tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155546862024-03-07T00:46:59.411-08:00Almost EEEEEE!Now famously inactive, <i>EEEEEE!</i> (at <a href="http://EEEEEEgp.com">EEEEEEgp.com</a>) will always be chock-full of past articles and season notes. We welcome you now to a long-sought-after blog for annoyed (or any other kind of) San Francisco Giants fans.Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-71446106087877188552010-12-18T13:51:00.000-08:002010-12-18T13:51:06.890-08:00This blog is sort of inactive, but...My new material, such as it is, can now be found at my
Ruin Your Eyes website. Occasional announcements and other stuff will show up on the companion blog.Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-8747322090602132382009-07-26T18:56:00.000-07:002009-07-26T19:05:26.896-07:00The Horror of the GAPASGNRTHappily, we’ve come to the end of the Giants’ Annual Post-All-Star-Game Nightmare Road Trip. They probably were lucky to go 3-7, because for the most part, they stank. There was even a sort of “Uh-oh” feeling in the first radio and TV broadcasts after the break, as if the announcers were trying not to say, “Here it comes. Again.”You might be surprised that in the Giants’ 52-year history in San Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-70589442847996861172009-07-14T19:01:00.000-07:002009-07-14T19:17:55.302-07:00Hometown Hero… Complete Dingleberry… It’s a Fine LineBoy, I sure am glad I rushed home to make sure not to miss Tim Lincecum’s first pitch in the first inning of his first All-Star Game. Well, his first pitch was fine—better than the Barak Obama’s, anyway—but not a lot of the subsequent ones were, at least in the first. Because he hates me, Ichiro Suzuki naturally led off with a two-strike single. And then Lincecum bounced a change-up off of Derek Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-58583154512632362082009-07-12T13:11:00.000-07:002009-07-12T13:20:53.545-07:00The Giants Could Win a World Series!It could happen! Really! Know why? Because within the last several months:A Giant has won a Cy Young AwardA Giant has pitched a no-hit, no-run gameI got a jobIt’s as if three of the Four Horsemen have already appeared, and we’re just waiting for Famine to show up—that’d be “Famine,” as in what Giants fans in general have gone through since 1954, and what San Francisco Giants fans in particular Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-77092175135136148932009-06-07T15:17:00.000-07:002009-06-07T15:25:22.574-07:00Not the Giants, ReallyI am not a soccer fan. It wasn’t part of my home life growing up. When they had us playing it in school, I wasn’t good at it. It’s not the Giants. I only ever saw it on TV when KTEH in San Jose would show prerecorded matches from England, featuring Mario Machado at the mike. When I watched this, it was because Monty Python or something was going to be on next. I remember no teams or players, Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-10751116735547381812009-05-27T12:52:00.000-07:002009-05-27T12:57:27.806-07:00Kuip Pumps Seven!Among my newsfeeds are Henry Schulman’s Giants blog and the Giants section from the Chronicle, the Mercury’s Andrew Baggarly’s Giants blog, and ESPN.com’s baseball page—which rarely tells me anything interesting.Last night Tim Lincecum—who, I should emphasize, won the National League Cy Young Award in 2008—pitched eight innings of a 4-0 win over the Braves. This is what the ESPN newsfeed had to Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-50883773094850960692009-05-24T23:19:00.000-07:002009-05-24T23:20:57.705-07:00Random GrumpingLincecum. Cain. Sandoval. Those are the only players on the Giants’ 25-man roster whom I insist that they keep, and as much as I like him, I’m not entirely positive about Sandoval. But what do we hear today? Brian Sabean’s after somebody who can freakin’ hit. Well, that’s good, but the other part is that supposedly he’s shopping Cain. Well, heck, it could be worse: it could be Lincecum.Part of Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-6577577719737781312009-05-08T13:52:00.000-07:002009-05-08T14:02:18.572-07:00All Right, I Did ItAs threatened, and with little better to do, I ran an Out Of the Park Baseball simulation wherein I took the reins of a team that batted its pitcher eighth all year. That is, I ran one fictional, eight-team league, in which the pitcher batted eighth for my team, the Steamers. (The game came up with that name randomly. Since “steamer” has acquired a rude and widespread connotation, and is Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-15008767344394369482009-05-08T12:47:00.000-07:002009-05-08T12:48:48.225-07:00More Bullpen StuffIn case you failed to read the comments on my last couple of pieces about relievers, saves, and pitching staff size (in which case: shame on you), EEEEEE! staffer (I refuse to say “former”) David Malbuff responded to (not “former” either) EEEEEE! staffer David Beck’s comment about “Why not have 14-man staffs, all relievers?” David M. says, “I’m on the other side of this one. (Yes, I still exist.)Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-68186735479351506982009-04-29T22:11:00.000-07:002009-04-29T22:21:04.392-07:00Oh, No Need to Listen to MeNot that it matters all that much, but Brian Wilson had to finish off the eighth inning in a moderate pressure situation. In the ideal world described in my last post—okay, I didn’t call it an ideal world, because in an ideal world, the San Francisco Giants would have won at least one World Series by now—Wilson would have hit the showers with his teammates’ thanks and the knowledge of a job well Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15504869012965140524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-10997586592748489562009-04-26T17:05:00.001-07:002009-04-26T17:05:37.065-07:00“Theme” My BippyWhen Matt Cain left today’s game with a 4-1 lead, broadcasters Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper were aglow about how, for a change, this year’s “theme” was, “Score Runs for Cain.” The Giants had a number of opportunities to score more than four, but they went into the ninth with that three-run lead, which Brian Wilson coughed up in a heartbeat, leading to extra innings. At this point, hey, the GiantsGregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-7155615889460353622009-04-13T15:36:00.000-07:002009-04-13T15:40:48.850-07:00Cellllll-a-brate Good Times, Come On!Randy Johnson’s career numbers in Dodger Stadium were something like 17-0 with a 0.13 ERA, so it goes without saying that he’d get doused in an accelerant and lit up today. The man looks completely lost out there—well, not anymore, as he’s now leaving the game with two out in the fourth. Yet again, the Giants go after a significant player—about 10 years too late. (I’m thinking here of guys like Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-38336918704279599342009-04-07T16:05:00.000-07:002009-04-07T16:15:40.067-07:00It’s 9-5 in the Seventh, but...Know what bothers me?Bengie Molina’s astounding lack of speed and the fact that lots of pitches seem to get by him. No, I’m not all snitty because he won’t be stealing any bases.Geez, Pablo Sandoval will swing at anything, won’t he?Brian Wilson, Bobby Howry, Joe Martinez, and Brandon Medders, and Merkin Valdez. Jeremy Affeldt and Alex Hinshaw. That’s five righthanded relievers and two lefties. I Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-62392116712503231182009-04-07T15:52:00.000-07:002009-04-07T16:04:29.828-07:00Let No One Say I Didn’t Post on Opening DayI hate when work gets in the way of the ballgame, especially on Opening Day or something of even more importance.Perhaps I should clarify: No, I’m not working yet, but I’m trying to be, with many of today’s hours being devoted to finding a job. By the time I realized that the game would be on (assuming it wasn’t rained out, as had been feared), it was 2 o’clock, and Tim Lincecum had just finishedGregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-25624134427946612352008-11-17T18:51:00.000-08:002008-11-17T18:53:48.408-08:00Preeping Toward A Championshipby Cudgy PreepEditor’s note: Once again, Cudgy Preep steps into the breech (which makes a nauseating squishy sound), donning the mantle of your humble Almost EEEEEE! correspondent—a mantle trimmed with ermine and hand-stitched using silk thread soaked in the tears of Giants fans who are still pissed off about the 2002 World Series. Preep, whose real name also isn’t Bat Fastard, often gets a lot Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-63605175546409594992008-10-29T23:41:00.000-07:002008-10-29T23:49:13.657-07:00The Inevitable Forestalled—For the Time BeingThe Tampa Bay Rays did not win the 2008 World Series. Now we won’t have to worry for 11 months about some upstart claiming a ring before the Giants. Let me be the first to say: Hurrah.Tonight my friend Steven Rubio posted a blog article, titled “51 Years and Counting,” that echoes what I’ve been saying for years. I’d have to look through my three billion pages of EEEEEE! archives to see if I Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-26256036843833206432008-10-19T22:46:00.000-07:002008-10-19T23:09:06.825-07:00Hatin’ Them Rays Right NowIf you’ve spent any time talking baseball with me or reading my stuff, you know that one of my tiny little pet peeves is the fact that the San Francisco Giants have staunchly refused to win even a single World Series in the entire 50 years of their existence. Now, yes, I too am aware that they spent lots of years in New York, where they won a handful of World Championships, but that’s the New Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-29665840832627293682008-10-01T14:35:00.000-07:002008-10-01T14:45:15.364-07:00Sort of a PostmortemThe Giants stink. This is not news, as you know, but it needs to be said. They are, however, entertaining at times—those times, for the most part, being after July 31—which is saying something. Tim Lincecum, Bengie Molina, Omar Vizquel, Eugenio Velez, Aaron Rowand, Brian Wilson—they’re all interesting to watch, though not always for good reasons, but that makes them no less entertaining. That’s Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-68307015346758262822008-09-27T21:04:00.000-07:002008-09-29T17:40:44.580-07:00Witnessed Firsts, or Look! A Blog Entry!Watch a ballgame every day, and you’ll see something you haven’t seen before. You’ve heard that hundreds of times, and you’ve never believed it. But if you limited your sample size to games number 160 and 161 of the 2008 season for the Giants and Dodgers, you’ve become a believer. I have, anyway, because stuff happened in each game that I’d never seen before, and I’m really glad to have had the Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-49456086459842689362008-05-21T07:32:00.000-07:002008-05-21T07:33:53.255-07:00Blarg!Read Dave Zirin’s latest column about Barry Bonds. I order you. Zirin’s written a lot about Bonds, and he isn’t what I would call a staunch defender of Bonds so much as a staunch defender of the notion that the knee-jerk vilification of the guy is moronic.Essentially, Zirin makes the point that Bonds isn’t on a team right now due to collusion on the part of club owners—in other words, he’s being Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-27833767599450204772008-04-02T11:09:00.000-07:002008-04-02T11:11:31.275-07:00“Muse Muse,” he MusedRemember the 1996 Giants? Of course not—you’re not an idiot. You took all necessary and judicious steps to wipe them from your mind. I, on the other hand, remember them—or, at least, whenever I feel a queasy kind of heartburn, I think of them. But you know what? With the 1996 Giants, at least there was some hope that somehow they could pull out of their yearlong swan-dive.There was! The team had Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-3599014721651607732008-04-01T17:50:00.000-07:002008-04-01T17:51:12.322-07:00The 2008 Giants! What Fun!This blog sprang to life late in the 2006 season. My website, EEEEEE!, mostly had been collecting dust since the 2002 World Series, and I wanted to get myself back into the habit of writing about the Giants several times a week. Those of you who have stuck with EEEEEE! (or even this blog) from the beginning know that hasn’t happened. I’m a little disappointed with myself, but I’m not rending any Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-79092753253329217602007-08-07T21:52:00.000-07:002007-08-07T21:54:19.330-07:00I Hate When They Pull Him in the Sixth with a One-Run LeadAs of today, August 7, 2007, the all-time home run champion for a career is Barry Bonds. Not:Hank AaronBabe Ruth“Barry Bonds *”It is Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants.To restate: The person who has hit the most home runs in a major league baseball career is Barry Bonds. I should also point out that the person who has hit the most home runs in a major league baseball season is Barry Bonds.I Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-56784466921739318532007-07-10T19:36:00.000-07:002007-07-10T20:02:04.455-07:00All-Star Spluttitude!Okay, we all know that the whole Major League Baseball All-Star Extravaganza is awfully silly these days, what with the Fox Network and its football-style coverage, the endless hype, ballplayers as animated by The Simpsons animators, and the completely unnecessary pomp and grandeur normally associated with presidential coronations or a Super Bowl. But there I was, living with it, having turned onGregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15554686.post-78818986488943128962007-07-10T11:09:00.000-07:002007-07-10T11:24:46.565-07:00From Rubio and MeWith Steven Rubio’s kind permission, I’m reproducing two of his recent blog entries at http://begonias.typepad.com/srubio/, partly because his stuff’s always dead on and insightful, but also because I responded at length—as is my wont, poor creature—rather than just putting it all on this blog, which might have made more sense.We begin with “giants at the break”:Might as well spend a bit of time Gregg Pearlmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119422869380708317noreply@blogger.com0