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Welp there it is. Giant's lose and Dodgers win. Man, what a wild finish but at the end of the day, the Dodgers proved to be the better team. No excuses for this loss, the Dodgers earned it all year. Congrats to you LA fans and good luck in the post season.

Poor Bret Tomko pitched his heart out today too. Hopefully Houston will lose and we SF fans might have a chance tomorrow with Schimdt on the mound. Oaktown is also out of the playoffs. Bad day here in the bay area.

A maybe a small note on Hermanson's defense, this was the 5th straight day he pitched. I honestly would have listed him as not available but Alou used him anyways.

eltinator wrote:Welp there it is. Giant's lose and Dodgers win. Man, what a wild finish but at the end of the day, the Dodgers proved to be the better team. No excuses for this loss, the Dodgers earned it all year. Congrats to you LA fans and good luck in the post season.

Poor Bret Tomko pitched his heart out today too. Hopefully Houston will lose and we SF fans might have a chance tomorrow with Schimdt on the mound. Oaktown is also out of the playoffs. Bad day here in the bay area.

A maybe a small note on Hermanson's defense, this was the 5th straight day he pitched. I honestly would have listed him as not available but Alou used him anyways.

Eh, the Dodgers suck. :P I can never say "Dodgers" and the word following this sentence in the same sentence. "Good"

:mrgreen:

Hermanson just isn't an ideal closer IMO. He doesn't have enough speed on his fastball to be effective. If he had a good fastball, he'd be a bigger threat, but I've watched some of his games, and he gives up too many bases for a closer.

mvc wrote:

Eh, the Dodgers suck. :P I can never say "Dodgers" and the word following this sentence in the same sentence. "Good"

:mrgreen:

Hermanson just isn't an ideal closer IMO. He doesn't have enough speed on his fastball to be effective. If he had a good fastball, he'd be a bigger threat, but I've watched some of his games, and he gives up too many bases for a closer.

Man...the Giants choked...AGAIN!!! :doh:

mvc wrote:

Eh, the Dodgers suck. :P I can never say "Dodgers" and the word following this sentence in the same sentence. "Good"

Yea I know exactly how you feel. As much as I love my Giants, I play it fair have to give credit where it's due. A 7 run 9th is amazing, although I was cussing my heart out the whole time :beaten:

mvc wrote:
Hermanson just isn't an ideal closer IMO. He doesn't have enough speed on his fastball to be effective. If he had a good fastball, he'd be a bigger threat, but I've watched some of his games, and he gives up too many bases for a closer.

Yea he only throws 93 max and that's not very effective. He does have a sharp slider and split but I think he's a better choice than Herges. You must remember that he's been a starter all his life and with an offseason of preparation, he can bump up the fastball to the mid 90s. Maybe the Giants could try Foppert in a relief role next year or something. He's got a mid 90s fastball with a nasty slider. So nasty that he once struck out Helton on 2 straight sliders.

Anyways, where is BMW with his incredibly large font? :hehe:

eltinator wrote:

Yea he only throws 93 max and that's not very effective. He does have a sharp slider and split but I think he's a better choice than Herges. You must remember that he's been a starter all his life and with an offseason of preparation, he can bump up the fastball to the mid 90s. Maybe the Giants could try Foppert in a relief role next year or something. He's got a mid 90s fastball with a nasty slider. So nasty that he once struck out Helton on 2 straight sliders.

Anyways, where is BMW with his incredibly large font? :hehe:

Well if Nen ever heals, he's probably the closer for next season. I think he was supposed to come back mid-season this year, but more complications I guess. But a fresh Nen next year would be sweet.

mvc wrote:

Well if Nen ever heals, he's probably the closer for next season. I think he was supposed to come back mid-season this year, but more complications I guess. But a fresh Nen next year would be sweet.

Yea, that would be "if" he comes back. If he can't recover from this surgery, he has said he would hang it up but if he does come back, he definately wants to be back with the Giants. I hope he will have the same stuff as before. A healthy Nen would own Eric Gagne :hehe: :hehe:

mvc wrote:Eh, the Dodgers suck. :P I can never say "Dodgers" and the word following this sentence in the same sentence. "Good"

:mrgreen:

Stealing a page from The Man:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The Dodgers may suck, but they won the NL West.... Add you can't deny that.... :woot: :hehe: :woot: :hehe:


Seven runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Giants....

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Today's final results:

Ichiro 1-for-5.

260 hits total. One more game to close out the season. Whew. :)

You wanna talk about choking, then you gotta talk about the A's... :shakehead: :shakehead:



Now those stupid Angels are in the playoffs.... :bleh:

It seems so anti-climatic now. But I am very happy that he did it already.

koolaid wrote:It seems so anti-climatic now. But I am very happy that he did it already.

Yup. Once the record gets broken, things get boring......

Time to wait till next season. :D

Last day of the season:

Houston wins and takes the Wild Card spot, so the Giants are out of the playoffs...........

Final game of the season:

Ichiro 2-for-4, 262 hits total. Another great year for Ichiro. :applaud: :applaud: :woot:

bmwracer wrote:Final game of the season:

Ichiro 2-for-4, 262 hits total. Another great year for Ichiro. :applaud: :applaud: :woot:

that's great.. ^^ :bonk:

Giant's win but so does Houston so they're officially out. Nice outting from Schimidt though and it's great to see Foppert pitch a scoreless inning with 2 Ks. Back to the drawing board for us.

So here we go, playoff fever! It's the Hunt for October and your first round match up goes as follows.

In the National League:

Atlanta vs Houston
St. Louis vs LA

In the American League:

New York vs Minnesota
Anaheim vs Boston

Any predictions yet anyone?

eltinator wrote:So here we go, playoff fever! It's the Hunt for October and your first round match up goes as follows.

In the National League:

Atlanta vs Houston
St. Louis vs LA

In the American League:

New York vs Minnesota
Anaheim vs Boston

Any predictions yet anyone?

No predictions, but I'll tell you who I'd like to see in the NLCS and ALCS:

Dodgers vs. Houston

Boston vs. Minnesota

:D

Ok well here are my picks...

NLDS:

St. Louis over LA (5)
Houston over Atlanta (4)

ALDS:

Minnesota over NYY (5)
Boston over Anaheim (3)

NLCS:
Houston over St. Louis (6)

ALCS:
Minnesota over Boston (7)

World Series:
Minnesota over Houston (6) <--- In Johan Santana "aka the best pitcher in the Major Leagues" I believe! :woot:

Minnesota?? I dunno....

I do know it ain't gonna be Boston.... The Curse Lives!!! :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:You wanna talk about choking, then you gotta talk about the A's... :shakehead: :shakehead:

TELL ME ABOUT IT! I WAS AT THE FREAKING GAME ON SATURDAY!!! :mecry: :mecry: :mecry:

For the Oakland A's, Saturday's lost was the season in a nutshell: played good enough to win but the bullpen blows it. I think that was 22nd or 23rd blown hold/save of the season.

Now you understand why we refer to the closer, Octavio Dotel, as Octavio DOH-tel... :doh: :doh: :doh:

However, it was the worse for the Giants... bullpen blew a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 9th, to lose 3 to 7, giving up three runs to make it a tie and then giving up a Grand Salami. It is theoretically impossible for the Giants bullpen to have done a worse job, a disaster for the history books. :banghead: :mecry:

At least my homeboys, the Cal Bears, are kickin' booty! :woot:



Go Bears! :woot: :woot:
-PCM

bmwracer wrote:Minnesota?? I dunno....

I do know it ain't gonna be Boston.... The Curse Lives!!! :hehe:

Well either that or Anaheim but I hate Anaheim (see 2002 playoffs) and I want to see the Yanks and their free spending losing again. That and in Johan "AL Cy Young award winner" Santana I believe :hehe: :hehe: