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10/27: Open World Series Game 1 Thread


Cliff Lee

#33 / Pitcher / Texas Rangers

6-3

190

L

L

Aug 30, 1978



Tim Lincecum

#55 / Pitcher / San Francisco Giants

5-11

170

L

R

Jun 15, 1984


As long as he's got that hat, we're in this thing.

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Is that the NFL theme?

Let’s go Giants!

The NFL theme is now the MLB theme as well
Giants, actually

From last years (failed) stretch drive to make the playoffs. It was awful.

Ozzie Guillen!
I see Mark Lowe has been added to the Rangers too

Good for him.

If he pitches really well or memorably, he could get a full share.

Something else to root for: Mark Lowe screwing guys like Taylor Teagarden.

Cliff Lee vs a National League team...
Cliff Lee vs Tim Lincecum in game one of the World Series.

What a kick in the balls to Mariners fans. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but I will enjoy the game.

SHut up Fox sports assholes....

I want to see Willie mays on the field with the other Giants

It was nice seeing Bengie get some applause
Who cares about Bengie Molina?

He’s not even as interesting as his siblings.

I like Bengie
I like him because he has a dog's name.
This would work better if Poochie said it.
Dogs can't talk, silly.
Hey, Poochie. It looks like you've got something to say.

Do you?

yes i certainly do

i must go now

These are probably the two pictures I'm happiest to see for game 1 of the World Series.
*Barring alternate reality
I'd be pretty happy if Felix was pitching right now

One can only dream

I missed the start of that little montage but I don't think I saw the Mariners in there once

Yankees about 8 times, Royals and Astros at least twice each.

No Mariners representation from what I could tell either.
Has anyone seen that Ken Burns documentary?

Is it worth watching, or is it all ‘steroids, steroids, Bonds’?

Even though it's steroids-y, I like it.
The bottom of the "inning" was mostly steroids stuff,

but it wasn’t too bad.

Yankees Ichiro Steroids steroids Bonds.
Also, Red Sox
September 11th?
This is why I still have to listen to God Bless America every sunday.
That was Part 2.

Part 1 was like Bonds, strike, Braves, JOE TORRE, Latinos, Yankees, home run chase/steroids

There goes the no-hitter!
Elvis Andrus once again proving the value of playoff experience.
Or Elvis-related WS expereince, apparently
GET IT TOGETHER TIMMY
I don't want to say game over

but that’s probably game over.

Totally game over.
Very happy to be wrong in this case.
Oh come on, that wasn't worth a "claw"
What the fuck?
What the hell Timmy?!
That was different.
What the fuck?
TIM MCCARVER HAS NO IDEA

I dislike Tim McCarver.

Refreshing candour from McCarver.
Goddamnit stoner.
Hey Tim,

You can’t win this all by yourself.

ALRIGHT TIMMYYYYY
God I hate Lincecum

What a fucking useless waste of space stoner

It's almost like you could apply this to certain commenters on LL, too
AWW YEA HE KNEW THAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN
Tim Lincecum has no idea what's going on right now.
It's hard to throw a ball when you can't feel your hand.
What a lucky sob
Clearly, we haven't gone far enough with the designated hitter.

We need a designated fielder or designated brain for some pitchers.

Timmy is actually a psychic.

He was just making it an easier double play for Uribe.

Vladdy looked incredibly awkward there...
I think it's because he was moving.
Nice throw, though!
I almost forgot about Vlad's cannon.
I've seen him throw balls for homeruns before games.
FUCKING GIANTS
AND SANCHEZ YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THIRD AFTER THAT PASSED BALL
Who the F calls Cliff Lee the left-handed Mariano Rivera?

Tim McCarver is just the worst. There’s absolutely no analysis in that comment.

Cutters?
But Lee throws things besides that!

They’re completely different, dominant pitchers.

That was just the only link between the two I could think of.

I’m listening on radio, so I can’t hear McCarver.

I'm DVR'ing as much as I can to avoid McCarver.
I just turned the sound off.
I think the analysis was that he breaks a lot of bats.
He did let us know who Mariano Rivera is.

I mean, I was all like “Who the fuck is he talking about? Who is this Rivera guy?”

There's analysis, it's just not helpful or accurate.
Gotz to work in those Yankee references to drive up ratingz.
X-Factor'd
I like how Buck started by saying that story has already been worn out.
World Champion Bengie Molina.
I've wanted Cliff to win his games and Texas to lose all the others.

I’m having second thoughts about that now.

Well, just think, what would a true fan do?
I don't know anymore!

So many conflicted feelings………

He grips that change more like a splitter.

Just don’t call it a splitter, apparently.

Well that settles it

Cliff Lee is perfect.

HAHAHAAA!!!

Double for Cliff Lee!!

Cliff Lee doubled.
Cliff Le for Supreme High Everything!!!

WTF???

Ichirolee
At least make an effort and go with Leechiro or something.
Holy fuck!

I don’t know how, but Cliff Lee keeps making me love him more!

by being awesome?
Well, this just keeps getting weirder.
I didn't know

that you can run the bases with your warm up jacket. Guess it makes sense for the arms

Pitchers almost always wear their jacket.
Havent you watched NL baseball before?
The jacket-on-the-basepaths never gets brought up when discussing whether to expand or abolish the DH.

It’s clearly messing with the uniformity of the game.

I guess i never

payed attention that closely. I don’t watch a ton of NL ball either though.

My favorite part is how he decided not to do the claw.
Yeah, that was cool
Holy crap. Nice slide, too.
Straight throw, Begie's out by a mile

Also, damn, Cliff can slide like a mofo

Wow, what a terrible throw.
Cliff Lee is a career .250 hitter in the post-season.
I hate it when they refere to the last time something happened and then it was just 2 series ago.
Lincecum is doing a good job proving me thesis.

That being that Timmy is overrated stoner trash.

Go Cliff Lee.

And my thesis as well.
I fail to see how simply not keeping up with Lee at the start of the game makes him trash.

The stoner part is documented, but trash? I’d have him on my team any day of the week.

I would, except that it is an absolute certainty that he is going to blow out his arm.

And that right soon.

Thanks for that, Driveline Mechanics.
What are the California Lotto numbers?
That is a ridiculous statement.

He could never be injured, or he could explode tomorrow. Just like any pitcher. Let’s not let our rooting interests get in the way of common sense here.

If you took out the "absolutely certainty" part of your statement, people would probably be less inclined to pile on.
Awww, it's l'il Cliff!
Yeah Lee destroys bats.
Hey, Cody Ross can do it, too.
Well, Vlad has not a lot of range

missing Ichiro out there Cliff?

Good lord Vlad.
Criff Ree!
No.
I don't know.

It still gets a laugh out of me.

Why would Young never try to get behind the ball?
[picture of roger dorn from major league]
They've gotta toss him, there's no way that happens accidentally.
Freddy Sanchez needs to tuck in his pants or something.

What kind of style is he going for?

Also, good hit.

Michael Young is losing this inning.

YESYESYES

KEEP GOING GIANTS

Michael Young sucks balls.
KEEP HITTING IT TO VLAD AND YOUNG
or just over the infield
HOLY FUCK I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING
The Giants must be cheating
I think they replaced Cliff Lee's rosin with with flour.

We all know he can’t pitch without that stuff.

Ok now that the chance of utter domination by Lee is over I can start to root for the Giants in this game too
Series over

Giants win

Here comes Cody Mothafuckin' Ross!
Well shit.
Vlad is the opposite of a player who "looks like a kid out there."

He has progeria?
Beat the shit out of Cliff Lee you fuckers
Tim, you know little enough about baseball

for the love of god don’t start talking about soccer.

That was really awkward. Tim did not know where he was going about halfway through.
Cody Ross has looked awfully familiar to me. Then I figured out who he looks like.

It’s this guy, from Friday Night Lights, Lost, Justified, and probably other good TV shows.

I actually remember him from Lost (after looking at the credits)!

I feel so accomplished!

It was pretty sweet when he showed up again in the sixth season.
How do I love good defense.

Too bad there is none in this game.

Renteria is when your diarrhea crawls back up your asshole.
That explains the brown hue on Cliff Lee's rear
Cliff Lee's double was impressive.

I’ve seen AL pitchers do better.

I really hope Erik is back next year.
I'd forgotten how out of his mind happy he looked when that happened.
I think that's my favourite moment in it.

Which is pretty impressive. much like that play by Uribe.

Cliff is already at 75 pitches through 4 innings.
I don't think Panda would have made that play.
I notice they aren't they saying 'MVP' every other sentence for Hamilton like they did for Cano
Obviously Hamilton's swing isn't slump-proof
This game is full of doubles.

Get one more!

FREDDY SANCHEZ HEARS YOUR PRAYERS
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I have to agree with you.
Cliff Lee sucks.
Has he thrown one good curveball today?
I always thought the heart of the lineup is 3,4,5
CLIFF LEE WALKED SOMEONE

HE IS MORTAL

Go Giants but I don't like to see Cliff out of sorts.
If this game has taught me anything it's that I'm over Cliff Lee.
You found a much hotter girl.
I pine way too long.
MAKE 'IM PAY, CODY
C'Mon Cliff, get it together.
They're playing the Safeco song.

Maybe it’ll help him.

Fucking Ross is fucking boss.
Who is pitching?
I'm not sure
He doesn't seem to be smiling much.
Now I feel sad for him.

No fuck it! GO GIANTS GO!

Too bad Cliff Lee has no postseason experience to fall back on.
It's okay to root against Cliff Lee now?

Because I dont want the Rangers to win.

Nolan Ryan is scowling at Cliff Lee.
THIS IS FANTASTIC
I am loving this!

Suck it Lee!

Holy crap this is fun!
Eeessh, pulled in the 5th. :( Sowwy Cwiff.
Who would've guessed?
He's.....human?
Barry looks really skinny now.

Pirates/pre-cheating Bonds.

Funny,

Lee running into the dugout looks different now.

Feast on these nips, Cliff!
I'm sorry, Cliffy

But WOOOOOOOO GO GIANTS

We might be able to afford Cliff Lee!
You would just trade him to the A's for their top draft pick.
Gotta love the playoffs!
Shit just got real son.
This game is locked up
URIBE BITCHES!
Well, I think I'm about done with game one :(
ANDALE ANDALE URIBE
My neighbors feed is coming through about 5 seconds before mine.

He gave the HR away.

Your neighbour is Darren O'Day?
I see what you did there.

But he may be.

Also, UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Edgar Renteria has 2252 hits and is 33 years old.
Oh wow.

If he can keep a job, he might do it.

Helps his cause that he's been playing professionally for 30 years.
Suck it, Texas.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahagaaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahagahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

"If you have two at bats in an inning, some damage has been done."

………………………………..

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Haha, fuck you Texas.
Hahahaha

That’s unfortunate

And really fucking funny.
Aww...that's too bad.
Ah, so there's the AL West we know so well...
I just... where has the defense gone in this postseason?

I think AT&T park needs an error adjustment factor.

GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS

GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS

Timmy smells the win here.
hell yeah he does

one more strike baby

And then three more innings.
10 more actually :)
a lot more torture to come
I'm surprised the Rangers still have a 1 percent chance of winning this.
Yeah,

It happens

Twice in all major league baseballing history. That's less than 1 percent.

Of course, now the Rangers are up to 4 percent.

This game is the best game ever
Jeff Sullivan was so right in his preview about the predicting thing.
It's really easy to predict things when you are actually in the future
But then it's not predicting
Fuuuuuuck
I like the juxtaposition of these two comments.
You jammy prick.
Timmy's really using his legs to save runs tonight
Timmy has a boo boo.
They need to give Tim a shield instead of a glove.
Okay, enough with the comeback already.
Some battle of the aces.
Headline never written: Battle of aces lays a deuce
Well this was a disspointing outcome to this matchup.
Not if the Giants win it isn't
So good hitting beats good pitching?
Wrong. Bad hitting beats good pitching.
I think you mean Giants beat everything
I'm glad these guys realize that they're bad at their jobs
Cliff Lee has no idea.
A wee bit faster, Tony.
Tony can still bring it
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Fuck you Kinsler!

Nice play by Huff.
Wow! Stupid baserunning.
Someone was either yelling "GO! GO! GO!" or "NO! NO! NO!"
The ladies wear beards and the men wear thongs.

Welcome to SF.

Mark Lowe radio mention-yay.
I miss you Mark.

Why again was he included in that deal?

I'm guessing to make up for the loss of Leuke.
I'd rather have Lowe.
I wouldn't.

Lueke looks to be a very similar pitcher and is both younger and (probably) healthier

Unfortunately.... Problems.
Exactly.

I like to root with a clear conscience.

Who didn't see that coming?
AHAHAHAHA VLAD!
He's clearly powerless without his Gladiator helmet around.
Or without Ichiro to bail him out in right field
I think most any right fielder makes that play...
Poor Mark :(

Still, GIANTS!

Once a Mariner, always a Mariner.
At least Ishikawa is a Seattle native.

So it all evens out.

Losing is contagious... :-(
Well now it's just sad.
AHAHAHAHA VLAD AGAIN!
10-4, this here's the rubber duck, we've got ourselves a convoy.

CONVOY!!!!

So, odds on him starting tomorrow in right?
I hope Blowers was watching that and remembers it next time he tries to tell us that Rob Johnson runs well for a catcher.
I'm pretty sure Kirkman he gave up a hit on his first pitch last time I saw him against the Yankees.
I don't believe that confidence has much of a factor in baseball

But I hope tonight’s pounding completely demoralizes the Rangers.

I think batters can get the hinkys.

Of course this is pure opinion.

Or heck, what about Rick Ankiel? He lost it as a pitcher.
He never really had it as a pitcher.
I keep expecting the duck to quack.
Are you fucking kidding me Bochy?
Well this game should be over by now
Eww. Button your shirt Brian Wilson.
THAT'S your one piece of grooming advice for him?
HA!

I guess I’ve gotten used to the rest.

Bruce Bochy is bringing in his closer to protect a 7 run lead with 2 outs remaining.
Is there a mercy rule in the playoffs.
Gimpin' ain't easy.
Yeah, give Vlad a high five! He helped you get one step closer to the end!
And holy shit Joe Buck just said the same thing.
Wilson is just trying to make this a save situation.
Oh god Kinsler's going to hit a dinger isn't he?
Good Lord

The Giants don’t like to make things easy

Torture! You need to listen to McCarver more.
I'm pretty sure that's the last thing I should be listening to.
Wrong- I'm watching muted with Jon Miller radio and a 4 second delay and it's better than FOX commentary.
But Joe Morgan.
Yeah, I like Miller

But Joe Morgan is worse than Buck and McCarver combined.

I put cotton balls in my right ear so problem solved...
Tim McCarver "We have no idea what we're talking about."
The final score of a game started by Cliff Lee and Time Lincecum is 11-7.

Baseball!

Damn right, baseball.
Time Lincecum

Tim Lincecum’s time-traveling doppleganger from 2056.

And game time of 3:36
Cliff's been in higher-scoring games.

Like this chestnut.

Put it this way:

The Rangers scored 7 runs for Cliff Lee, and it wasn’t enough.

Technically they scored 2 for him.
7 games Giants win.
Do it again tomorrow!
That's some wart Freddy Sanchez is sporting under his lower lip
Woo Giants.

Poor Cliff.

I hope lots of peeps watched the game with Edgar tonight.
The number of errors in this game is amazing to me. This is the WORLD SERIES!

This is not the best of baseball.

Sup LL

Giants fan and SF native living in Seattle checking in. Thanks for the majority support!

If anyone’s interested, McCoven and various other SF fans have been taking over Auto Battery on Capitol Hill, up at Union & 10th. I won’t be there tomorrow myself, but there’s usually a good crowd. Also, cheap pints and food from Po Dog next door.

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