Watching last night’s game against the Diamondbacks, and the eventual celebration that took place, left me with a funny feeling. As I tweeted during the game, I found it supremely appropriate that Aubrey Huff, a leader of the 2010 team, but a huge liability this season, made the last out by flying out weakly to center. Oh, the difference a year can make…. Read more →
Well, the clock is ticking, isn’t it? The Giants are down by 4 games and two teams in the wildcard and are six out with six to play in the division. They are a couple losses away from having wasted another year of excellent pitching. If they had just scraped together 4 more wins over the season, they would at… Read more →
Grey bars = league worst, orange bars = league best Does Brian Sabean know what makes an offense tick? I think this is one of the most common indictments of Brian Sabean as a general manager. As an organization, the Giants have been known to value things like batting average, runs batted in, and from what I can tell, they… Read more →
The statement: phbbbbbttttghhhhttt Baseball is a game where anything can happen. The games — on a one by one basis — are little tiny pockets of chaos, but generally, over the long haul of the regular season, things balance out. The Giants losing a season series to the Astros isn’t impossible. After all, the thing is, it happened, but when… Read more →
Here’s a list of players on the Giants 25 man roster whom I’m pretty sure are worse hitters than Orlando Cabrera Chris Stewart Nate Schierholtz in a boot Jeremy Affeldt Madison Bumgarner Matt Cain Santiago Casilla Steve Edlefsen Tim Lincecum Javier Lopez Guillermo Mota Ramon Ramirez Leading off is a pretty important job. You get the most at-bats over the… Read more →
Exactly two weeks ago, the Giants were in first place by four games. Then, a lot of bad baseball happened. Now they are a full game out of first, and probably should thank the Diamondbacks for being so polite as to not run away with the division while the Giants were busy being terrible. So, what has gone wrong? Let’s… Read more →
Maybe it’s the lowered expectations talking, but I was not terribly angry to watch that one slip away. For one thing, Lincecum was good and put his rough stretch another game behind him. For another, I’ve become apathetic to the failures of the Giant offense. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, Giant hitters gotta fish for a first pitch slider…. Read more →
Scoring runs is hard… Before Wednesday night’s game, the Giants sat atop the National League West division with a record of 27-20 despite a run differential of negative (-) one. But, we’ll leave worrying about that for another day. They’ll have played 48 games after tonight. Prior to the first of May, the Giants had played 26 games, and they’d… Read more →