Clayton Kershaw (-, -.--) vs. Tim Lincecum (-, -.--).
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IT'S TIME FOR DODGER BASEBALL!
No really — it's time for Dodger baseball. Wake up! Opening Day is here! That hangover you've been nursing since November 1 of last year is over. No more wallowing in self-pity, Dodger fans — it's a new season, spring training stats don't count for squat, and there are Doyer Dogs to be had.
What's that? Loney Fan is demanding the mike? Take it away!
I was talking with two friends yesterday. One of them a SoSG follower and one of them a Red Sox fan. We all noticed that this time of year, Dodger fans become the most cynical, pessimistic group around. Our Red Sox following friend may have a lot more going for him at the start of the 2011 season, but I have seen him this elated every year. My Dodger friend and I were going through the annals of SoSG history to research this phenomenon and came across one of our favorite, must uplifting videos posted on SoSG and we thought we would share.So if you are feeling down and worried about the Dodgers chances this year remember that we have been worried the last three years at this time and watch this video.
Opening Day? Check.
Vin Scully? Check.
Good-luck boobies? Check. The very first time that joke has been made on the internet!
GO BLUE!
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I'm afraid I just blue myself.
Furcal - SS
Gwynn, Jr. - LF
Ethier - RF
Kemp - CF
Loney - 1B
Uribe - 3B
Barajas - C
Carroll - 2B
Kershaw - P
per Dodgers Twitter feed
Oh, and:
Vin - Radio Booth
All is right in the world.
Jason leading off with the Opening Day lineup!
Just making up for my pitiful showing in SoSG MM.
Feelin' the Scooby-Doo today.
LET'S DO THIS~!
Play ball!
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I'm so excited I can barely focus on getting through the day.
I can't get behind this game being on ESPN, but at least Vinny will be on the radio for 6 innings. I don't even give a shit if it doesn't remotely sync up.
It won't. That shit never works.
FUCK FRISCO
If Vinny's call is behind the action on tv, try watching the non HD channel and see if it's any closer. I know with my cable at least, the HD channel is usually a couple seconds faster.
Isn't radio usually a few tics ahead of the idiot box?
Yeah, so you can't even fiddle with your DVR to sync it up.
BASTARDS
I blame Oakland.
For anybody who is there (and gets reasonable cell reception), can you report on the the pitiful banner?
Ryan Franklin is in mid-season form
VSIMH says the banner is "small."
So the NL Central
Let's do this!!!!!
Maybe we should figure out how much all the Giants fans pooled together for their silly banners and match it in our own pool, then donate the money to a worthy (read: real) charity, then advertise the fuck out of what we did to make them look like the pathetic bunch of loser beat-down assholes they really are???
you know this would get play on web sites across the country and be a source of pride (and good karma for a good cause) for years to come...
...and make them look bad.
just to be redundant.
That's a great idea, PPR. Really stick it to those arrogant sumbitches.
Oh, and help out a worthy cause of course.
ya know, it's gotta be doable...
i recall reading a while back that numbers like $8k were being thrown around. i figure a paypal kind of interface for people to pay through... this is really quite possible.
Epale everyone!
I like Opening Day more than my birthday, Christmas and New Year TOGETHER.
I'm my most optimistic today even if Gwynn Jr. is our left fielder ;) and dying to listen to Vin Scully.
I've slept 6 hours in two days but I can't because I'm sooo excited.
LET'S GO DODGERS and bring on the snark!
This looks to be the website that pooled the money for the Gnats.
http://fysuinc.eventbrite.com/
I love that one of their donation amounts is titled "Cream and Clear". They cheated and they know it.
Epale, Karina!
The best fans in baseball have left Busch Stadium in droves
and I am so happy that Ryan Theriot is no longer a Dodger. He just gagged the game for the Cards
and howdy, karina!
@Quadsevens it shows how uninspiring they are,if they wanted to honor the franchise, why not naming it "the shot heard 'round the world" (appropriate for the event) or called something after Mel Ott or Willie Mays. That's why I suspect that initiative was mainly supported by bandwagon fans
Epale, Orel!
What's up, Fred's Brim!
:)
http://bit.ly/hJX65D
Hank should be deported from SoCal
Gonna switch it up for the special day
I click on the tube,change the channel to prime ticket and the first words out of O'Neill is "the world champion....".
Defcon 1
Somebody needs to get a picture of Zito in a neckbrack!
neckbrace i mean
"This year, for the first time in the half-century of this West Coast rivalry, Yu and the rest of Giants Nation -- yes, it really qualifies as a nation now -- need not shrink away in silence."
WHAT?
10 MINUTES!
'Dre Day
are you ready for Dodgers baseball?
Hate Status:10
@ karina
Hells Yeah!
I already have the tube on mute
Whoa. The new MLB gameday is awesome!
Though they also have "badges" people can earn for each team? Like XBOX accomplishments, I suppose.
Today's include:
- Tony Gwynn double
- James Loney homerun
- Rafael Furcal single
I only see one of those happening.
Bring it!
I'm trying to watch via my MLB.tv account, and it's telling me I'm blacked out. I thought they did it by IP address, and I clearly no longer live in Los Angeles. What gives?
Strike
STRIKE ONE!
go Kershaw!
@Erin: nationally televised games are blacked out on MLB.tv
sit down!
First strikeout of the season.
@Dr Geek re Gameday, indeed WHOA
@karina: I feel like Rod Barajas!
first error of the season
I watched the Yankees game on MLB.tv today. Wasn't that also on ESPN?
Furcal, I expect this level of play from the Diamondbacks. But not you.
@ Erin: Muy extraño...
@ Erin
Sign in as Katie. Maybe that will work.
Struck out the side. Fuck Yeah!
give it up for Kershaw, he just achieved his strike out number 500 in the big leagues, striking 3 Giants in Opening Day.
Kershaw = Ace
@Dr Geek hahahaha, I'd rather feel like Scioscia or my son ;)
Carroll looks like a frog.
I want to keep Dre :(
As long as the Giants don't swing at our heads with a bat, we're groovy.
booooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
WASH YER HAIR TIMMEH!
it's so nice to watch a large crowd in Dodger Blue
Oh, it is ON! Home in time for the bottom of the first!
Radio is pretty far ahead of the TV. Oh well.
Epale Everyone and Happy Opening Day!!
I'm home from work and ready to HATE me sum gnats!!
Nothing like spending the first inning of the first game of the season on hold with MLB.tv.
In India, might I add. So much for the national pastime.
@Josh - yeah me too, about 3 seconds. Usually it's the other way around.
Fucking Loney.
Not so much for the plate discipline this year, are we?
Way to go, James.
this guy makes my hateHateHATE go to 11
@Spank @Mr C when you are a power bat, you can get away if you don't have patience.
oh wait...
;)
And that's on a scale of 1 to 5
Holy shit Gameday looks great.
Brandon belted a single? Blergh.
Sit down Panda!
I don't care how much weight you lose, Fatso. You'll always be a fatso to me.
KKKK
new Gameday = OMG
Jesus.
URIBE YOU URINE
@Orel: That's what I'm sayin'!
About gameday, not uribe.
Aw fuck.
Gnat Conpiracy! Just saying
you should be ashamed, Uribe
of course...Barajas singles
And there are the State Farm ads that we questioned in MLB The Show in the video game post a few weeks back. They look bigger in the game than in the real stadium though
When did the Giants sign the Wicked Witch of the West?
Oh wait, that's Timmeh.
that was 100!
In Rod We Trust
OF COURSE that was followed with a hit.
Fans following the organ with "Giantssuck!"
this ump likes the right side of the plate more than the left
You would think Carroll would have a high average with them eyes
Well, at least we're getting hits off the Witch.
The sad thing is, Kershaw has not shaved since last season.
#peachfuzz
@Czar in the other hand, Kershaw looks dominating
is it only me or anyone else can't just stop playing with the Gameday features?
So, I finally got the game up on my computer.
And, man, I hate that I live so far away from Dodger Stadium now. With no hopes of getting back there anytime soon. So homesick now.
What I'm saying is, the Dodgers need to win. For me.
VINNY!
VIN!!!!!!!!!!!!1
peachfuzz!
a salam alaikum
HONKY TONK MAN PHOTO BEHIND VIN!!!
Is timmeh's face looking horsier with the added length to the hair or is it me?
KKKKKK
Zambia's getting mad money from Kid K tonight.
looking good, Mr Scully. Can you do the next Opening Day too?
Kershaw's dealing.
It is sooo damn nice to not have to listen to Miller and Morgan
Gwynn FTW!
Yeah Junior!!!
shut up us, Gwynn!
That made FB smile.
Hate level still at 11
Giggle level at 9.5
I always liked Gwynn jr.
Uribe should go to Gwynn's guy to get his brakes looked at.
that was no swing
Earn your money,Dre.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
@Karen
AMEN to that!
Who does Kemp's crazy circus music?
that is the most weaksauce soul patch I have ever seen
you gotta do something sometime, James
@Fred's Brim he will, like the king he is
ARGH
Keep up the good work,Loney.
I hope Loney is enjoying his last opening day as a dodger.
Vin Scully is trending worldwide on Twitter.
I want to make sweet,sweet love to Kershaws beard.
KKKKKKKK
Straight dealing.
Reporters in the dugout during the game.. Hmmm.
Damn, that had some giddyup.
Urine!
Has Barajas slimmed down a little too? I would says he's down to 286 at least
Now I REALLLLLY want to set fire to Brian Wilson's beard.
That pube beard is horrendous, worse than that pube beard they glued to that guy's face in Jackass
I heard an awesome story from Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez a couple of seasons ago. They were talking about Sid Fernandez reporting to camp one year in the late 80s having lost 20-30 pounds in the offseason. He said he was on a mustard and potato diet. Apparently that's all he ate for 5 months and it worked. Sort of. When he went to the mound, they said his fastball, normally in the mid-90s, could barely break a pane of glass. Davey Johnson yelled at him to eat some steaks. After a while the weight and fastball were back
@FB, I think you're right...he does look like he's lost some of his hair.
It's good seeing Davey in a Dodger uni again
Hillman could be Bochy's stunt double!
agreed, Karen!
That's right, buddy, you picked a ball off the ground before anyone else! Way to go! Let the crowd applause your achievement!
Squibs coming back to haunt us.
Our goddamn fielding is going to pube my beard this season
This doesn't look too good.
Good ol' Loney
Great story, FB! Wonder if we can start a Mustard & Potato Society.
How is TV behind even Gameday? Did they budget in extra dump time just in case somebody (Dusty) gets naked and runs on the field to wash Lincecum's hair?
Damn, so close to turning two.
Pandas got the Mr. T look working
@Orel, my friend and I have been threatening to do it for a while now, even just for a week or two. I don't like potatoes enough.
How much must the Giants management hate Barry Zito :D
Whew.
Charley is in midseason form as well.
Sheesh.
His reaction on that last ball was as if he was waiting to see if was going to go foul, then I hear "second base"
This announce team is odd. Valentine sounds like Hershiser doing a Kermit the Frog impression.
I love Luis Guzman
I can't help but laugh everytime i see Luis Guzman.
Dodgers will put 3 on the board this inning.
No way, FB. I couldn't even do that for a day. Unless French fries were allowed.
If we can't beat Zito after he's been in a car accident, then we deserve nothing.
What's up with the padding in front of Mary Hart? Is that at her request?
@Orel, I think it was just baked potatoes. I am kind of Irish but not that Irish
what Mary wants, Mary gets
Poop.
Ramen and water.
aaahhhOOOOOOOO Werewolves Of London!
UJTD!
turnin' two!
I still say that is Bud Selig sitting left of the camera in dark glasses
I HATE Buster Posey
even with the hits, they are all grounders
I <3 Loney!
I love the face that Pat Burrell just made.
Dammit Steiner! It's not a "high fly ball" if it doesn't make it past the bases
@MLASC he was trying to remember if he took his penicillin today
Ned looks like the guy in the Michael Jordan/Hitler mustache/bacon neck commercial
Timmeh is settling in, isn't he?
Matty should have mashed that last one
nice work, Matty
Kemp looks good early on.
I would have already been kicked out of Dodger Stadium. Especially after Dre's last at bat.
Um...yay!!!
WOOP - we're in business!
After three plate appearances, Kemp has a BA and OBP of 1.000.
RANCHO ARDIENDO!
Uribe took one for the team there.
RANCHO ARDIENDO
intentional walk/hbp?
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