POST-GAME: Show Me Your Jazz Hands
Something happened in the bottom of the 8th. The place was packed, the mystique was in the air and UUUU-RIBE chants rang throughout the stadium.
It was a 3-3 game, no one out and the count 1-2, both teams are trying to find their identity for a playoff push with August on the doorstep. And then..
“HITS ONE HIGH… HITS ONE DEEP… OUTTA HERE!!!”
Juan Uribe on cue located a pitch right over the 400-foot marker in left-center field. The 38,000 had never been louder.
Something happened that made me believe, we might have a chance.
And then Edgar Renteria not only hit a bomb to left, but flipped his bat in pay-back for the cocky bat flip of Cody Ross earlier in the game.
We’ll jump past the Brian Wilson shoes and slider that my dad could have thrown better and he’s 74 .. Because this team showed the gut and will of a champion. Andres Torres the MVP, Buster still streaking and the old guard lookin’ young.
I don’t want to ruin this night with any more words.. Great game, great match-up, I’m a believer.
NOW LET’S GO GET THAT MEDIOCRE BULLPEN ARM!
AND HAPPY KRUK AND KUIP DAY!
*words used in this post may or may not directly represent the beliefs of the writer.
UUUUUUUUUUUUU-RIBE!!!!! An unsubstantiated report claims that Edgar Renteria’s bat flip was aimed at Fire-Sabian.com. “Take that, last night’s post game thread” Renteria exclaimed as he rounded the bases.
It was nice to see Renteria the finally get the barrel on the ball. Happy Kruk and Kuip day. Great win.
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Something tells me Eugenio Velez had a huge smile on his face when Uribe pimped that HR in the 8th. Stay hot fellas!
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Was good to see the homers, Marlins were just jacking out homers like crazy while the giants had to work hard for their runs.
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Giants interested in Brandon League, Nats want MadBum for Dunn.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/27/SPQS1EKVPD.DTL&type=sports
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Haha so sad. Little FS troll is now a believer. Typical troll concern fan trying to get attention. Pessimistic in your views of the franchise so in case the Giants stink, you can be the “I told you so” guy. But when the Giants win, you’re now the #1 fan. Unbelievable.
Let me guess you’re still mad that
Sabean had the best FA signing of the year.
Sabean has managed to grow and develop 3 absolute studs(Bum,Tim,Buster) through the farm. A criticism of the past.
Still mad that Bochy showed his genius last Tuesday to win the game for us in the land of evil.
And deep down probably MAD that the team is doing well. Proving to knee-jerk attention whores like yourself that Sabean is indeed competent and does his job very well when given the chance.
Yeah I know, Zito and Rowand, waaaaahh waaaaaah
Show me a G.M. who hasn’t made big mistakes in FA. They all have.
What a douchebag you are.
PRO-SABEAN FTW!
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First, let me stop you from looking like a complete idiot. At the end of the article it says, “words used in this post may or may not directly represent the beliefs of the writer.”
Obviously that post was exaggerating and the fact is we haven’t hit the trade deadline. It’s a 162-game season and teams will go on dry and hot spells.
And I’m not forcing you to this site, so the fact that you got so angry to make a post like that proves that you are really that big of a loser or I am that powerful of a writer.. Either way it’s funny.
I’m not going to go into the Sabean best FA of the year BS because I’ve been over that 100 times and Sabean didn’t draft ya boys Timmy, Buster and Bum and only brought Bum up after two terrible pitchers tried.
Thank you for your response, but your anger is displaced and would be much more appropriate at whatever family member you are obviously angry about.
CONCLUSION: I’m a Giants fan at heart and have said I’d love for Sabean to prove me wrong and have us win a title… But it’s extremely unlikely. This post was not as serious as you may think it is and go out and fly a kite because you are way too angry.
PS: When you say “Sabean finally given a chance” are you saying the past 13 years before he was never given a chance?
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^^^ Sabean never gave us a chance. F the guy fire hiss a** today. Oh yea, what about my boy Renteria. Coming up clutch.
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No, you don’t force me to read this site but you have to link it at almost every other Giants site and you are generally a lame duck self-promoter.
We’re all entitled to our opinion but you are the worst type of fan. Look good when its’ bad and hop on the bandwagon when we win.
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And yes, I do generally believe that Magowan hand-cuffed Sabean with the minor leagues all those years with the “win now Bonds” theme going on
Now that Bow-Tie has given him the bonus money to sign his draft picks, we are seeing the influx of youth on the squad.
No one’s denying he made big mistakes, he’d be the first to admit it. And yeah maybe his PR skills still need work, but he does a lot more good than he’s given credit for.
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No one’s denying he made big mistakes,(this sentence started out good) he’d be the first to admit that.(laughable) And yeah maybe his PR skills still need work, (an understatement, but I like the start of this sentence as well) but he does a lot more good than he’s given credit for.(Oh noooo! I have been duped into finishing another sentence.)
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Sabean is the worst GM in the league. I could go over and over all the trades and signings that has made him the undisputed champion, but i think this site does a fair job of that already. If you want to start up GiveSabeanAnotherExtension.com please provide some proof that he is crazy like a fox, instead of the David Kahn of Major League Baseball. Kaaaaaahn!!!!!!! (sorry, I had to do that) And its not just a few disgruntled Giants fans that believe Sabean is the worst GM, in a poll done by Buster Olney earlier this year, Sabean was voted as the worst by a panel of his peers. One GM even stated that he refuses to even call Sabean and instead goes straight to assistant Bobby Evans. I am a Giants fan, I watch every game, and I root for a Giant victory. Nothing would make me happier than to see the Giants win the world series, but if they do, even objective observers can see it will be in spite of Brian Sabean.
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No, he’s not the worst GM in the league. Omar Minaya holds that claim.
Have you seen the other bad contracts out there? Zito’s doesn’t look too bad these days.
But once again Eric the troll gets to jump on the bandwagon when SABEAN has built a competitive team.
When has Eric given him credit for drafting Timmy, Bum, and Posey? NEVER.
When has Eric give him credit for Huff? Oh wait, Sabean doesn’t get credit for that one because he contacted Laroche and Johnson first. Even though if Eric were GM he would have stuck with Ishikawa and not touched Huff with a 10 foot pole.
Uribe for 3 million? No credit.
Finding a talent like Brian Wilson in the 28th round of the draft? No credit.
Jonathan Sanchez in the 23rd? No credit.
Look smithy boy, if you really want to compare Sabean’s contracts with the other GM’S around the league I’m happy to do that. Sabean is going to look a lot better in your eyes.
And Hey! The Giants are in the WC LEAD.
But sabean deserves none of that credit, none at all.
What a bunch of whiny sad sack pessimistic fans.
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BTW, when it comes to Buster Olney’s article, Buster only interviewed 12 gm’s and 7 of them said Sabean was the worst.
Sabean then talked on his interview with Ralph that he tried calling Olney about it and Olney refused his call like a pus.sy
Surprise.
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BTW Eric, next time you have one of your pus.sy ass-ed podcasts I’m more than happy to call in and debate your silly ass, unlike Radnich. I don’t back down.
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Hey Enut a) you can say pussy, lol and b) you wana go with the “first-place in wild-card in july” argument? Yeah, we were in first place in the wild-card for like three months last year and look how well that turned out.
Bottom line: 14 years, zero championships — he’s already been given 3 times longer than any other GM in Giants history — chalk it up as a loss and move on..
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And the whole bandwagon thing, you’re joking right?
I’ve supported this team since I could get allowance. This team was 14-games over .500 last year too again, see how that turned out.
It’s the same ol’ shenanigans and saying I’m hopping on a bandwagon is by far the most idiotic comment on this Website.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I want nothing but a World Series title, with this front office and manager I don’t see it possible…
Opinions.. WEIRD!
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Good job not responding to my points. You’re just an attention whore who doesn’t give credit to sabean where it’s due.
So you are still a naysayer for this year. Great. We’ll see who’s right, but the way they are playing right now, and your poopy forecasts don’t look too good.
Best of you to go read another Tim Krapakami article so you can get more ammunition against Sabean. What a sad paethetic loser you are.
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If you read my posts dedicated to Sabean you would see that I actually do.. but thanks for worhtless input.
There’s some irony in calling someone a sad, pathetic loser for writing about his favorite baseball team while said poster is in a commenting war on said Website.
IRONY!
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Enut21, I am curious, are you saying that Sabean is a good GM? Or with the Omar Minaya arguement, are you saying that he is not the worst GM and merely the second worst? Also, when you poll 12 GM’s and 7 of them call you by name as the worst GM those are pretty bad numbers. But maybe i’m looking at it the wrong way, 5 out of 12 GM’s polled didnt say Sabean was the worst GM in the entire league.
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Lets just hope Uribe and Renteria can continue to hit.
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Stocks, that’s the wild-card question.. PUN obviously intended.
We all know everyone else can play relatively well, but for us to have a shot down the stretch those two old men need to be consistent..
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Smith- My point is that you need to interview all the gm’s to get an accurate read.
Sabean’s point with Ralph that he still talks to 20 gm’s in the league pretty much correlates with the information presented. I’m sorry you don’t see it that way.
Where is Eric complaining about drafting Wilson in the 24th round? or Sanchez? Oh wait, good moves. I forgot.
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uribe at 31 is an “old-man”?
Wow Eric douche has said it all.
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I love the Giants and I like nothing more than watching and discussing Giants baseball while wearing orange tinted glasses. I am a homer, and if Sabean trades Lincecum for Scott Podsednik or gives Mark DeRosa an extention after team doctors decide that there only course of action is to cut off his hand to save the wrist, I will still root for this team in hopes that they win a world series. I love that right now the Giants are in the hunt for a division title, but looking objecively at Sabean’s body of work, can you honestly say he is the one that has put the Giants in this position?
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YES. No other GM wanted to draft timmy due to his size. He did.
He has built an incredible pitching staff, the only bad move being Zito, but even he is getting back to the #3 pitcher we thought he would be.
How many GM’s can say they hit on talent in the draft 3 years in a row like Timmy, Bum, and Posey? Not many.
Huff was a great low-risk high reward move after Laroche and Johnson didn’t want to come.
Uribe was a great find.
Andres Torres is going to lead the league in WAR, another great find.
he has made his mistakes, just like every other GM. he’s certainly not the #1 guy in the league, but with the pitching he has built there is no way he is the worst.
And as for the Zito signing, I thought it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that it was Magowan’s fuck-up, not Sabean’s. Sabean hinted as much on a radio interview in 2008.
I don’t see any credit for the good he has done on this site. it’s unbelievable.
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Enut I thought it was Rowand and Renteria -
and Smith poses a very good question.
And yes the worst GMs still make good moves, obviously. I have not called him the worst GM in baseball. Mine, Smith’s and everyone elses argument is it’s been 14 years, he’s had his turn.. obviously it’s not working
move on. you do realize we will never agree and this is pointless — unless of course you have little to no life than we can do this all day cowboy
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Enut
He didn’t go out and scout these guys.. There are other people that go out and do that shit, hell, he didn’t even watch Posey until a few days before he FINALLY called him up.
HE didn’t draft him, his scouts did.
If you want to give credit for his draft picks go back to the days he was a Yankee Scout, he had gems like Jorge Posada.. HE GETS CREDIT for those
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You telling me that Brian Sabean never went to FSU or WASH ST. to scout Posey or Timmy personally?
You don’t have the first clue how a GM operates. I’ve never heard anything so stupid.
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The guy that said “Hey let’s get this Tim Lincecum guy, I’ve watched him for 6 months now and he has amazing stuff” was not Brian Sabean
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And you don’t think sabean has FINAL say in the draft war room? 2010 was the first draft he wasn’t involved with, every other one he was involved in the the Giants war room.
God you’re fucking dense.
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This is the stupidest argument ever. I give Sabean credit for the good things he does, but why havent you answered anything Smith has asked…
Do you honestly believe after 14 years that he should stlll be our GM
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Fire Sabean
7/28/10
The guy that said “Hey let’s get this Tim Lincecum guy, I’ve watched him for 6 months now and he has amazing stuff” was not Brian Sabean
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OH BOY. You are lost, little man. If you think that Sabean didn’t scout these guys at least ONCE and made the final say on the draft picks, you’re out of your damn mind.
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“his is the stupidest argument ever. I give Sabean credit for the good things he does, but why havent you answered anything Smith has asked…
Do you honestly believe after 14 years that he should stlll be our GM”
What did smith ask that I didn’t answer?
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I didn’t say he didn’t scout him AT LEAST ONCE or has the final say, he’s the god damn GENERAL MANAGER. Obviously, I’m saying he’s not the guy that found Timmy and Brian
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“looking objecively at Sabean’s body of work, can you honestly say he is the one that has put the Giants in this position?”
“I am curious, are you saying that Sabean is a good GM? Or with the Omar Minaya arguement, are you saying that he is not the worst GM and merely the second worst?”
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You’re right about one thing little- douche Eric. we’ll never agree with this because you are a sheep who believes public perception and doesn’t do any research.
But I’ll just continue watching this team play well and get into the Post season.
What did sabean do this off-season?
Best FA signing of the year.
Re-signed uribe for 3M
Made a mistake with derosa.
Stayed clear of overpriced FA’S like Bay or Holliday, like he should have.
has built a compettitve team from the ground up after the Bonds era.
I’ll leave it with that. You sir, are a whiny pessimistic douche-nozzle that makes me sick.
Have a good day, asshole.
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I already answered those questions, pay attention.
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Fire Sabean
7/28/10
“looking objecively at Sabean’s body of work, can you honestly say he is the one that has put the Giants in this position?””
read the post right after that. I answered a resounding “yes”.
“I am curious, are you saying that Sabean is a good GM? Or with the Omar Minaya arguement, are you saying that he is not the worst GM and merely the second worst?”
Read the same post, I addressed that as well.
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I thought you were leaving, lol..
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So sad, I already kicked your ass and you have to cop to the “I thought you were leaving” mantra.
Isn’t all this attention what you want, douche-face?
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INTERNET FIGHTS R FUN
LAST WORD!!!!!!!
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Still sad, you’ve only addressed half of my points. What a sad pathetic douche-face. can’t even back up what you say.
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We’ve done this for 30 comments, nobody wins in an argument like this, it just makes two people look really childish.
You have your stance and I have mine not much more we can do here, champ. Excuse me I’m going to go be the bigger child here..
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You haven’t addressed my points. Simple as that. In fact smith did a better job at getting into a logical discussion.
But look we’re up 4-0, and on our way to the postseason. Don’t jump on the bandwagon, we don’t need your whiny ass.
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What did I not address, friend
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Hey Enut thanks for jinxing the Giants about being up 4-0..
Still look like the World-Series winning Sabean raised team? Give me a break
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ahahaha loser! Givin up on your team what a fucking jackass!
TORRES BABY! DO YOU FEEL THE VIBE WITH THIS CLUB!
NICE TRY, ASSWIPE!
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AHAHAHAHA FS OWNED!
YA SPOKE TOO SOON, PUSSY!
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I call bull-snat on you. I bet you didn’t even know who Huff was, or at the very least knew he was a FA.
The guy was given up for dead, many thought he was DONE.
I find it real hard to believe a somewhat knowledgable fan like yourself even knew about Huff before it was reported. But hey, I could be wrong. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one.
Now onto that jinx blame, why you gotta start pointing fingers before the game is over? real keen to avoid that one, you looked like an ass.
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Not really, I didn’t say OMFG we lost! But you were so cocky when we had a 4-0 lead that you called the playoffs? lol, you, mr. know-it-all should know this happened last year and to get your hopes up right now is a joke.
I can look forward to a race down the stretch, but it’s nothing close to a lock
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As for Huff, of course you’d say BS. This is why arguing about stuff like this is worthless
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Here’s the mindless arguments from the torres story for anyone who cares– i’m sorry if you do.
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closed.
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oh look more garbage:
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You gave the Huff signing a B?
I don’t think so.
http://fire-sabean.com/2010/07/sabean-all-star-give-me-a-break/#more-3274
Try not to go edit that out and look like a d-bag. I’m too lazy to take a screen shot. You’re already digging yourself a hole.
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try clicking the link I sent you first brother… I wasn’t referring to that one. And yes, for the reason that Sabean offered Laroche 18 mil and Nick Johnson before he got Huff…
Huff was the only one left and they said last year they weren’t going with Ishi full time
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The link you have is a screenshot of giving Huff a B.
The fact is you gave him a D, so you are a bald-faced liar.
Huff, the best signing of the year, a D.
More spin. I love it.
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No response? Typical. Proven wrong again, you called the Huff signing a “d”.
So sad.
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I’m cooking dinner with my girlfriend, srry bro…
And I called how the signing happened a D, comprehension.. reading comprehension
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English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?
I find it funny you complain about me not answering Q’s but when I do the same, it’s “I’m cooking dinner with my GF, Keith Law”.
Hilarious.
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