**2010-2011 SF Giants off season thread**

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Irishmutt

Irishmutt

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BRIAN WILSON WAS A NUT LAST NIGHT LOOKING ALL CAPTAIN LIKE THE GRAY BEARD HAD ME AND MY WIFE LAUGHING AND THEN HE BROUGHT OUT HIS LITTLE MACHINE. HE IS A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION HE IS THERE BUT HE IS NOT THERE. BWEEZY IS TOO MUCH I LOVE HOW HE DESCRIBED HOW CRAZY YOU HAVE TO BE TO BE A CLOSER AND ABOUT GETTING DRY HUMPED TIME AND TIME AGAIN SO WHEN THEY FINALLY DO LET HIM INTO THE GAME HE IS READY TO RAGE
 
CHAPO GUZMAN

CHAPO GUZMAN

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I'm hella doin this...

Crowdsourcing Effort Lets Giants Fans Fly World Series Banner Over Dodger Stadium

This is just precious. For the price of a couple of venti-sized lattes, you can poke a Dodgers fan in the eye.

Fuck Yeah! Shut Up, Inc. (FYSU), a group of self-appointed diabolical San Francisco Giants fans, has created a new crowdsourcing project to "celebrate" the club's World Series championship --- at Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles.

The Giants open up the 2011 regular season in LA on March 31 and FYSU Inc. plans to spend $8,000 to fly a banner above Dodger Stadium that says, "Giants 2010 Champs: BEAT LA." The banner will fly over LA for all Doyer fans to see for 80 minutes each during the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday games.

This is where you come in.

Through the beauty of crowdsourcing, you can donate as little as $10 to the cause. Over 60 people (including yours truly) have already anted up (you can actually give as much as your Dodger-hating heart desires). Contributors get their names posted prominently on the site's front page. According to the group's website, the goal is already 41% met.
 
antdogg2390

antdogg2390

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CHAPO GUZMAN said:
I'm hella doin this...

Crowdsourcing Effort Lets Giants Fans Fly World Series Banner Over Dodger Stadium

This is just precious. For the price of a couple of venti-sized lattes, you can poke a Dodgers fan in the eye.

Fuck Yeah! Shut Up, Inc. (FYSU), a group of self-appointed diabolical San Francisco Giants fans, has created a new crowdsourcing project to "celebrate" the club's World Series championship --- at Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles.

The Giants open up the 2011 regular season in LA on March 31 and FYSU Inc. plans to spend $8,000 to fly a banner above Dodger Stadium that says, "Giants 2010 Champs: BEAT LA." The banner will fly over LA for all Doyer fans to see for 80 minutes each during the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday games.

This is where you come in.

Through the beauty of crowdsourcing, you can donate as little as $10 to the cause. Over 60 people (including yours truly) have already anted up (you can actually give as much as your Dodger-hating heart desires). Contributors get their names posted prominently on the site's front page. According to the group's website, the goal is already 41% met.
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Haha that'lll be so fuckin' sick!
 
prodigy91

prodigy91

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that shit is going to be stupid packed, last year i waited 2 fucking hours just to get burriss and bowkers sigs i can only imagine how long it'll be this year...
 
prodigy91

prodigy91

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Pre-FanFest notes: Slimmer Pablo Sandoval learns plate discipline with Barry Bonds, p

in other news,

The folks from “Showtime” already have some compelling footage for their documentary series covering the 2011 Giants – Pablo Sandoval puking his Panda crackers while running sprints in Arizona.

“I’ve got (a scene) already,” said a svelte and smiling Sandoval, on the eve of the team’s FanFest. “Hey, the workouts we do are not easy.”

Aside from minor contract news with GM Brian Sabean and Manager Bruce Bochy – in an obvious move, their 2012 options were picked up by a giddy Bill Neukom — the sight of a slimmer Sandoval was the most interesting development of the Giants’ annual media open house Saturday.

Sandoval has lost 30 pounds of fat since the season ended Nov. 1, said Ryan Morgan, one of his co-representatives. The results on the scale don’t reflect that because he’s also added lean muscle mass while increasing his flexibility, Morgan said.

It’s obvious that Sandoval is in better shape just by looking at him. He still has some belly fat that trainers would like to pare down before position players report to Scottsdale on Feb. 19, but it was a short offseason and club officials, teammates and trainers all said they were encouraged with his progress.

Sandoval couldn’t do one pull-up when he began his fitness program.

“Now he does sets of 10,” Morgan said.

Sandoval is working with three trainers in Arizona, including former U.S. Olympic decathlete Dan O’Brien. He’s also running sprints with Greg “Sweets” Oliver, whom Giants fans might remember as one of Barry Bonds’ personal trainers that the club hired for a few seasons.

Sandoval revamped his eating habits and said he hasn’t touched soda or chips for 2 ½ months. He’s eating five times a day – mostly lean protein and vegetables. And he’s learning a different kind of plate discipline, too.

Through Oliver, he’s had several conversations with Barry Bonds about the importance of waiting for a pitch to drive. Aside from Sandoval’s lack of fitness, his undisciplined approach often led to wasted at-bats last season.

“He told me to throw a punch with my hands at the pitch I’m going to hit,” said Sandoval, who didn’t pick up a bat for two months over the winter.

After all his conditioning and strength work, Sandoval noticed a difference the first time he grabbed a bat following that long layoff. He said it felt lighter in his hands, and he has more energy than in the past.

“I think I’m using Andres Torres’ body right now,” he said.

Sandoval worked out twice a day and had a three-hour break between sessions. He often used one of those hours at the Giants’ minor league complex in Arizona, fielding grounders and working on his agility at third base. Remember, it was Sandoval’s defensive issues, not his lack of hitting, that was most responsible for him losing his starting job in the postseason. Seeing as it opened the door for World Series MVP Edgar Renteria to return to shortstop, the series of events worked out well for the Giants.

Sandoval acknowledged that he wouldn’t automatically go back to being a .330 hitter after addressing his weight and conditioning issues. But Bochy said he is confident the Panda will have a resurgent season.

“He looks great. He took the bull by the horns,” Bochy said. “There’s a little more than goes into (hitting) than that. He’s got to get his confidence and his swagger back, but I think he will. This game is hard to play if you’re in condition. This is going to help him get back to where he wants to be.”

Here are other happenings from today:

–Freddy Sanchez is 100 percent confident he will be in the lineup on opening day following left shoulder surgery – a far more upbeat stance than last year at this time, when he ended up missing nearly two months because of another left shoulder procedure.

His surgery this time was related to the previous operation. He had five internal stitches that were supposed to dissolve over time, but two of them remained intact, and were rubbing against his labrum in a way that caused irritation. So he had one of them clipped and the other removed.

Sanchez said he’s already hitting and doing full baseball work – which makes him far, far ahead of his pace from last year at this time. He expected to be a week or two behind the other hitters this spring, but anticipates playing enough Cactus League games and being ready to go when the season opens March 31 at Dodger Stadium.

–Tim Lincecum has a moustache. I think.

–There were a lot of questions today about the “Showtime” series and how intrusive it’ll be. Two things I’d point out: 1. It’s going to be done by Major League Productions, and the front office and players both will have the right to oversee content. 2. Even Brian Sabean – an old-school guy — agrees it’ll be good exposure for the organization and the players. So I think it’s going to be a pretty sanitized production, and not too different from the “inside the clubhouse” cameras that were in the clubhouse during the 2010 postseason.

–Forgot to mention … Pablo Sandoval went to Venezuela for the Pepsi Home Run Derby there. He finished third. Eliezer Alfonzo won it. Really.
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fucking dope.
 
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