Have you ever done something really well for a little while, and then a week later, you kinda suck at it?

There’s a sex joke in there somewhere…

Also, I very much am a minor stat-head, but I don’t have to live my life by baseball stats. I’m not that passionate about it, but I’m thankful that there are people in this world who are, because I find it fascinating. Saying that a team has several players that are playing well does not negate the thought process behind sabermetrics.

Momentum, or “good luck” or “bad luck” or “being in the groove” or whatever you want to call it — these things are the reality of the human experience. Everyone goes through slumps and high points. Have you ever done something really well for a little while, and then a week later, you kinda suck at it?

Well, yes, but I do need to point out that Craig was talking about a game that happened in the past. I was responding to Craig’s comments about something that happened in the past, therefore my framework is, well, in the past. It’s all ex post facto now, and that doesn’t negate the discussion I was trying to have.

Further, just because you can’t put a time frame on when they did or did not have momentum does not negate the idea that, just maybe, the Giants are playing good baseball. I’ll follow with an example from the Tigers. For instance, does anyone doubt that the pressure put on the Tigers has ratcheted up a notch? It’s not do-or-die — far from it — but they just lost game one with their best pitcher on the mound. It puts extra pressure on the Tigers.

When did that pressure arrive? In the fourth inning of last night’s game? The seventh? After is was over? Was it in the parking lot? The locker room?

Just because we don’t collectively know when (and how much) pressure is put on the Tigers does not need we need to negate the very idea that there is pressure in this world. And yeah, we can’t measure it. Such is the way of the world.

Same with “momentum” or “good luck” or “bad luck” or whatever you want to call it.

Yes, I believe I discussed that in my post.

Also “hustle” is not exclusive to the NL, its just Detroit has a bunch of big dudes that don’t run well.

He is justin g.d. verlander after all, be should get 22.”

As for trolling examples:

“Gints” This is about as cool as duck the Fodgers.

Sandoval weight reference – I almost did this myself at Tiger fans, seeing as much of their team is large, but thought better of it. Clearly, there are lots of great baseball players who aren’t exactly svelt. Do we really know more about physical fitness than them? I doubt it.

“battery chucker” Candlestick fans versus life-threatening danger in Chavez Ravine?

Do you have it in you to be a reasonable human being, or do you take the rivalry (and yourself) so seriously that you always have to be hostile?

There are plenty of cool Dodger fans, plenty of cool Giant fans, and a few not-so-great fans of those teams, and any other. All kidding aside, what the hell is the matter with you?

Maybe you need to change your screen name. It’s totally the opposite of your behavior.

Yeah, okay, Panda hit three. But much of the reason the Giants’ offense is hard to stop is due to the fact that statistically, they’re also hard to strike out. Pence and Belt are the only ones who do strike out a lot, and Belt is starting to put it together. As for Rasputin, if and when he ever gets his body under control at the plate, the Tigers are REALLY in trouble.

If you pitch reasonably well, play good defense, and put the ball in play, what a lot of people call “magic” happens. The Giants are doing the best job of playing as a team I’ve ever seen.

They’re saying the right things. They’re doing the right things. The fanbase is great. The ballpark is great. The organization seems to know what they’re doing. Hell, until recently, you’ve seen multiple posts from me suggesting they trade Sandoval.

At least for right now, it appears the organization has forgotten more than I’ll ever know. Bochy, Righetti, Sabean, and all the rest. Nice job, guys. Did I ever doubt you? What was I thinking?

I’ve followed the team on and off for over forty years.

It’s the best time to be a Giants fan I can remember.

Am I trolling here even though I am responding to your false assertions?

Or was I trolling there, when I made a comment about Gint fan behavior over the first 8 comments?

No, I know… I’m a troll because I’m a Dodgers fan who writes comments that probably mark you quite well as being a hyperactive bullshitter with the need to whine about the Dodgers so you spend a post minimizing the importance of some mindless, 20-second drivel that, not surprisingly, called Gint fans out for being narcissists.

I’m going with #3.

Tiger fans aren’t used to seeing fundamental baseball, so they don’t get that opportunity often.

Poor Battery Chucker…. It’s hard to take anything you write seriously. If you noticed (of course, you didn’t) when I posted about Gint fans “shooting themselves in the foot” regarding their commentary, a full 25% of the board was whining and crying about how big, bad Craig was a Hater who didn’t give even credence to the Gints in his write-up.

So the Tempor Tantrum was how you see a full board with wide range of comments. But, see, most of those comments were written after mine. Hence, what I think of you.

Understand? Look, if you’re saying that a dreaded Dodgers fan can’t make a complimentary comment about the Gints, then you’re pretty much painting folks into stereotypical corners so that your narrow view of the world can earn its muster.

At the end of the day, Gint fans like you don’t get respect because you don’t deserve it.

There’s not one baseball analyst that says, “I am an expert, and I think…”

Considering that (a) Craig grew up in the Detroit area as a Tigers’ fan before succumbing to the Braves and (b) his current significant other is a rabid Tigers’ fan, I think he’s been – how to say it? – admirably “fair and balanced”.

(Separate rant: When are we going find descriptors for two adults in a romantic relationship that aren’tt clinically sterile, like the phrase above, or straight from the pages of a bodice ripper, like paramour?)

In the interest of fairness, I suspect that if most of the oddsmakers had the Giants as favorites, Tigers Nation would be making similar complaints.

On the other hand, maybe we Giants fans just have a mild inferiority complex. Many of us are also Warriors fans, so it may be more of a masochism thing…

“I’ve got your triple-crown right here, baby”

http://thechive.com/2012/10/25/giants-pitcher-matt-cain-has-incredible-aimpower-video/

That said, Sandoval was behind 0-2 and crushed a neck high fastball into the seats. Nothing Verlander can do about that.

By the way, what exactly is a “tempor” tantrum?

You know, I don’t trade barbs with you all the time simply because you troll Giant fans. I devote plenty of posts to trolling Dodger fans, so what’s fair is fair.

But what you might want to look at is:

You NEVER actually post anything having to do with the Giants that ISN’T trolling.

I’ll know a sincere positive comment from you when I see one. You have no problem writing them about other baseball topics.

But the Giants seem to make you go poopie, and I feel obliged to mess with you. Call it what you like. It’s all in good fun. At least for me.

The Giants just won one game. And the script COULDN’T be more cool for a Giants fan. They need to win three out of the next six. As we’ve seen, anything can and will happen.

And judging from what nearly everyone was saying up to last night, the common crow is now an endangered species.

So, koufaxmitzvah, poster who I assume is named after a commendable, inspiring, righteous act of faith, do you have it in you to actually be a good sport?

YES! That’s what I saw, too! Not this “Verlander failed” crap. JV had some good stuff there. Sandoval hit his first homer off a collarbone high FB at ~97mph. The next was a low and away mid shin breaker, lots of movement: not a strike either of them and both ordinarily unhittable. He went after them and shouldn’t have been able to T them up but he DID. Shades of Kirby Puckett, oh yeah. All this hand wringing over HRs off of 2 very good Verlander pitches diminishes what Sandoval did. Clutch Power Hitting, baby.