TMoney

MVP of the series so far? The Giants bullpen. Outside of Bum, every starting pitcher in this series has been toast. With the exception of game 2 the pen has been lights out all post season. I still can't believe we won the 18 inning game. Also, nice to see Buster step up and play like the superstar he is. Man are the Giants ever lucky to have him. He is the fulcrum the rest of the team pivots around.

Congrats to KC. Hopefully a few days rest cools them off a bit.

Phew. Did not want to lose that one. First game I've ever seen won by bunt-off.

Day game? No problem! Fox Sports Go app working like a charm.

I'm trying to get some tickets for Wednesday or Thursday night, but damn are people ever asking a lot. For the price of 4 good seats I could practically go out and get a 70" TV.

Ouch. Great game. Sucks to lose.

One down for the Giants, three to go. Can we change Pablo Sandoval's name to Senor Octobre? That was a balk, but thankfully the game wasn't close enough that it really mattered all that much. I kind of enjoyed the alternative broadcast, although I felt myself switch over the the regular broadcast early in the game. The alternative broadcast struggled early with focusing on the game action during high leverage situations, but they got quite a bit better as the game went on.

I liked the Rolling Thunder Revue, but this one is better:

I'm actually going to miss the Smoltz-Vasgersian announcing team. What a breath of fresh air they are. Smoltz is humble and easily relateable. Vasgersian calls a clean game and gets excited at the right times. They are so much nicer to listen to than the general awfulness of Joe Buck and Tim McDoofus. I thought Smoltz as the color-man was a nice change of pace from the gasbag that is our local color-man, Mike Krukow. Kruk is great for getting people in to the game, but his shtick wears thin after 15 years of watching Giants games.

The Giants may need a new 3rd base coach. Second time this series Posey gets cut down at home.

This Bryce Harper kid is good to quite good.

Listening to this for the first time on Spotify. I was late to the Spotify party, but now I'm hooked. Whoa... so different. I like it?

For DVD/Blu-Ray ripping I use MakeMKV. Works like a champ. As for MS Office alternatives that very much depends on your workflows.

Dammit, Tyll. Your X2 review has me intrigued. As a longtime HD600 lover I figured I have to give them a try. I ordered a pair for the office.

Make one amp to rule them all and then make another amp to rule the first amp. This is head-case, dammit. If it isn't overkill what is the point?

I have the same worry as well. As a precaution, I've started putting them back in their box when they are not being used.

I'm really happy the AL representative is going to be someone new. Good luck to both teams. Partial to B'more as I went to college in Annapolis and caught a lot of games at Camden, but I can't really root against the Royals given what that fan base has had to go through.

I finished The Roosevelts this morning. Ken Burns will always be better know for Jazz, The Civil War and Baseball, but man... this one might have just been his best yet. Watch it. It is the best thing you will see on TV all year.

I'm fairly certain this is what happened. They've been sitting on a high shelf unused for a few weeks. Is there anything I can do about dust/dirt other than send them in for servicing? The 9s seem quite a bit more difficult to take apart than the 7s. UPDATE: Testing the dust theory, I unplugged them and sprayed some compressed air at the offending driver. Problem solved, I think. The squeal is gone.

I don't blame the Nats manager for pulling Zimmerman for his closer. That is a totally defensible move that just happened to backfire. I do, however blame him and Cabrera for getting themselves tossed arguing balls and strikes. What a stupid and selfish thing to do. They let their emotions get the better of them and they absolutely hurt their teams chances of winning. Especially Cabrera. He took a power bat out of the lineup. Bochy time and again had the Giants pitch around other Nats to go after Cabrera's light hitting replacement. What an absolute mistake. Never mind the fact that the pitch tracker showed they were strikes anyways. Even if the pitches were way outside, you have to keep your head and keep yourselves in the game there.

That was incredible! What an intense game! Easily the most fun I've had watching the giants since game 1 of the 2012 World Series when Pablo single handedly killed Verlander and the Tigers. Hats off to the Nationals. They battled till the end.

Who ever loses this one is just going to be crushed. Just crushed.

This Giants Nats game is madness.

I'm pretty sure its the 9s, but I'll see if I can wrangle up a second pair of stats just to be sure. The squeal is low volume and high frequency. Almost like the chittering of an insect. It is only on the right side. Both sides can still play music but the squeal is there regardless of whether music is playing or not as long as the 9s are plugged in.

So I plugged in my 009s for the first time in a few weeks and there was a squeal in one of the drivers. I unplugged them right away. I'm guessing my only option here is to send them in to Yamas/Accuphase/StaxUSA or whatever else they call themselves now? I bought them back in 2011/12 when the first came out so I highly doubt they are still under warranty.