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RE: OT: SF Giants Trivia - Phogge - 07-13-2020

I looked. Never would have got it. Nickname when he played was Maxie. Why?


RE: OT: SF Giants Trivia - BobK - 07-13-2020

(07-13-2020, 10:55 AM)Phogge Wrote:  I looked. Never would have got it. Nickname when he played was Maxie. Why?

His father's name who pitched for the Giants, including the Miricle Season of 1951.


RE: OT: SF Giants Trivia - Phogge - 07-13-2020

Hal Lanier, good SS not much of a hitter.


Thank you Hunter Pence - lex24 - 08-23-2020

Giants let him loose today (DFA). It was time.  Right move, no question.  Great Giant. Forever thankful. He will always have a place in the organization if he wants it.  I could see him managing someday.


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - BobK - 08-23-2020

A very classy guy.


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - cardcrimson - 08-23-2020

Agree and agree. Wish him the best and look forward to his future success, whatever it may be. Thanks Hunter.

(Though, I'd be surprised if he reads the Cardboard)


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - Phogge - 08-23-2020

Hunter does. Has four or five aliases. Longtime Stanford football fan. Favorite player was Jerry Waldvogel.


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - BobK - 08-23-2020

Lol. Too funny


lex24 - lex24 - 08-23-2020

(08-23-2020, 07:43 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Hunter does. Has four or five aliases. Longtime Stanford football fan. Favorite player was Jerry Waldvogel.

Always thought he got hosed. Christensen gave him the Michigan game. Toughest of the three opponents.


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - Giants - 08-24-2020

(08-23-2020, 02:06 PM)lex24 Wrote:  Giants let him loose today (DFA). It was time.  Right move, no question.  Great Giant. Forever thankful. He will always have a place in the organization if he wants it.  I could see him managing someday.

In 2022, of all the players attending the 2012 WS reunion, I think Pence will receive the loudest cheer (and deservedly so).


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - Embo - 08-24-2020

(08-24-2020, 09:11 AM)Giants Wrote:  In 2022, of all the players attending the 2012 WS reunion, I think Pence will receive the loudest cheer (and deservedly so).

He'll never have to pay for a drink in SF again.  And I'd be happy to stand in line for the opportunity to take care of his tab.

And don't forget this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2po0ElT44CY


RE: Thank you Hunter Pence - Mick - 08-24-2020

(08-24-2020, 12:16 PM)Embo Wrote:  
(08-24-2020, 09:11 AM)Giants Wrote:  In 2022, of all the players attending the 2012 WS reunion, I think Pence will receive the loudest cheer (and deservedly so).

He'll never have to pay for a drink in SF again.  And I'd be happy to stand in line for the opportunity to take care of his tab.

And don't forget this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2po0ElT44CY

Hunter Pence as Bluto.  Tim Lincecum as Boon.  Buster Posey as Otter.  Brandon Belt as D-Day.  Madison Bumgarner eerily accurate vocal rendition of Stork.  Affeldt as Pinto.  And Brandon Crawford as the brutally miscast Flounder.
 
And the original…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-xgd_eETE


The Giants Torture - BobK - 09-25-2020

Big big win tonight. Up 5-1 last inning and won 5-4.

Oh oh the Shark game 2

Brewers won their first game and trail in the 5th 5-0

Phillies Trail 6-4 they are batting in the 9th

Reds are still early


RE: The Giants Torture - old spanish trail - 09-25-2020

Shark has been surprisingly good so far. Gyros score one on a couple fielders choices.


RE: The Giants Torture - qwerty49 - 09-25-2020

One of the guys in the Athletic started to outline all the possibilities with just 4 games to go, but he also basically said the Giants control their destiny.  Win and you're in.


RE: The Giants Torture - BobK - 09-25-2020

Brewers split and phillies lose


RE: The Giants Torture - BobK - 09-25-2020

Reds win and for the Giants Flores with a three run HR


RE: The Giants Torture - BobK - 09-25-2020

Thanks Gabe, great thinking.


RE: The Giants Torture - teejers1 - 09-25-2020

(09-25-2020, 09:08 PM)BobK Wrote:  Reds win and for the Giants Flores with a three run HR

And then Kapler does what he has done far too often this season:  just make the idiotic decision (leaving pitcher in who can't find the strike zone).  Walk off 3-run dinger for San Diego in game 2 of double-header.  Seriously, I hope some reporter has the balls to ask him WTF he had Wandy warming up for in the last inning if not to face the lefty hitter who walked it off.  Of course, they won't.

Look, in one sense, the Giants and their paltry 3 hits didn't deserve to win, but it absolutely sucks when the manager just freaking makes the WORST decisions to hamper your team's ability to win.  That's 3 egregious last-inning decisions this year that led to Ls that you can attribute directly to Kapler.

I'm sure he's made lots of good decisions, and most decisions are of the "reasonable minds can differ" variety.  But watching Coonrad scuffle in the last inning (for second night in a row), AND you leave him in to serve up the game-loser.  Effing inexcusable.

P.S. The Padres starter had nasty stuff. Hope he is okay for the playoff run for the Padres. Giants caught a brobdingnagian break when he left the game.


RE: The Giants Torture - OutsiderFan - 09-26-2020

Does anyone want to face the Dodgers? It appears they really don’t. The Giants had the Rockies on the ropes and couldn’t finish. They had a 5-1 lead against Padres and almost blew it in 7th. Then they get walked off in their own park, blowing a 2-run lead.

The Phillies have dropped 4 of their last 5. The Brewers have lost 3 of their last 4. Meanwhile, the Marlins have clinched the #2 spot in the East. 

Giants basically need one more win for the opportunity to be slaughtered by the Dodgers. They have pissed away their shot at #7 and the Braves already. Cincy has locked that in.