*THE 2010, 2012, and 2014 WORLD SERIES CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS*

Wobbie

just reading about timmy's hip surgery. explains why he kept stumbling off the mound in cincy.

Wobbie

god fucking dammit! the d bags????? really? fuck.

fuck the d**gers and cubs, too.

PJ_ROCKS

imalive said:

god fucking dammit! the d bags????? really? fuck.

fuck the d**gers and cubs, too.

HesCalledDyer

imalive said:

god fucking dammit! the d bags????? really? fuck.

fuck the d**gers and cubs, too.

It's an odd year anyway...

Amongst the Ani

Great article on ESPN talking about how Giants are set for another run in 2016. The rise of Duffy and Heston. Beadle should be on the major league roster for 2016. Pence will be healthy, panik also. Rotation right now is MadBum, Heston, Peavy and then hopefully beadle. We should have close to 70 million in opened up salary to chase price or Greinke and an outfield upgrade. The Giants gave up on Crick as a starter and moved him to pen. He hits 100 regularly and has been devastating in that role. 2016 should be good.

HesCalledDyer

If everyone stays healthy & the young guys continue to produce there's no reason they won't be a threat next season. Heck, they've remained competitive this entire season despite the plethora of injuries.

Wobbie

Amongst the Ani said:

Great article on ESPN talking about how Giants are set for another run in 2016. The rise of Duffy and Heston. Beadle should be on the major league roster for 2016. Pence will be healthy, panik also. Rotation right now is MadBum, Heston, Peavy and then hopefully beadle. We should have close to 70 million in opened up salary to chase price or Greinke and an outfield upgrade. The Giants gave up on Crick as a starter and moved him to pen. He hits 100 regularly and has been devastating in that role. 2016 should be good.

I'd have a hard time rooting for that cross-eyed motherfucker Grienke.

Leake's start yesterday makes me wonder......he was kicking ass in Cincy. Course, so was Cueto. funny how easy it is to pitch when the team has no expectaions. see: benitez, a. marlins.

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Amongst the Ani

Dodgers won't win shit.

Enkidu

Amongst the Ani said:

Dodgers won't win shit.

Agree. I'll happily wear my Even Years t-shirt today.

Amongst the Ani

Evans said there will be a payroll increase next season and they will spend the money on pitching. When asked if he wants to keep up with the Dodgers pitching he said he wants to surpase them. Leake and Giants have both said they like each other but Leake wants to test FA and Arizona is the favorite to sign him (he lives here). I see a Price type signing seeing as they will have cash (estimated 70 million) and want top end pitching.

Wobbie

I was never too high on Chase Headly. Very glad we didn't throw $50m at him.

Amongst the Ani

Imagine if we had kept Sandoval. We would never have gotten to see Duffy crush it. Parker will be the next Giants young guy to bust on the scene next year.

Fuck the D*gers. They can keep hanging those division flags. We will keep looking at out world series flags. Should go troll there thread by posting 1988 over and over again.

Wobbie

They can have the division; we'll take the rings.

Did you happen to see the commercial where affedt tells the little kid, "we're just like everyone else; we put our rings on one finger at a time"?

wish I could find it.

Amongst the Ani

Here you go Rob. Scroll down the one called staying humble.

csnbayarea.com/giants/giants-gear-2015-season-we-are-giant-ads

Wobbie

why can't I embed this fucker??

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/82888598/v53424583

Amongst the Ani

Its not on youtube. I checked.

Enkidu

imalive said:

why can't I embed this fucker??

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/82888598/v53424583

I'll miss Affeldt.

Wobbie

did either of my two fellow Giants fans ever read dodgerblues.com? sadly, the guy isn't doing it anymore. still, I suggest you poke around the site. the guy cracked me up. kinda reminds me of F'me.

http://dodgerblues.com/content/news.html

October 30, 2011
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you...

Ten years ago, Eugenio Velez had just signed his first professional contract and the whole world was for his taking. Ten years ago, the only Frank McCourt anyone knew was a guy who wrote books (you know, those things made of paper that people used to read). And ten years ago today, I turned on my computer, watched some internet porn, and launched Dodger Blues.

The Dodgers were fresh off a 3rd place finish in 2001, a season that saw guys like Jeff Reboulet, Tim Bogar, and Mike Trombley don the Dodgers uniform. I had just started graduate school, and somehow found myself with an abundance of time. So obviously Jeff Reboulet + free time = Dodger Blues. If I recall correctly, I had registered the domain name about a year earlier, not exactly sure what my plans were. Even once I started building the site, I don’t think I knew what my plans were. But up it went, the first post a horribly boring five-sentence blurb about Gary Sheffield wanting to stay with the Dodgers. The posts quickly heated up in the weeks following, with some genuine anger toward Craig Counsell, Dan Evans, and Omar Daal. I was finding my zone. And people were starting to find my site.

Among those was Ben Platt, who at the time was the Dodgers.com moderator… or writer… I don’t really remember who he was, but he sent me an email telling me to stop stealing photos from Dodgers.com. So I started drawing pictures instead. While I produced a couple of masterpieces, including this Kim Ng classic, the sketching wasn’t for me. And so began the Photoshopped accompaniments to each post. To be honest, the Photoshopping ended up taking its toll on me. It was one thing to spend three hours watching a game and another hour commenting on it, but trying to conceive and create a new graphic each night became a pain in my ass. But I did it anyway because I love you. (Not you with the tattoos on your gut—I’m talking about you with the awesome rack and fantastic legs… because in my mind everyone who read Dodger Blues was a hot model.)

So the years went by, the Dodgers failed season after season, and the site thrived… as long as I was willing to watch every game, immediately summarize it, filter the fan forum, maintain features such as look-alikes and quotes, create polls, send out t-shirts, answer emails, and spend increasingly more money to boost the site’s bandwidth. Eventually, with a demanding day job and family commitments, I wasn’t willing nor able to do all of those things. So I stopped writing after every game. Then I stopped updating the look-alikes. Then I closed the fan forum. Then I stopped selling shirts. And by then the buzz about the Dodgers had nothing to do with the Dodgers—only the McCourts. Not interested in blogging about divorce or bankruptcy, I basically let the site go. It’s like a dog you don’t feed. You still see it around, and it looks like shit, and occasionally you think about how cool the dog was when you fed it, but it’s a bad economy and you’ve had to stop buying dog food, and you’ve realized that if you don’t feed it, it doesn’t poop, and that gives you more time to poop yourself, or to watch Hangover for the thirtieth time. Where the fuck was I going with that? Oh, who cares.

Anyway, I figured I’d hit the site’s highlights over the last ten years. And by highlights I mean lowlights. And by lowlights I mean whatever happens to come to mind in the next ten minutes as I write this.

The Gibson clock. The site’s hallmark right from the start, the Gibson clock keeps ticking away. Every time something positive would happen (Gagne’s save streak, Finley’s grand slam, Eric Karros getting a haircut), people would call for the clock to be reset. Right now, I think we all know what the next great Dodger moment will be.

The first Cease and Desist. In 2002 I was sent a Cease and Desist order from the lawyers for Major League Baseball, telling me that my logo (which at the time featured an LA hat) created “consumer confusion.” Yes, I can see how a picture of Jim Tracy with a cock on his head would make it seem like this was the official Dodgers web site. Fuckholes.

The early shirts. After the Cease and Desist, I changed the logo and designed shirts—produced and sold on CafePress.com. After about six months I couldn’t log in to my account. Turns out it was MLB again, this time the organization that monitors trademark infringement. I was selling shirts that used the name “Dodger”. Frankly, I think that’s a word in the dictionary, but apparently there was no room for debate. Upon request from MLB, CafePress put the kibosh on my shirts, and that was that until I eventually changed the logo again.

The assholes. Of the moment, to be exact. If you’re ever looking for a great trivia question, go with this one: Who was the very first Dodger Blues Asshole of the Moment? Answer: Hiram Bocachica. (And you can be sure it wasn’t Hiram’s only appearance as Asshole of the Moment.) Used as a quick way to humiliate someone for any sort of mistake or offense, the feature was a fan favorite—to the point where I'd get emails from people begging to be the Asshole of the Moment. More than 1,100 assholes were named over the last ten years. Some of the most frequent assholes: Jim Tracy, Frank McCourt, J.D. Drew, Joe Morgan, Kevin Malone, and Bill Plaschke. (If you ever have about 4 hours to blow, the Assholes are actually a great read. Hint: switch from year to year at the bottom of the page.)

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Wobbie

just now, Joe Maddon said he hadn't seen anything like Murphy since Bonds in the 2002 WS.

unlike Murphy, tho, Bonds was walked 13 times; SEVEN intentionally.

Bonds HOF.

PJ_ROCKS

good ol' days

Amongst the Ani

Hahahahahahaha. Mattingly left the Dodgers. They offered him an extension and he said no thank you and asked for his release from the last year.

Wobbie

not happy to see the Giants release Aoki. are we hiding a leadoff man I don't know about? WTF?

really hope the d**gers hire gibson.

Amongst the Ani

If you didnt read Olneys lasy article, Giants are now looking at Chris Davis. Choice would be Davis in LF (I like that idea better than Upton) or moving Belt for pitching and Davis at first. Davis would play OF when Posey is at 1st.

Wobbie

Davis? OK

JWPearl

no sport passion and desires in action here outside my own home..
call me boring

Amongst the Ani

If you want me to.................................

Boring.

JWPearl

legend in your own lunch box lol..