Fear not, loyal Dodgers fans! The off-day afternoon is not wasted, as all four NL West rivals are in play today:
First up has the second-place Rockies @ Nationals, Aaron Cook (0-1, 5.56) vs. Craig Stammen (0-0, 15.63). We all know how this will end up, though on paper it looks like a duel of .500 teams. 4:05p first pitch.
Next up we've go the last-place Diamondbacks' Rodrigo Lopez (1-0, 4.09) hosting our good friend Brad Penny (1-0, 0.64) and the Cardinals. Plus, this game is the AtBat.TV free game of the day, meaning that iPhone At Bat 2010 customers can follow this game live! 6:40p first pitch.
Finally, still trying to catch their breath after getting the dagger from Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers yesterday, the Giants and Matt Cain (0-0, 4.26) visit the Padres and Clayton "I'm Not Kershaw" Richard (0-2, 4.38). Can the Giants even muster any semblance of energy at all, after such a brutal, season-killing, hope-destroying, guts-ripped-out defeat yesterday, marking the Giants' first (and not last!) series loss of 2010? 7:05p first pitch.
138 comments:
Sweet! I was getting too much work done this afternoon.
I love the enthusiasm for an off day!
I hear Stammen has a pistol of a fastball.
For those of you who have iPhone and travel to EU or are planning to:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/19/lonely-planet-giving-away-free-iphone-guides-in-honor-of-eyjafja/
Free Lonely Planet apps for EU several cities.
[I don't have any connection to any of this...just passing along info. I just snagged a bunch of these for future use.]
He's really beginning to blossom, isn't he Josh?
Here we go, pollen out the puns again...
Yeah, you guys go petal your puns somewhere else.
I find your puns a-pollen.
Or else I'm gonna leaf.
Who are we rooting for today?
From where do all these puns stem?
Josh planted the seed.
We clearly have no stigma as to the depths of our humor.
Sorry, buds.
Ovary sad do I feel that I'm even participating on this nonsense.
I dunno, Sax. I thought you rose to the occasion.
Sax, we thought you were our frond.
Nats up 3-1 on Rox early. Not mulch going on yet w Cubs/Mutts.
Botany extra Dodgers tickets these days?
If the puns stopped, I'm fairly sure weed all be dismayed.
Nats up 5-2 in the 6th. Go Nats!
I'd help, but I don't know how you guys could compost so many pun-filled comments. You guys bloom me away.
It moss be the wit.
I'm not lichen where this is going
Just don't boo, 'K?
Nats win! Meaning: Rox lose!
Go Nats!!!!!! Anything to ruin Jim Tracy's day makes for a good day in our home.
Bad Penny gives up a couple of early runs. Dbags up 2-0 on Other Hated Ones.
Who do we root for? Arizona or Penny? It's so hard to choose!
i am almost rooting for the DBacks. I f'n hate the Cardinals with a passion. I know the DBacks don't have enough to contend this year....I've damn near convinced myself
@MLASF
Whomever is playing the Cardinals.
Pods up 1-0 on Jints.
^ Or, what SSS said ^
Im not sure if its just the TV but Kings fans are rockin' it at staples tonight.
GOAL!!!!
Um. Go Padres. Ick. I hope this game goes 20 innings.
This thread has been deflowered.
Reason # 73 I hate the Cardinals. Mike Shannon. Every pitch that results in a strike, either called or swung at, he says "STEEE RIKE". Makes me want to jab sharp crap in my eye. Wow1 I feel better now.
Tied, 1-1. Could be worse.
kings are dropping like flies. Very physical period.
2-1!!!!!
kings being more aggressive on offense in the second so far and its paying off.
Ohhhhh i think LUO's hurt too.
Damn, I knew I shouldn't have switched to House.
oh shit, padres pitcher just went deep off cain on an 8 pitch at bat.
gameday said in play no outs then later it posted it as a HR, weird.
NVM gameday error. it was a double to the deepest part of the park.
3-1 WOOOOOO!!!
HOLY SHIT!!!! 4-1!!!!
bye bye Luo!!
IPhone injury. Dropped it on the way off the bart. Now the sound goes down automatically. Oh well off to the istore cause iidoit.
Oh cool Kings are winning. Oh crap not by as much as two seconds ago.
Still a two-goal lead.
When I tuned in again Kings had four times as many goals. Now they only have twice as many.
I'll switch away in hopes of Kings scoring more.
@ Paul - sucks about your iPhone. iFail?
@SSS- don't stop the hate!
Kyle Blanks tripled to left according to Fan Graph box score on my phone. Not a HR. GamdeDay hiccup or was Steiner operating GameDay?
velez strikes out with two on and two outs, bot 7 pads up 2-1
what the hell kings.
This is getting a little too close for comfort.
maybe a home ice call here?
For you hockey fans out there who also have iPhone (sorry Paul!): Just snagged an official NHL app for free that is a pretty good rendition of a sports app. Like basketball apps do (on phone or web), there is a visual representation of the playing surface to track shots, goals, hits, etc. The cool thing is that it also tracks fights! I should watch this sport more.
Doth mine eyes deceive me? Was the goal just taken away?
No goal!
OHHHHHHHH wow
major momentum shift.
looked good to me, but who am i to argue with a Canadian.
well that didnt last long.
kings falling apart.
Well that was pointless.
Cards 3-2 over Dbags in the 8th.
INSURANCE!!!
goal!! was that deflected?
Suck it, Canada!
Also, one of your hockey teams is losing.
KINGS!!!
Dammit. You guys have me watching hockey.
Did he just call that shot a knuckleball?
looked like a curveball.
I know, Josh! It's weird, isn't it? (Us watching, not the sport.)
Are we going to have to hear a 35 minute explanation of how there is a special glove and that someone had to borrow it from Tom Candiotti and so forth?
i cant which Guillermo Mota i hate more, the good giants version or the bad dodgers version.
*i cant tell
hopefully heath bell wont continue his trend of blowing saves when i need him to win.
Well at least all systems go besides the sound issues on the phone. It is like the Millennium Falcon with no hyper drive.
You could totally make up a tragic story just with the ring advertisements.
Rink. iPhone is not Canadian.
BTW has anyone seen the new iphone pics on gizmodo. the new model looks very, very nice.
Damn, Nic, you jinxed it re Taco Bell!
Not as nice as your avatar looks, Nic.
I swear Heath Bell tanks it.
He literally blows a save everytime i need him to win, never fails.
Has anyone checked out the Yahoo MLB main page? It's talking about the giants, and i don't know if this is intended or not, but one of the sub-headlines under the Brian Wilson story is "Lincecum is smoking"
@Nic re: new iPhone
Yep, saw that. I would jump on that like Manny on a Sergio Romero meatball.
maybe the pads will just win on a walk off now.
crap 6on4 now. hold on kings!
Crap. Two-man advantage for Canucks.
kings up 2-1 baby!
KINGS TAKE THE LEAD!!!
Runner on second, one out. Finish it up, Pads.
Manny says Romo's meatball tastes like chicken.
Kings win!!!
dammit! DP
Damnit, Cabrera.
snakes lose.
Giants can kiss my aster. Sorry i didn't get to use that earlier.
Let's just turn this into an Apple FanBoy blog:
"Apple Formally Asks For iPhone Back, Gizmodo Returns It"
So this confirms that it is the phone. Wonder what that will mean for the timing on this thing? Will it move it up?
DB, not sure about that. It all depends on the production im guessing.
I really like the front facing camera, finally.
Props to MLB Network - they just did a breaking update of the Gnats/Pods game during their Quick Pitch telecast. I thought for sure I was watching a taped loop.
Giants lose!!!!
are you serious? i think gameday is broken it says MSB just homered.
Wooo woo! Go Pads! Hell yeah!
It's nightshades for Gnats! Pods win!
alright i gotta go read MCC, this will be great.
He he he Krukow just said Eickstien was looking for something to yank. He he he.
I'd go to MCC, but you have to sift through 15 threads just to get to the end of the game.
Way out west,
(Way out west)
There's a story told,
(There's a story told)
'Bout a second baseman,
Tiny and bold!
(Tiny and bold)
MCC is great right now.
Dammit. Lost my S again.
I'll find the link, MLASF.
HAW, JOSH!!! Nice one!
http://tinyurl.com/y3qdofd
towards the middle. Giants fan tears are the best.
No need. Found it.
Should I be ashamed that rampant use of "fuck" is like chocolate covered chocolate-chip cookies to me?
116 comments on an off night...nice work, dudes (and dudettes where appropriate).
One astute MCC observer noted:
"Lol, Blanks is so fucking tall"
We just don't have that level of analysis here.
Sure are a lot of their commenters who blame the size of the stadium for their woes.
To wit:
"big park is big"
Finally found it...the thread where Eckstein hits the walkoff.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/4/19/1431961/more-baseball-thread
Whoops, forgot to refresh the page. Sorry.
By "big park" you mean Bruce Bochy, right? 'Cause they blame him for everything.
For fans of a team in the city where there are arguable more educated citizens than almost any other city in the US, there sure are a lot of meaningless "FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK" and "O H G O D D A M M I T" type of posts. I mean, I'm all for outbreaks of profanity, but we're also just as apt to quote Euripides or Homer Simpson.
To be fair i really hate Eckstein when we play him too. Dude never have a short at bat. Well unless its a walk off homer.
I hate what he does to us, but don't hate him as a person.
There's also this gem:
"Dear David Eckstein:
I would like to cordially invite you, good sir, to die in a bizarre gardening accident while choking on somebody else’s vomit. And then spontaneously combust.
by jcb9 on Apr 19, 2010 9:59 PM PDT"
Besides the cheap Spinal Tap rip-off, what sort of lame comment is this?
I need to stop. But I can't.
"Heartbreaker!
Went downstairs to see what my mom was making. Come back upstairs hear the pads announcer with a big win for san deigo I immediatly shit my pants. Wow waste of time!
by waffles"
Dude lives with his mom and poops in his pants! Haw!
the Twittersphere is reporting a MLB 50 suspension is going through appeals process right now and could be released any day.
Well it says 50 games so that would rule out manny.
This is nice:
"I couldnt watch the game. What did Velez do?"
another poster answers:
"He shit on his own face."
Why can't I excel in this sort of witty rejoinder?
Mom where is the meatloaf?!?
@NicJ re PED suspension
I kept seeing that all afternoon, too, but nothing ever came of it.
Good point re it not being Manny if it's a 50-game.
Guesses, anyone? I say David Eckstein.
Eugenio Velez?
Russ Ortiz???
Hopefully not Jmart, with that weight gain in the off season.
Lincecum?
Oh, please let it be Timmeh.
If Timmeh tests positive for anything, it won't be PEDs.
My money's on the Panda.
Dick Enberg calls Padres games now?
Weird.
Yeah, Enberg started this season after Matt Vasgersian left for MLB last season and the Pads were left with no one good.
It adds a touch of class to the games down here.
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