Stick a fork in them……
The Dodgers are done, man. Their collapse really is astounding when you consider the talent they had on that team to start the year. But Kemp got Hollywood-on-the-brain and decided it was more fun to date Rihanna than it was to work on his game. The broken thump slowed down Ethier. And as I said a few weeks ago when I watched him warm up, Broxton is hurt (though they say he’s fine–curious when he’s lost 5 mph off his fastball)……Either way, watching them go down with Torre fanatically pulling strings that are attached to nothing is funny as hell…….
Big series begins for us today–they’re all big from here on out. For some reason I feel like we are going to hit just fine in Philly. If our pitching holds up we could easily win 2 and maybe all 3. Still, I’m taking the over in all three of these games no matter what the number……
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I just said to my son why are they not walking Rollins to get to Utley?
Was your son’s reply, “Don’t worry, dad. Bochy knows what the hell he’s doing.”
Alright, whatever, I’m not gonna waste time arguing about Panda and Jenny Craig in the offseason. Right now, they need to get into the Philly pen and score some more damn runs…
Jenny Craig’s fucking Panda?
Jesus H. After Zitshit’s long inning, he’s gonna be right back out there.
Close your eyes.
So much for answering right back
More like a “no comment.”
Dennis is the best! What game in the last week did Bochy do the same and pitched with an open base? Friday and the Pads?
Yank that cocksucker NOW!
I did want Flav to win some money though…
Fucking Palanco with his 3 hits in now 12-16 off Zito.His next contract should have Zito incentives built in.
Again son, why are they pitching to Victorino?
Frickin’ Casilla can’t replace Zito soon enough . . .
Victorino was motoring . . . Anyone else – they don’t get a double.
Well, that turned to shit in a hurry.
Oswalt’s dealing, and Zito’s flailing . . .
Sorry to say, I did recommend closing your eyes. I say this shit coming after his long inning and our dumbfucks (Buster, Huff and to a lesser extent Pat) swinging and making outs quickly in the top half. *sigh*
As long as he throws strikes. Not exactly what he’s known for.
I don’t remember who said it (Twin?), it doesn’t matter how many runs the Zitman gets, he’ll give ’em right back.
Casilla’s gonna buzz somebody…
Timmy?
I’m not that lucky. He fucking looks like Rapunzel.
Well, Zitfuck is only the latest in a string of choke performances from our starters and it IS fair to wonder how Molina leaving impacts them. Zitcock probably shook Buster off ten times tonight.
Blame it on Buster. Brilliant.
“and it IS fair to wonder how Molina leaving impacts them.”
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Twin, good seeing you on. I commented earlier that Huff should probably be batting behind Burrell with Posey at the three or maybe Panda. What are your thoughts?
I knew 2 runs wasn’t going to win in this bandbox. Plus, the Phils have been playing pretty good lately. Nevertheless, the park can work in the Giants favor too and they can easily come back from this. Casilla did a good job to contain the damage.
Yeah, good to see you Twin (albeit, I am catching up here since my internet was out all day yesterday).
I didn’t blame it on Buster, shitferbrains, I raised the legit question as to how the staff has been impacted by Molina’s depature. Start paying attention to reason instead of blowing your wad over who bats 7th. It’s a topic worthy of discussion, unlike 90 percent of the bullshit thrown out here.
Mike…fair? no. FOUL
Thank You Mr G.
Jose, Jose, Jose ,Jose!
Boo Ya. Yeah Jose. Guy mashes.
One more run right Flav?
Guillen’s paying dividends with that swing! Holy Smokes that was smoked.
All I have to say is that I brought up Guillen’s name in June! I just hope he can keep this swing going.
As far as Huff, maybe he needs a couple days, .170 last 50 AB, 3 RBI.
That AB by Uribe will only help the Giants later in this game.12 pitch marathon.They’ll get to Oswalt next inning if he’s left in.
Shit, Guillen made that look way too easy. . .
Got to get to their pen . . .
2 HR’s, 5 to go……
Zito shaking his catcher off all night long is just another sign of his psychosis. BUster’s been catching and calling great games. The bullpen has been nails for a month and last time I checked he’s calling those pitches too……
Always a chance when Lidge is in. Huff sitting a couple makes sense. Ishi against Blanton should work tomorrow…
I thought we were supposed to win with our starting pitching.:The Giants are guaranteed to go 13 games w/o a win from a starting pitcher. Starters are 0-7 w/5.97 ERA. Make it 0-8 if Zito takes loss.
Need look no further.
Check that, blame Bochy.
I think this was kind of twin’s arguement. He wasn’t “blaming Buster’ but there’s no question this starting 5 haven’t looked as consisteat since Molina left. A lot of the recent wins came from the improved offense
Good point Den . . . I think I brought it up when they were at 11 games w/o a win from the SP.
That’s an oddball stat, Denny. You can’t get a win in a loss.
That’s almost 3 times thru the rotation and not one win from any one of them.
They all forgot how to spell s-t-o-p-p-e-r.
I’m not big on CERA, but when every pitcher is worse with Buster than the other two catchers, it’s a legit question. Whitefuck’s innings aren’t enough with anyone other than Dirty to list him.:
Zito- 2.71 Molina 4.30 Posey
Lincecum 3.23 Molina 4.85 Posey
Cain 2.85 Molina 3.48 Posey
Sanchez (Molina just 4 innings) 4.61 Posey 3.15 Whiteside
Bumgarner 3.27 All Posey
You’re “not big” on CERA? Shit, I recall you saying it was a worthless motherfucking piece of shit stat when somebody said Whitey should catch instead of Bengie because his CERA was much lower.
Last I checked, Buster only catches the ball. He still doesn’t throw it.
The Rollins and Victorino RBI at bats had nothing to do with pitch selection. Both should have been standing at first and Zito should have been pitching to the next guy or been yanked then…
I don’t get why Torres doesn’t try to steal there….
Another Bowker AB from Huff. Terrible.
Poof daddy
you’re not big on CERA? You fucking rail away on anyone who brings it up. Yet when it gives you a chance to rag on Posey, an opportunity you never miss, you start trotting those CERA stats out. What a crock of shit. If you don’t buy into them at all don’t fucking start trotting them out there right now…..
Zitfuck doesn’t have the kind of control to load the bases on purpose, GHead.
The other day, Lincecum threw what he wanted to in the 1st inning, 3 k…then he decided to let Posey call um….
You sure about that, wswin?
Loo doesn’t recognize sarcasm?
I wasn’t into CERA when you fucks were talking Whitehead and his once a week gigs. Molina and Posey both have enough innings with Zitfart, Lincecum, and Cain for it to be valid. And Whitshit/Sanchez is valid because of Sanchezes 100+ innings with Whiteturd.
Fuck you, diispute it with some facts or sit down and zip it up.
The facts are…The SP as a staff has been a dissapointment all year
with the exception of Bum…
this discussion isn’t even starting if you are going to use CERA as a “fact”. Not after the shit everyone took from you when it got brought up earlier this year. And after Molina left the SP was lights out RIGHT AWAY. Krukow was blowing his load to it every week on his morning KNBR show…..
All I brought up in the first place was that it was a legit question. Flavorettte went into attack mode. The numbers actually surpriseed me, under Posey this has been a bottom tier starting group.
Yeah Twin but Flav is right. Anything these days to put Buster down you’re going to use. Fuck the race and or whatever you keep bringing up. A majority of the people here only see Orange and Black. You as well as OSF seem to just want what ever their prediction was, be it on wins, Sabean, players or what ever the fuck you guys want to brag about.
Fuck that.
BF – no need to 86 me, I’ll do it myself.
Every 56 years like Clockwork.
What an undertaker ray is lately…
Guess we know the next reliever going down…
what the fuck do you expect? he’s pitching to Posey.
And by the way Barry (Lawless/firesabean) since you’re stupid enough to use an email address that I can actually track and get some good personal info from why don’t you stop acting like a jackass troll before I do a little more research and release all your personal info to the internet. All your posts are just going into my spam filter anyway…….
Mike is in “attack mode” every chance on Posey….just don’t get it.
the starters have been inconsistent of late early in games. Too many pitches, too many base runners early. I dont think that is on Posey.
Lincecum has issues in his last three starts. Has nothing to do with Posey.
If they were hittng the zone early, the starters would not ha e been throwing so many pitches early.
Why was Ray pitching with bases loaded after getting them loaded in the first place.
Lasyt year Molina caught 1042 innings to Whitecrap’s 314.
This year it’s Molina 458 Buster 330. A valid comparison can be made with those 2010 innings. It cannot with the disparity in 2009. Don’t ever try to go toe to toe with me on stats, logic, numbers, baseball ijn general, or BBQ…
So ya saying ya want Bengie back?
He called for a curveball just now , and the sign said make sure you hang it
Flav, I think the three times I told you to bet, you hit all three…good win on the over….
With those numbers, it HAS to be a question. Especially when you have the circumstantial evidence (rookie, coverted infielder, kept in the minors to learn to call pitches, etc) to support it.
Now … why the veteran pitchers don’t know what to throw, I don’t know. I don’t think Posey caused Lincecum to start throwing the ball every which way, but on the other hand, the number of two-strike and two-out hits does suggest there might be a deficiency in strategy as well as execution.
one word in your whole post is right….the last. execution. It’s on the pitchers.
Fucking Posey caused that balk. Goddamned rookie.
The starting staff is a disappointment? That is a somewhat bizarre assessment. Zito and Sanchez are better than last year, Bumgarner has been a very good addition. Cain is about the same.
Never gonna argue with one who reads # and doesn’t watch games…
None of that tiresome torture tonight … bullpen blows up again.
Isn’t Kevin Towers still available? Probably make a pretty good adviser.
“With those numbers, it HAS to be a question.” No, it doesn’t. cERA is the single fucking stoopidest stat ever devised.
Since many post happened since I did this reply to Twin, I wanted to make sure this was seen.
Yeah Twin but Flav is right. Anything these days to put Buster down you’re going to use. Fuck the race and or whatever you keep bringing up. A majority of the people here only see Orange and Black. You as well as OSF seem to just want what ever their prediction was, be it on wins, Sabean, players or what ever the fuck you guys want to brag about.
Fuck that.
BF – no need to 86 me, I’ll do it myself.
Click.
Team turned into the 3 Stooges this inning!
Nice to see we kept ramirez around, to never pitch while our bench is bare, and then we get to see himvin all his glory tonight. Oh well, game was over anyway….
What a debacle.
What thing is certain. The pen has thrown way too many innings lately.
Well, if yer gonna fuck it all up, might as well get it all out in one game. . . .
Twin, you are comparing a fresh staff from the first couple of months to a more tired staff. Not comparable. If Molina was still there, there is no guarantee the staff would be better than with Posey catching? What is that called? Proving a negative with a negative…
1-0 SD, top of the 6th . . .
Can we get a little help?
Posey needs a day off.
Ghead thought it to be “attack mode” when I pointed out with total irrefutable statistical support, that Posey hit a lot of ground balls. Stating facts is not “attack mode”.
The decline of ALL FOUR of the starters from the beginning of the year and the startling disparity of their performances under Posey vs. Molina may or may not be on the catcher. But it is, again., something that needs to be addressed.