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    You Know It's That Time Again When.; A Baseball Thread
    Topic Started: Mar 22 2005, 12:35 AM (135 Views)
    Samthewise7
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    Ah yes, It's that time again folks, that time where you break out your Baseball Caps, get your glove out and play some Baseball. Or of course if you are like me you break out your Baseball Cap you lay on the couch and you watch these two guys do games on TV.

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    Who are those guys you ask? Well they are Kruk and Kuip aka Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, well anyway these guys rock! They make Baseball a blast to watch and if you ever get the chance to hear these guys do a game for the San Francisco Giants on FSN Bay Area then you are lucky my friend. Anyway since it is Baseball Season just about I thought I would post some great Kruk and Kuip quotes and also post some great moments in Giants History since I am a Giants fan. :P

    Swing and a miss Grab Some Pine Meat! - Mike Krukow

    Swing and a high drive deep to Center Field and that ball is outta here! - Duane Kuiper

    That's the ballgame and as always have a good night everybody! - Duane Kuiper

    More great baseball quotes to come soon. Also I will edit this thread throughout the entire Baseball season with great moments in Giants History! Heck who knows maybe I'll post a Baseball Blog here during the season.

    Well with all of that said you can say I am a die hard Giants fan, anyway do you get excited about Opening Day in Baseball at all? If so what team do you like and what are some of your teams best moments in history?

    Sam's Top 100 Greatest Moments In Giants History!

    Hello and welcome to my special section on my top 100 favorite moments in Giants History! Now each day from here on out I will try to post a moment in Giants History that i either enjoyed watching highlights of or that I have heard about.

    100: That Crazy Crab of Doom!

    Ah yes, who could forget the Crazy Crab. You see the Crazy Crab was an Anti-Mascot for the Giants during the 80s. At that time the Giants were one of the worst teams in the league, they only won 60 games a season on average during that decade.

    So in a way fans and players vented out all their fustrations on this poor Crazy Crab mascot.

    Here's an artcle from sfgiants.com about the Crazy Crab.

    The '70s may have brought us bell bottoms and disco, but they also saw the beginnings of the mascot craze in professional baseball. In 1984, the Giants decided to try their hand at the mascot game, but with their own special twist: They created an "anti-mascot."

    The creature they unleashed was the now-legendary (and infamous) Crazy Crab. The idea was to poke fun at traditional mascots, and television commercials depicted manager Frank Robinson having to be restrained from attacking the poor crustacean. Fans were encouraged to boo and hiss the phony mascot, who was portrayed by actor Wayne Doba.

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    Poor Crazy Crab Is Shown Here Running Away From Giants Fans and Players Alike.

    The prodding worked all too well. With a 96-loss season soothing no souls, Crazy Crab became the object of hatred and abuse. The crowd would hurl all sorts of things at the beast, both verbally and literally, and even players got into the act, dumping drinks and other things into the suit.

    Broadcasters Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, both players during the year of Crazy Crab, were asked in an online chat if they ever had trouble with him. Their response: "No, we used to drill him with the resin bag daily, so he was scared of us."

    Catcher Steve Nicosia once donned the suit while he trashed the volatile Jeffrey Leonard's locker. While playing the Crab, Doba was even tackled by a San Diego Padres player and ended up filing a lawsuit against the team for back injuries.

    On the final day of the 1984 season, as he stood on the field in the suit before the game, Doba reportedly told a Giants executive, "I hope there's nobody up there with a gun."

    The nightmare for the bug-eyed object of foam derision ended after just one season. The Giants would not attempt another mascot, "anti" or real, until 1997, when Lou Seal made his cautious debut. But no mascot will likely ever again as sharply define the term "love-hate" as the vaunted Crazy Crab.

    Sam's Take On The Poor Crazy Crab:

    Lol this has always been a funny story for every Giants fan. My take on the Poor Crazy Crab is this. I feel bad for the Crazy Crab, I mean he got pelted with stuff and he got booed at all the time. Then again the Giants were terrible back in the 80s. So if you were the guy who took this job you should have ran as far away as you possibly could before it was too late. :P

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    The Crazy Crab Currently Resides Hidden Some Where In Candlestick Park San Francisco.
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    So there are no good baseball fans here? *is shocked* :P
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    CMJ23
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    Matt and CTT are n00bs!!!!
    Samthewise7
    Mar 22 2005, 06:51 PM
    So there are no good baseball fans here? *is shocked* :P

    Well, what about me?
    The best baseball anouncer quote is: "Slam-a-lama-DING DONG!!! It's a HOME RUN!"
    LETS GO BO-SOX!!!!!!!!!!!
    A repeat will make those little Yankee *censored* cry in shame.
    I say it all the time, but no one believes me that the Yanks are Cursed.
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    CMJ23
    Mar 22 2005, 08:58 PM
    Samthewise7
    Mar 22 2005, 06:51 PM
    So there are no good baseball fans here? *is shocked* :P

    Well, what about me?
    The best baseball anouncer quote is: "Slam-a-lama-DING DONG!!! It's a HOME RUN!"
    LETS GO BO-SOX!!!!!!!!!!!
    A repeat will make those little Yankee *censored* cry in shame.
    I say it all the time, but no one believes me that the Yanks are Cursed.

    Best baseball anouncer quote for the best team: GO CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I'm Awesome.
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    well, i dont like baseball, but now i love that crab! i wish i had crabs :unsure: *is joking*
    Ron Paul in '08
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    Go 'Los Angeless Angels of Anihiem'.
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