for 1B after Pujols is off the board. Mauer (and maybe even McCann) will go before Posey, so you can take him at #2 or #3.
Just wait a year or two, and then Brandon Belt can be your first...
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Choosing Up Sides for MLB’s All-Star Game →
Jonah Keri and Dave Cameron at FanGraphs decidee to choose the 2011 MLB All-Star teams the way the NHL does, with each team captain making picks until both teams have 25 players.
Since it’s the very last day of January (tomorrow I can say, “Pitchers and catchers report THIS MONTH,” and then I’ll probably do a happy dance), and I’m starved for anything...
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“I grew up in a town (Brawley, Calif.) of 1,800 people, and we played in front of...”
– Sergio Romo
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“True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win: They cheer for them not...”
– Will Leitch, Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball
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WatchBrian Wilson takes part in How’s It Hangin’, a Minute to Win It challenge that made my Twitter timeline fill with comments like “BRIAN WILSON HAS A HANGING BANANA,” which in and out of context, is hilarious.
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Just watched an east coast feed of Brian Wilson’s appearance on the George Lopez show (he comes on about halfway through the show if you haven’t seen it yet). The man is crazy. And endlessly entertaining. Totally worth sitting through George Lopez’s not so funny show to see Wilson and his outfit (the socks were sweet). Or you know, you could wait until it gets put online, but...
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“I signed a baby, for crying out loud! I signed a baby! Like, what? Who signs a...”
– Sergio Romo on the coolest part of the Giants’ World Series victory parade (via Mychael Urban)
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Giants pitcher Brian Wilson to debut short film →
Brian Wilson can certainly pitch, but can he pitch ideas for a funny film?
The wacky relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants with the famous black beard has co-written and acted in a series of digital short films. He is set to debut one of them Thursday on TBS’s “Lopez Tonight.” The show begins at 9 p.m.
Wilson acted as creative consultant and did some of his own ad-libbing in the comedic...
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Keith Law’s Top 100 prospects list is out. It’s naturally one of those ESPN Insider things, but as always, kind people on the internet have shared the most important part. (The most important part being anything Giants-related, of course.)
Brandon Belt (#17) and Zack Wheeler (#36) both made the top 100 list, which is pretty impressive considering that a couple of the Giants’...
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WatchAnd finally part 2 of A Day in the Life: Tim Lincecum. Watch Tim play pool and video games (as Cy supervises), make a joke about Bochy’s big head, and drive while singing a bunch of Hall & Oates songs.
This means that, yes, all three parts of the show are available online now for those of you who don’t live in the Bay Area or don’t have cable. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.)
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WatchA Day in the Life: Tim Lincecum part 1. It’s the Cribs portion of the show as Tim takes you on a tour of his condo. Pool table! TV! Video games! Closet! Cy!
Try not to keel over from excitement.
In case you missed it, part 3 is also online.
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WatchA Day in the Life: Tim Lincecum part three. Why CSN Bay Area has uploaded only part three, I’m not quite sure. But this is the segment where he hangs with Jaymee Sire and visits his hometown, Renton, Washington.
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Man, it’s dusty in here. Where’s that confounded... →
Baggs lives!
Now go pre-order his book.
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Just finished watching A Day in the Life: Tim Lincecum, which is exactly like I expected it to be, kind of like Cribs on MTV, only without all of the rappers and gold teeth and comments about “this is where the magic happens” when they lead the camera into the bedroom. It was funny to check Twitter as the show aired and see comments about how the show was kind of boring and how Tim...
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WatchEven Tim Lincecum makes jokes about how big Bruce Bochy’s head is.
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WatchTim Lincecum just won a zillion more cool points from me for driving around singing to Hall & Oates.
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Dodgers' 2011 payroll reaches $94.5 million; now... →
Deferred salary Manny Ramirez $7.67 million Juan Pierre $3.5 million Andruw Jones $3.37 million Jason Schmidt $1.5 million Brad Ausmus $150,000 Octavio Dotel $125,000
Look at all of the players the Dodgers will be paying money to this season, players who aren’t even on their team anymore. Nicely done, Secret Agent Ned. Nicely done.
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Giants, Andres Torres agree to one-year deal →
Now that the gang’s all signed, can we get to playing some baseball? Today? Please?
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WatchWillie Mays’ Harlem
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Old Time Family Baseball: Rays Agree to Terms With... →
oldtimefamilybaseball:
That’s the story coming via Jon Heyman’s Twitter account. Either the Rays want to stage a musical adaptation of the Red Sox 2004 season, Jon Heyman’s wrong like never before, or Andrew Friedman has done some seriously unexpected, and possibly brilliant, dumpster diving. Damon will earn $5.25…
Buy one member of the 2004 Red Sox, get one free.
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Comcast SportsNet Bay Area presents 'A Day in the... →
Excerpts from A Day in the Life with Tim Lincecum:
On moving back to his hometown: “Friends and family were part of the decision. I would always come back on the holidays…It’s good to come back to where I once was before playing baseball.”
On raising the Seattle Seahawks’ 12th Man Flag: “It was spine-tingling. You can tell that the 12th Man is a big part of their persona. There’s that extra...
Looking forward to listening to Dave Flemming at 12:35pm on MLB Network Radio on XM, but I’ll be sure to turn it off before 1:05 when Mat Latos is scheduled to be on. Maybe he’ll whine about mercenaries some more.
“Breaking news: #SFGiants just closed deal with Jeff Suppan, who’ll make $1 mil...”
– Mychael Urban
Prepare to watch the tenth starter at best, everyone!
(via sfgiantsbay)
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I step away from the computer for an hour only to come back and find that the Giants are close to signing the 2011 version of Todd WeLOLemeyer.
EXCELLENT.
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ESPN to Televise 10 MLB Spring Training Games →
Out of ten spring training games, five feature either the Yankees or Red Sox (or both).
I give up.
Did I just use a black Sharpie to cover up the very obvious scuff marks on the toes of my shoes? Yes, yes, I did.
Call me inspired by Brian Wilson and his shoes that have too much awesome. Or call me too lazy to buy a new pair of shoes. YOUR CHOICE.
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Giants Fan Fest →
The Giants have put up a list of the players tentatively scheduled to appear at this year’s Fan Fest. Looks like the whole gang will be there … except for Aaron Rowand.
Why do I keep forgetting that Miguel Tejada is on the team now?
It’s FP Santangelo’s final Sportsphone on KNBR tonight.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITHOUT HIM? DID YOU KNOW HE USED TO PLAY BASEBALL? FP SANTANGELO WAS A BASEBALL PLAYER. HE ALSO MANAGED IN THE MINOR LEAGUES FOR A MONTH OR SOMETHING. HE PLAYED BASEBALL.
I am kind of curious to see who KNBR picks to replace him though. Not that I’ll listen regularly, because KNBR callers...
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Prospect Watch: Baseball's Top 10 first basemen →
Brandon Belt: Third best first base prospect AT BEST.
Arbitration Deals: A Summary
Cody Ross: Yay! Jonathan Sanchez: Yay! The man formerly known as Jairo Garcia: Sure! Ramon Ramirez: Oh.
As exciting as all of this is, I NEED BASEBALL NOW.
And coffee.
But baseball is more exciting than me getting a cup of coffee.
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Giants' rotation would be hard to crack →
While I do worry a little bit about the lack of pitching depth in the Giants’ minor league system at the moment, I have to admit that this is a really nice problem to have. No possible opening in the starting rotation until 2013? A rotation already filled with five reliable pitchers? No Todd WeLOLemeyers in the bunch? Yeah, I can handle that.
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Russell Martin blames ‘distractions’ for his poor... →
Courtesy of Hardball Talk, Russell Martin, of the Suck it, Russell Martins, basically says he hasn’t been trying very hard and he hasn’t been playing well, because he was distracted. Gosh, I hope New York won’t be totally distracting, too! Except I totally hope it’s “distracting.”
More importantly, Russell Martin is only 28? Seriously?
And no post about...
