Giants vs. Phillies -- NLCS IST

[metirish]

I just can't help but think he looks like Will Ferrell playing James Lipton......

[G-Fafif]

Towels up your arse Philadelphia!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Go, Henry Rollins in Wooly Willy drag!

[Fman99]

This is my favorite Brad Lidge.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ibanez sat down, Joanie-loves-Choochie weasels his way on via HBP, and Gload-- after making a loud liner of a strike two-- goes down swinging.

Dick Torino, for the ballgame.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

96 right down the pipe, past a Flailing Hawaiian. That's Sheriff Wooly Willy to you.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Fman99 wrote: Brian Wilson looks Reardon-esque out there with the beard.

Life-like hair.

[G-Fafif]

Brian Wilson at least as good as Woodrow tonight.

[Guest Edgy DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Fman99 wrote: Brian Wilson looks Reardon-esque out there with the beard. Life-like hair.

Someday I'm breaking into the UMDB and replacing their Jeff Reardon shot with that one.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My goons are on alert!

[G-Fafif]

Dan Shulman, ESPN Radio, just said some compare Jonathan Sanchez to Sid Fernandez. Nice to know we're sort of represented in the NLCS.

And by "we're," I'm willfully ignoring Brian Schneider and Wilson Valdez.

[G-Fafif]

Sure enough, Sanchez walks in a run. Somewhere El Sid is utterly unbothered.

[G-Fafif]

And Guillermo Mota -- he's up in the Giant pen. He comes in and I revert to neutrality in this series.

[Willets Point]

No offense, mental errors on the field....why did no one tell me the Mets were playing the Phillies tonight?

[Willets Point]

Cody Ross, NLCS MVP in the making.

[Frayed Knot]

It's amazing that networks think those in-dugout interviews help enrich their broadcasts and deliciously ironic when they miss a game-tying, no-hit breaking HR because of one.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: It's amazing that networks think those in-dugout interviews help enrich their broadcasts and deliciously ironic when they miss a game-tying, no-hit breaking HR because of one.

Just Fox, really.

[Frayed Knot]

TBS was doing those taped/between-inning chats too the other day, as does ESPN during their Sunday Night telecasts - although the purpose of that seems to be to show off how tight Joe Morgan is with whoever they're chatting with.
The bottom line is that those gab-fests are rarely if ever illuminating ["So, your guy looks to be throwing his fastball real good tonight" ... "Yeah, he's throwing his fastball read good"] but the powers at be seem to think they're indispensable to the point where if they wind up stepping on a big live moment so be it.





Things I just realized yesterday:
- Even with the longer series, Barry Zito was once again left off the SF roster for this round. Granted he was the 5th wheel on a team with their pitching but his season wasn't THAT bad and it seems to me he could come in useful if the staff gets in a spot, although I guess they felt like they needed more 'true' relievers and with the rate Bochy's going through his pen they're probably right.
- Cody Ross is one of those lefty throwing/righty swinging oddities.

[bmfc1]

These morons aren't even happy when they're winning:

[HahnSolo]

These morons aren't even happy when they're winning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4sYObMxN8k&feature=player_embedded#!

Oh, this is glorious. Some highlights:

- Douche in road Phils jersey asking to be punched in the face at :12. Sure enough, someone eventually obliges.

- Smartest guys in the vid are the two seen at :14, wearing their leather football helmets to the game.

- Love the guy at :25, who has apparently picked up his little girl and carried her closer to the fight, I guess to get a better view?

- Security guy with a grey white guy fro? Security guy with a grey white guy fro. (1:34)

[Willets Point]

Oh sure, like there's never a fight at a Mets game.

If you rabbithole though there's a great video of a Phillie phan puking on the phield. Uh, field.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Rowand and Renteria... and NO Sandoval?

C'mon, Big Head. Give a brother some FatPanda.

[G-Fafif]

Dan Shulman and Dave Campbell > Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Eff Cablevision. Eff Fox.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With 4 Ks and 2 baserunners allowed through 3, Matt Cain is Santa Cruzin'.

Unfortunately, so far, so is Ol' Two-Power... who's faced the minimum number of hitters through 3. That's right, he's got a no-hitter so far. No-hitters in the playoffs are rare, so it would be an acheivement for him to match his teammate's no-hitter with a no-hitter of his own.






No-hitter.

[Gwreck]

LWFS's work appears to have done the trick, as Edgar Renteria singles to lead off the bottom of the 4th.

[G-Fafif]

Rooting for a team that includes Pat Burrell, Cody Ross and Matt Cain. That team could only be playing one of two teams.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And judging from Renteria's, Rowand's, Huff's and Uribe's presences in the lineup, that team is apparently playing in 2002.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fine, fine boy, that Ross.

[Gwreck]

I really have a hard time rooting for Cody Ross but he's doing such a good job dismantling the Phillies that I guess I can overlook it...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Joking aside... I have NO problem rooting for Matt Cain, who's now pitching an official game (5K, 2BB, 2 H through 5).