Uh oh…..Zito…..
Well, that didn’t work. Bochy and the Giants had everything aligned last night but the stars. And now we turn to….HIM. You guys already know about fake hustle. Ever heard of fake confidence? That’s what I’m rollin’ with today. I found one stat that can fuel my fake confidence, at least for a day: Zito in October for his career: 4 starts, 2-0, 2.70 ERA, .212 batting average against…….
I’m really more worried about the hitting than Zit(uh)0 They were tighter than a drum last night. Franchez looked like he was on 10 tabs of adderall when he stepped to the plate. These guys have GOT to chill out and manage their adrenaline better. Baseball is a game played with squashed emotion, not unbridled emotion. I think he’s a chump but Stauffer has been very good lately. We could be headed for another 1-0, 2-1 deal and all that’s going to do is continue to build up tension, edginess and anxiety— not too easy to hit when that’s happening either…….
Going into last night this was just way too easy, wasn’t it? You don’t base your entire season on torture and then just saunter into the post season with a few games to spare– this could get much uglier before it gets better. The next few days could feel like a lifetime……..
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one hit through 4
there’s that number again
Zito, Rowand, and Rent are all gone, one way or the other.
Aren’t the Giants also assured of at least a playoff for the WC if the Braves lose today?
don’t think of that….let the game play out…baggs sorts it all out…check his blog yesterday…i didn’t read the scenarios…just want to win a game this week end
I’ll think of, post, and say what I like.
as it should be
if you took what i said as a personal insult, you really are a sick unit.
I didn’t say it was a “personal insult”.
I was neglect in my duties of bashing today’s lineup so I’ll shoulder the Blame.
OK,time to make some noise.
ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………………….
Shit,m this coming down to Timmy Jim on Monday?
Come on fuckwads, time to get some shit across the plate . . .
Alright Giants, time to put up five.
if they can’t win 1 of 3 at home…they don’t deserve to play monday
Well, we’d probably let them play anyway, moron.
i’m inclined to ignore you when you get personal…which is far too much fuckwad
Holy bats, batman, it is so sad when you can’t trust your own offence.
Can you believe this guy has a one hit shutout going on
Shutout? Did you say shutout, Bozo?
Next at bat Den, we’ll talk about this again.
Maybe the Giants cold use a motivational speech from Singletary right about now.
Well, the Niners have tuned him out.
I say big titty women win this one. The hitters got to think big titties
shit, if he’d been thinking big titties he would have sunk back into the warm cleavage and drilled that ball over the center fielder’s head
Can we have Bengie back?
Out hit by their pitcher . . .
Giants Jimmy Raye offense today isn’t gonna cut it.
So I just realized that this guy Stauffer has only allowed one hit and NO runs. Can you believe it? NO runs. He hasn’t let five runs and ten hits at all today.
NO runs don’t ya say? Can’t believe he’s allowed NO runs. NO runs is pretty damn impressive.
Fuck me
thats some call….strike 3
Shit. Posey is now a rowandesque 3 for his last 29.
Wow. Bad time to get a shitty call . . .
Shitty call? It is time, Gs, string together some hits.
The only thing shitty was Buster’s entire AB.
Bad time to miss two hit-mes and watch one on the paint.
Can’t be taking pitches that close in this particular situation. Bochy just got the heavho
Rowand might be gone. Zito? You’re crazy..
Juan-Gone!
Was Orson doggin’ that shit? Why isn’t he on 2nd.
No, he wasn”t dogging it. It was hit too hard. They showed the replay.
like I said: eating Zito’s contract has to be very difficult.
And I think he is theonly finesse pitcher with the whole other starting 5 strike out pitchers.
Edddd, that is a brand-new definition for “finesse.” Fuckesse, yes; finesse; nope.
Magic Inside.
It’s showtime my thirsty Giants (sorry Dennis).
Torture wasn’t for 159 games you guys, it was for the full 162. And maybe 164…..
OK, if this all holds, the Giants can actually clinch the WC by just about game time tomorrow.
braves lose today and tomorrow…giants are in. win Nl west lose wc
WC now doesn’t sound too appealing right now.
Sanchez is going to come up big and we’ll get to the punk Latos.
Getting in any way, any how, sounds good.
OK GIANTS
Ring (the) Bell time.
Might as well make it torture for all 162 . . .
oooooooooooooooooo-rrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-bayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
huh
C’mon ya lovable fat bastard. Crack one here…
Orson delivers! Keep it going…
Great time for a texas leaguer.Get the tying run to the plate.All you can ask for.Come on Panda!
Yes Sir!!! Panda!
Have they mentioned Bell is vulnerable having worked 4 straight days?
Fucking Guillen!
well
FUCK!
Damn.
Fuck the Gimp. Should have been sending Ford!
Jesus H. Christ! I can feel the noose tightening around my fucking neck. This blows!
Man. Just no fucking words. Enough guillen. Forever.
A lot of heart. A lot of heart. I feel cautiously neurotically quasi-semi apprehensively pessimistically optimistic about tomorrow. Sort of. Maybe. We do have heart. We won’t give up.
So much for wearing my “lucky” Giants t-shirt today. I’ll have to invent sumthin’ new for tomorrow.
Yeah I had my 1987 Best of the West Champion tee on. Maybe I’ll switch to the Krukow jersey. The tee was a bit small on me anyway.
damn
midnight here would have been a great finish.
not finesse and never to be.
How did one of three become so difficult?
Wow. San Francisco is a really beautiful city
Next year. No more Guillen. Eat Zito’s contract. Too much heartbreak. Wonderful job by the Bullpen.
Like I said 2002 all over again!!! The Pads have owned the Giants all year. They wait till this fucking series to have their bats wake up!! Of course when you have a Batting practice pitcher throwing to you of course the bats are going to wake up!! If the Giants pitchers can’t handle this playoff type pressure how would they do in the real playoffs?? Same way with there hitting, what a fucking time to not score runs!
It’s up to Sanchez now.
true, in that you’re either up to the pressure or not
I see us winning tomorrow…or ATL losing (which gives us WC, correct?)
I have to blurt out these platitudes, these bromides, this Republican-sounding pablum, just to live with myself another day.
Ford wasn’t in to do anything except score on a gapper. NO WAY you send him when they’re behind, idiot. Tied, yes. And on that ball, he’s out at second anyway. Take your Ledger and hit the sack, Denny.
I think I’ll start the pre-LU bashing. What the hell I guess I haven’t bashed my head in enough today.
CF Torres
2B Fontenot
3B Sandoval
SS Uribe
LF Burrell
1B Huff
C Posey
RF Ross
P Dirty
Maybe if they had Ford pinch hit and Guillen pinch run…
Zenyatta by a head!
I had to turn away at the 1/16 pole. Looked like she was gonna come up short. But she knows just where the wire is each time. 19 times to be exact.
I haven’t done this for the last two days, so I must do it now in case I forget…
This lineup sucks! How the hell can Bochy think of starting Rowand? he’s a goddamn boob. And Renteria as well? Jesus H. Christ Bochy is a goddamn boob. Might as well bring back Big Titty ans start him. Better yet, start Whitey today.
Final lineup of the year and this one sucks the most. We have NONE chance with shit crew. NONE!
Way to go Dennis. Although, don’t say last, we need a bash for the play offs.
Shit, final margin was a 1/2 length. I think she just likes to make people nervous.
the padres as of now, hit at least a 32/1 shot, (at even money) with a 4 game parlay, they will need a 128/1 longshot to make it, by atl and Sf losing again tomorrow…strange game this baseball
ooops, 16/1 to 64/1….but the games weren’t even money…
Have to disagree … Ford is there to steal a base. Of course you do it as the tying run. Ask dave Roberts. No one remembers the last gapper Guillen hit anyway. His odds of an extra base hit were about 30-1.
Roberts was a totally different circumstance. Disagree all you like, you’re wrong. Never hear from the second guessers until later. You were at your PC when Ford went in.
If the Giants win tomorrow:
MacDog is the clear favorite at 92 and 705 runs
Others with 92 and their run prediction:
3Bagger 708
Swick 710
Ted 714
Run total now is 694.
Those with 91 can only win if the Giants lose tomorrow AND in any elimination games.
The way I see this series is, we had to win one with three to go. Now we need to win one with one to go. That has to be better than have to go, or vertigo, or stop & go, maybe even indigo.
Fuck it, I’m going to go get drunk.
So lemme get this straight. If the Braves loss again tomorrow, we’re in?
Shit, I’ll have enough things to worry about with the Niners playing the other team from Atlanta.
Hey, kind of spooky. Booth our teams will be heavily rooting for an Atlanta loss.
FUCK HOTLANTA!
As I said, they can be in even if they lose.And I could give a rat’s ass if they back in.
The 2 big mouth SP goes tomorrow. Dirty v Latos. Hollywood script.
So if all 3 teams are 91-71 after tom’w, what happens? Wouldn’t Atlanta clinch the Wild Card since their 91-71 would beat the SF/SD Monday loser who would be 91-72?
No, not the way I understand it. Giants and Sd play for the division, loser plays Atlanta for WC.
” That would set up a one-game playoff for the NL West Monday at Petco Park, with the winner advancing to the postseason and the loser falling into a one-game playoff for the wild card Tuesday at Atlanta.”
Tomorrow:
“The Mickey’s Big Mouth Bowl”..
That’s the fair way I guess, Twin, but doesn’t it go against the rules that have been in place forever?
91-71 beats 91-72 after Sunday the same way 92-72 will beat 92-71 after Monday.
loo…the rules were revised when a wc was born….
Go Tree, fuck a Duck!
I meant 91-71 beats 91-72 after MONDAY the same way 92-72 will beat 92-71 after TUESDAY.