IGD: Padres vs Giants (9 Apr 07)
first pitch: 7:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Chris Young (0-0, 4.76 ERA) vs Matt Cain (0-0, 4.50 ERA)
previews: Padres.com | SI.com
Chris Young graduated from Princeton University. According to the delightful and sometimes accurate Wikipedia, here are some other famous Princeton grads:
- Moe Berg – baseball player and spy (one of the most fascinating characters ever to play the game)
- Jeff Bezos – founder of Amazon.com
- Bill Bradley – former basketball star, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, former U.S. Senator
- Aaron Burr – 3rd Vice President of the United States (and answer to milk commercial trivia question)
- Dean Cain – actor
- Ethan Coen – director
- David Duchovny – actor
- Richard Feynman – Nobel laureate (Physics 1965)
- Steve Forbes – son of Malcolm Forbes (also a Princeton grad), businessman and publisher of Forbes magazine
- Stanley Jordan – jazz guitarist (and an insanely talented one at that — I know you think you’re sick of the song, but check out his version of “Stairway to Heaven” if you want your mind blown)
- James Madison, 4th President of the United States
- W.S. Merwin – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator
- Queen Noor of Jordan – Her Majesty Queen of Jordan
- Syngman Rhee – 1st president of the Republic of Korea
- Brooke Shields – model/actress
- Jimmy Stewart – actor
- George F. Will – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Woodrow Wilson – 28th President of the United States
Sometimes you get insight here at Ducksnorts; other times, you get whatever the heck this is. Go Padres!
Nice recovery Bardo.
2 hits and a win. Our pitching is ridiculous.
Actually, Mark…We Win! Nice job by Shakespeare to keep the ball playable for the out.
sorry Boston …. we love Bard !! and Cla
Welcome to all the newcomers……see ya’ll here tomorrow night. Good night everyone…
So, Bochy’s in-game management finally won us a game. hahahaha
Ahh, a fitting end- Trevor with the K on a change (I think), and Feliz chases a pitch way out of the strike zone. That right there is why the Padres are 5-2 and the Giants are 1-6.
good night all .. this is a great site .. I will have to thank Matty for calling it out on the broadcast ….
nothing better than watching a game with friends /////
I was ready to fill in for ya Kevin…but glad I didn’t have to.
Sweet game. Sweet win. I so badly want Trevor to get to 500 before Bonds gets to Aaron.
Check out the IGD at McCoveyChronicles.com if you want to enjoy the misery that is a Giant fan’s existence.
This has been some of the best pitching I’ve ever seem to start the season. Great pitching from every guy on the staff and just enough offense to scratch out the W.
410: OMG, I totally will check that out. Damn, I’m such a heartless bastard.
A nervous wreck of a heartless bastard. I don’t know if I can do another 150+ games of this.
No problem. I did it from work.
409: Before? How about instead?
412: You’re a heartless bastard? I’m over there rubbing it in.
415: LOLOLOL… please don’t man. You know the giants are gonna win one or two of their games against us this year and I wouldn’t want to see retaliatory posts in here.
412: You want real fun, wait until we play the Dodgers. They tend towards some rather colorful language in the IGD when we’re beating their brains in.
The Ch4 post game guys are defending Bochy based on the fact that he’d already made the poor decision to let his pitcher go for a 7 inning no-no instead of playing for a win.
415: Dude, you ready for some real evil genius… you don’t go over there and rub it in. You go over there and pretend you’re a Giants fan and just spread the pessimism on as thick as you can without getting caught.
A great great post of theirs…
“I don’t know computer magic, but I think we should do a temporary site re-design and devote our collective awesomeness to blogging about Fresno only until this “major league” team does something right.
I am 100% not joking.”
Help me please.
Great Job tonight Pads
Anyhow, what I need is to find this game I remember watching as a kid. I still remember it as the greatest game I ever saw. It was at the Murph, and it was against a non-division opponent I think, either the cubs or Mets. The last inning Steve Finley, who also scored the only run, robbed the second batter of a game tying homerun, and went over the wall to get it. Final score, pads 1- opponent-0. Anyone able to help me?
I’m enjoying this so much I think I’ll post a few more of the great comments over on the Giants blog. Stop me if this gets annoying…
“You know who has to be really upset? Clay Hensley.
Since he’s the only guy to lose to this clown show of a lineup, I expect him to be extra motivated tomorrow. In other words, we’ll score no runs on negative two hits.”
“It’s about time for Grant to post a the picture of a cute animal and threaten to kill it if the Giants fail to score/lose again.
I vote for a puppy. Kitten’s already been done.”
“Cain’s going to finish his career with a 89-201 record with a 2.92 ERA if he stays on this team. I just know it.”
“We’d be pretty good if we didn’t suck so bad.”
421: Those guys are pretty great.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/comments/2007/4/9/192341/6430/455#455
We’re getting along famously.
One last comment before I head off to bed…
I really hope mlb.com has for one of their highlights that match up between Cla and Bonds. That was as impressive and as incredible of a moment as any diving catch or well hit ball.
ANOTHER GREAT GAME! ANOTHER GREAT IGD! SEE YE’ALL TOMORROW!
For those keeping track…ESPN news showed Bonds walking in the first but not striking out in the eighth. C’mon, get your marketing right… everyone outside of NoCal would rather see the Box strike out.
Richard, way to be… you’re saying what some of us are still thinking…
Word on Kouzmanoff? I’m sure will be better known tomorrow, might be day to day..
also Chris Young getting an extension and now word that Mike Cameron might get a deal… thoughts?
maybe that extra payroll mentioned a few days ago in the local papers is being used not only to get the amateurs but also lock up the players the Padres want to keep long term.
Are there links to this Cameron and Young stuff?
427: Yeah.
Right here.
426: Thanks. I think.
Glad to hear CY got an extension.