One Game at a Time
A good result last night and, with the dogers losing in extra innings to the bravess, Your San Francisco Giants are back in first place. We cannot look too far into the future even though it holds those same dogers and bravess.
The near future is all we care about, and there is no sense looking at the past just now.
But of course we will.
The prognosticators have the Friars winning tonight’s game figuring Stults will outpitch our man Barry.
Zito-1-4 with a 4.93 ERA in nine career appearances at Petco Park. He is 4-2 with a 3.15 ERA against NL West teams this year and the lefty is 1-2 with a 7.06 ERA in his last four starts after going 3-1 with a 2.25 ERA in his previous five. Stults has recently started starting and has allowed one run in his past 13 innings. And he has won twice.
As my man yogi has said, ‘great hitting and vice versa’. We certainly saw the Giants do some great hitting last night and we have seen flashes of it all year (I am thinking StL). The current team can score them some runs. The Orange Friday fans last night were FANtastic it was hard to tell when the SD crowd was making noise. I have my peace pipe out and I am already thinking this is the rubber game. A win tonight should get us the sweep with our new ace going tomorrow who got his shit game-of-the-month out of the way against the nats.
The Flapper Nation has already pointed to the schedule as an advantage; especially these next 5 games. I do not think anyone anticipated a blow-out win at petco park being just the thing this team needed to heal from a surprise loss in the lineup. If Zito works it this evening (5:30 start btw) I know a sweep here and a series win in losenges would be the elixer to carry back home against the choppers from atlanta.
Yeah, it is ‘one game at a time’ and a series win is nice, but we are IN a pennant drive, we will want more and there are only 40 games to get it. Go Gigantes!
tonight’s hero(?) with my everyday hero
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Nice debut, my friend accross the pond
Anyone miss the *Juiced-Man* last night?
Scutaro is hitting .325 as a Giant.
Buster is hitting .427 since the all star break (110 at bats)
Pagan is hitting .317 in August
Belt is hitting .432 in August
Pence and Panda are here…
See where I’m going with this???????
we have plenty enough to win with..btw, Jenkins pointed out nate stats in philly: 7 for 32 and .219 avg in 11 games.
this is the most worrisome time for me. Late August and will we peak too soon? I am such a Milquetoast
Echo what Shakespe . . . Uhh, Ted said, great debut thread Ed!
Too kind with the Bard compare. Thanketh bladeth
De nadeth. 🙂
Melky became a cult hero around town faster than Pablo, and was looking to be a feature that would make the Giants special. You know marketing folks loved him and all the jazzing up they were promoting around him. It’s become a bit comical to watch how they frame these guys but it does lock them in and I don’t think the Giants will touch him again no matter what the price. I was surprised when the Yankees got rid of him, but maybe he was on one of them lists they have with the guys who escaped real scrutiny. Anyway, he sure made a huge impact on the Giants and fans and it’s damned interesting hearing all the theories and predictions. Have to believe Sabean is wheeling and dealing to get rid of the Melky Blues.
“Have to believe Sabean is wheeling and dealing to get rid of the Melky Blues.”
I agree with you Robbie Lou. Flavor’s 7:42am post is also true as well. Nevertheless, I suspect Sabean is working the phones to improve the club for what is going to be a tight, competitive stretch run with the Dodgers and D’backs.
Is or isn’t? I’d find it hard to believe he isn’t looking for help.
Nice reporting from the “Moat” Edd..
Great start to an important road trip,even if it is against a AAA Padres team.They are the type teams you have to destroy.Cain was great! The team is really coming together offensively (Melky Who?).Get the swagger back boys!
I think the writers are obsessing more about Cabera then the players are.He is in the rear view mirror and they are going forward.
They will be bound and determined to put up even better numbers without Cabera.To prove they can overcome the loss and keep the train rolling.It can be a big motivational factor.
There’s no reason Melky would have been on any list of suspected users when he was a Yankee. Let’s see- 5 years, .269 BA, .716 OPS. Atlanta 1 Yr. .255 BA .671 OPS…Then MAGIC in KC!
200 hits, 18 HR, .305 BA, .809 OPS
Gosh, I wonder when he started using?
Try to keep in mind that the better we do now, the harder it could be to pick up a significant waiver wire acquistion. As of now the DBacks and Dodgers can both block any attempts, as we did with Ross in 2010..again- they are better now offensively than they were at anytime of the year except ONE game-August 14. As others have also said- forget about Melky, he’s dead to us now. R.I.P.
So Twin,would you rather be in 3rd place right now so no one can block a move?
I don’t think that is what he is saying. The stronger we play the MORE other teams will risk making a move thinking they have to block us. As far as waiver order we are blocked.
Not at all- I’m saying win-today, tomorrow, and sweep the Bums. I’m just pointing out reality to those who think we can get a guy just because we want him. You might read the whole post- I LIKE our offense as it is.
Hey, maybe we can snooker the DBacks and Dodgers into grabbing Nate and Casper Wells to fuck us over…
I am watching the LLWS playoffs to see how Petaluma is doing. The west team all-stars play their second game tomorrow and it is a double elimination tournament. the “star” of the team is 12 year old manager’s son Bradley Smith. Both coaches have their kids playing 2nd and 3rd. Smith is listed as 6’3″ 185lbs which makes him about 5″ and 50lbs bigger than anyone else on the team. He is also in 1st or 2nd place (or tied) for every category for all teams in the playoffs. This stuff is fun. Curacao just beat Germany 13 – 2. This year the first African team, Uganda, is playing. Check out http://goo.gl/Lnn30 NJ v Oregon 5pm pst should be a good game.
cheers
Edd–nice job on the post today and thanks for the Blackberry tips the other day. I’m starting to get the hang of it, though I did accidentally call 911 last night at the Padre game trying to access my voicemail!
Give Lemon Grove some love in the LLWS as well. LG is very close to where I live.
…I guess Lemon Grove is playing in the “Senior Little League” tourney in Maine, which is different from the traditional one Petaluma is in.
Yeah, there are several “little league, esq” divisions. With what we think of as little league (the 13yo (after May 1) and younger) and boys and girls softball, senior league, full sized league and the challenger league.
Waiver wire is only one avenue available to Sabean. Specifically, August 31, is the trade deadline; and, September 1, active rosters increased from 25 to 40 players. In all likelihood, not much of significance will happen. That’s the reality and I am fine with that because it takes two to “tango.” However, this DOES NOT mean he isn’t trying to improve the team for the stretch run. Regardless, of what happens, I wont blame the Giants for not getting something accomplished . . . This isn’t fantasy league where you have little or no restrictions on trading and waiver wire additions/subtractions.
The August 31 trade deadline is part of the waiver wire procedure, it is not a seperate process.
People were surprised that the Marlins let Ross go for nothing after we claimed him. What usually would happen, say with Soriano- a team first would have to be awarded the claim, then have until August 31 to complete a trade if they wanted him to be available for postseason play.
September call ups happen every year, win or lose. Except in specified injury circumstances, those players are not available for postseason play.
I know that, i.e., The Major League Baseball (MLB) non-waiver deadline is July 31. My point is that Sabean has other alternatives and I note, that “in all likelihood, not much of significance will happen.”
You said that in addition to the waver wire, he had other options, “Specifically, August 31, is the trade deadline”… they are the same option, Steve. I know what you wrote and agree with it except for the part that I corrected- the 8-31 trade deadline is not an option in addition to the waiver wire. They cannot complete a trade without going through the waiver wire procedure first. Unless they are the LA Lakers 😉
Wouldn’t that be wonderful . . . I’d even settle for Miami (as in Heat). 🙂
Yesterday, I saw a prodigious home fun by Giancarlo Stanton. Reliever Josh Roenicke was greeted by by this gargantuan solo homer to center. The ball traveled an estimated 474 feet — against the wind. It was the longest homer of the season at Coors Field, but still short of the record 496-foot blast by the Dodgers’ Mike Piazza on Sept. 26, 1997. By the by, Stanton has hit a homer in each of the five games he’s played at Coors Field this season. The guy’s a monster.
Giants pitchers excel at ‘stealing’ strikes
I just stumbled upon this at http://goo.gl/iQdnJ
Excellent article Ed. Thanks.
I think it gets down to the Mr.’s 13 and 87- and Hacker. Eric was back in form at Fresno after struggling for a couple months- just 6 ER in last 36 innings. The next two starts are big, I think, for Tim and Barry. If either struggles again, I think they have to ask who is more likely to give the team 6 innings with 3 runs alllowed, or even 5 and 3 ? This is how far it’s gone- Hacker maybe the guy least likely to give them seven innings and one or two runs- but he very well be the least likely to pitch them out of the game. As I said when he came up, I do not think he’s here to replace Loux- he’s here to step in for one of our erstwhile CY winning dudes.Let’s hope Tim and Barry can make it moot…
Angel Pagan CF, Marco Scutaro 2B, Pablo Sandoval 3B, Buster Posey C, Hunter Pence RF, Joaquin Arias SS, Brandon Belt 1B, Justin Christian LF, (Barry Zito P
What’s with the first AND last names now? That only happens three times in a guy’s life: 1) when they get called into the principal’s office 2) when they get married and 3) when they die. Our players have already experienced 1 and 2. You must be saying the Giants are dead now. I guess even *you* must be liking *My* Dodgers’ chances right ’bout now. For shame, TF. For shame.
DMD, WTF is the deal with you and LA? I predicted LA would win the division, but I don’t WANT them to win it. In fact, I hope they choke like flea infested rats down the stretch. Do you WANT them to win it?…
Fuck you. Go push an old lady off a cliff.
it’s from the website.
http://www.rotoinfo.com/?game=lineup
Excuse me. That was mean, scumbag.
Dennis if the Dodgers are currently favored to win the division and you’re talkin’ up that bet then that virtually fucking guarantees us that we win the West. By you’re own admission, you’re a chalk eater right? How’s that usually work out for ya?
He gave them the division in April- they *are* his Dodgers amd his constant gloating whenever they take a lead or are favored proves it.
he does the same shit when a closer blows up in a non-save situation. Posts something about it every time. He fails to ever post the countless times that a closer pitches well in a non-save situation. But luckily, he rested that case and can focus on more important things— like catching Steve in the fantasy league.
Hey Dennis, Beltran has been what I said he is right now: a decent but not great outfielder–those are a dime a dozen. And Cishek chalked up another save last night.
You gonna make a move on him or are you tossing in the towel early this year?
He’s pissed because his Pussies are batting 0-19 today. Whoops . . . Make that 0-20 thus far.
Sorry, I shouldn’t be a shit disturber. 🙂
I can’t abide a person who uses movie lines to obfuscate his own sentiments. Lord knows why he’s back, see ya.
This is bizzare….Roy Oswalt took Ryan Dempster’s start today for the Rangers against Toronto.Supposedly Dempster had visa problems getting into Canada.The real kicker is Dempster was born in Canada.WTF is with that?
Canada busts people at their border all the time for one offense or another. Maybe he’s wanted for something.
They won’t let convicted felons into Canada and a LOT of misdemeanors here in the states are considered felonies in Canada
Edd’s gonna be in the dark for a while for this one. Game time is at a crisp 1:30am on his telly…….
Don’t know how much of the game I’ll be able to see tonight. Instead of camping in this fishing cabin we’ve been in since April, the wife and I are camping in our house. I say camping because the internet and cable TV aren’t hooked up yet. There is a side canal between the two properties, which we cross via a board/plank that I have set up. Going across that may get a little risky as the night goes on, we’ll see.
Prove me wrong Zito, kick some Bud Black ass.
Question Bozo – this plank that you cross . . . How high is it above the canal? Any alligators that you have to watch out for (or, does this country have crocodiles? I always get them mixed up)? Pythons?
Welcome home, ya fuckin clown…
I know Flav. The storm was last August, we camped out in our house until April when we started camping in this shack. A fucking year to raise my house up, what a joke. If we had it to do all over again we would’ve just fixed what was broke and not gone through all the other shit.
Stanton’s first at bag tonight: 3 run bomb. Why do they keep pitching to this dude in Colorado, lol
Move to Brooklyn, Bozo. I only have one living Giant fan friend left, and he’s almost 80…
What are we? Chopped liver (in my best Brooklyn Jewish voice)?
Loo come on down to the Outer Banks, we’ve got a few around, although I think one of the guys is in his 80s like your friend. Hell Gaylord Perry had a place about 15 miles from my place (I think he still has a PO Box in Manns Harbor NC)
We have gaters close by (shit Steve, I live close to Alligator river and I’m butt up to the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge) but they don’t come into the canals around the village. I don’t think the water is clean enough for them. The side canal is only about two to three foot deep at the moment and about ten foot wide (again, at the moment). These side canals are mainly used as feeders to the large canal out back which feeds into the bay and Croatan and Roanoke Sounds.
Roanoke? Isn’t that where the “Lost Colony” is located? Dollars to donuts, the alligators ate them.
Yeah, they were on Roanoke Island where the big town of Manteo is and Andy Griffith just died.
Nice DP
Arias, airs it.
Shit, Zito’s getting all fidgety.
Shit, Buster has a fucking gun. Maybin is fast, he was running on one of Barry’s *gravity sinkers* and Posey still nails him with room to spare!
Speaking of Miami and Stanton, the Snarkettes have been driving me crazy this summer playing this song over and over. I was sick of it until I saw this on youtube. I’m now a Dolphins fan. Maybe this will start a rally for us the next coupla innings. http://tinyurl.com/9zl7pvq
I don’t know what’s going on, maybe it’s just the sheer number of times I have to listen to this song (and songs like it) in the car driving Katie around. But I actually started liking this song. Now, I’m not going to listen to it without her in the car and I’d never admit it to anyone in my 3-D world, but I sing this song (inside my brain) to myself when it’s on in the car–and I kinda want to sing it out loud. The horror. And normally I put her shitty music in the back of the car but lately, I don’t know what’s happening, I balance it right in the middle of the front and back. What the fuck is happening to me? lol
What’s happening to you is you’re a Dad of a pre-teen daughter.
In that world, you get to know things like who the hell Carly Rae Jepsen is.
It’s actually a pretty good world… 😉
i listened to it. never heard it before it turns out. can i just tell you how glad i am to have boys?
man, Panda put his head down (normally his *indicator* that he’s going to the next gear) and there was nothing there. Absolutely the same speed of slow…….
He fucking murdered that ball. Zito is pitching like shit tonight.
I’ll tell ya what, and I think Twin alluded to this earlier, but if Zito and Timmy keep pitching like shit as the season wears on, Hacker could score himself a spot start with a nice long relief appearance tonight…..
Arias cost us a run there. Zito cost us two of three. When Zito walks people, like in the 2nd frame, he’s not worth a crap. Don’t give up anymore, and this one is still early and recoverable…
The plank across the canal is getting shorter. Fuck.
Is Zito throwing his curveball tonight? I’ve been in and out, down to pool back up, etc but every time I look at the tv he’s throwing an 83 mph fastball.
Yeah, he’s been thrownin’ it. Not consistently for strikes is the problem…
Game track had mostly breaking balls. Zito hardly got anyone out it seemed—the line drive DP, the CS on Maybin. Nice takeout by Pence, I like this guy. Hacker time, imo.
I hear the song every time I’m in the gym, and yeah it’s a catchy tune. Thx for the vid snarkk, what a collection of knockout babes. I can see why it’s got 11 million views.
Yeah, if I were 25, I might be headin’ to Miami. They’re all pretty good, but a coupla those Dolphinettes are just absolutely smokin’. Youtube stopped the comments, I wonder why? Ha. One of the Latinas in particular (0.37) gives me very impure thoughts…
Christian is hitting .150 with the big club. That just can’t continue, I’d rather see Blanco regardless of the opposing pitcher, Blanco has more potential to disrupt the defense. They need to get a RH bat…
Nice move by Bochy to yank Zito for PH already. Bochy decided to stop the bleeding, and Theriot came through on the PH. Wow, Scutaro is just squaring up stuff. Sabes gets a lotta points for picking him up…
Very nice inning by the hitters…………… Thanks, Hedley!!!!!!!!!!
Arias!!! Gotta love it.
Great inning 🙂
Bingo, Snarkk. But 5 innings of pen should be interesting.
Welcome aboard, Hacker.
Nice little inning there, the lead and momentum on our side now. Now need that all important shut down inning.
No help from the Braves tonight. The Sheets experiment wasn’t successful in that game.
Hacker? After this comeback? I know it’s only the 5th but the BP is super rested and I don’t want to see him past this inning……
Good call on that.
Prophetic. Sigh.
thanks. I am surprised it was that hard of a call for Bochy.
Yep, I said this one was recoverable. Nice job by the squad. They’re playing better on D, and the situational hitting is starting to get more consistent. Now, let’s add on, and keep the lid on these Pads…
Right now Chase Headley is my favorite Giant. He’s not a Giant? Oh well.
Either way they need someone to eat a couple innings.
Nevermind.
Yep.
Oh boy. Hacked up a furball there.
Fat Bastardo’s up.
At Wednesday’s game, he was warming up in the bullpen at one point, and for a split-second I thought it was the Panda warming up to pitch. I did a double-take.
Snarkk (to continue from above)– I had an hour to kill before the game and Katie wanted to go swimming so we went down to the club which is about a one minute drive down the hill from our house. There were a surprisingly low number of kids there and I was busy finishing one of the MANY stupid-ass AYSO online courses that they make you take to coach.
So Katie is swimming alone, diving, doing her thing and this dude (about 9 by my raised eye) is talkin’ her up and they’re swimming around, playing games and shit. Her parents, who I didn’t know, were here and seemed cool enough.
Now before I continue, Katie knows my mantra with her. I always tell her, “boys are idiots. Every single one of them. If you want to play with them then don’t complain to me when they play too hard or splash water in your eyes or whatever. That’s what boys do.” But she’s a bit of an athlete and she’ll mix it up in the pool if a game breaks out but there have been many, many times where she comes back crying or complaining about a boy and I say “Kate, we’ve already talked about this: Boys are idiots. Don’t forget it.” Of course, if I see one of them fucking with her beyond normal boy-idiocy, and I have, then I have no problem telling that kid what time it is and addressing the issue with his parent…….
But back to today….So it’s coming up on 5:30 and I tell K8 it’s time to go and she wants to stay for 20-30 minutes to play with this dude. No biggie, she’s 9.5 and we live 1 minute away, it’s a private club, I’ve felt comfortable leaving her alone this Summer for short periods of time (but never to play with some dude). I grant the wish, leave, start the bbq, watch the first half inning and come back to get her. She’s rock solid, showered, dressed and ready to go right when I get there. But this dude is now out of the pool and at the bench with her outside, chatting her up, and I’m like “Um, you must go now.” But he’s super respectful, very verbal and bright, and they’re just talking about a tv show so no biggie. It was cute. As we leave he goes, “Ok Katie, have a great evening.” I whispered to her, “say you too” and she did…….
We’re walking out to the parking lot and I said, “you know, I think that boy might have had a crush on you.” She doesn’t say anything….we’re driving up the hill…still quiet. And then she says, “So daddy, what did you say about a crush?”
And I instantly wanted to kill myself, and that dude, because tonight it started and I’m not going to be able to stop it……..
🙂
Well, it certainly doesn’t get easier. You still have a couple years of grace period. Keep her busy . . . . sports worked for my girls.
By that I mean it seemed to keep them out of the snarky/bitchy/catty groups that inhabit a lot of middle schools.
Middle school is crazy these days.
Yep, good story right there. Every day there’s always something new, especially with two of ’em here. My older Snarkette is heading into 8th grade in about ten days, and is in full on young teen mode. She’s sporting near a B cup so far, and I think that’s not stopping until further down the alphabet. The boys will definitely be interested. Dad is exasperating often now, and clearly not with it. It takes work to pry a conversation out of her longer than 30 seconds. The younger one is heading into 6th, in her world Daddy is still OK. It’s going to be an interesting next 5 years. It’ll keep me young, I suppose. And, freekin vigilant….
thanks, it’s good to hear fellow *dad* stories on raising a girl. I feel like CHuck is the blog’s Wizard of Oz with this stuff since his girls are now in college. I have a lot of friends and a good network, but I’m in a very unusual situation raising Katie basically alone since her mom, who I haven’t been with in years, is just not into parenting and not cut out to be a mom.
Believe it or not (another thing I was totally bummed about this Summer) Katie has started developing. I didn’t know what to do so I bought her a book,lol. It was actually a great call, it covers everything about female development, and she reads it all the time (usually at night). Apparently there are 5 stages to breast development and Katie has decided she’s in stage 2. I’m going with stage 1 but whatever i bought her a training bra. The other day she blurts out in the car “Dad, I think my breasts just hit stage 3” and as I swerved the car back into the lane I just covered my ears and turned up the Carly Rae…. Hey, maybe that’s why I’m starting to like that shit music. 🙂
Dude, you sound like you’re doing more than fine as a single Dad. Thank Keereist I’ve got Mrs. Snarkk, she handles the training bras and related stuff. I’m sure I’d be able to do it if I had to, but I don’t have to. I have actually read a few pages from the “growing up girl” type books. Actually, pretty good stuff. I wish when I was a kid they had “growing up boy” shit I could have read. My dad barely had time to say “good job” when I had a good report card. And, that’s about it. I think your daughter is in good hands growing up…
Arias is having a game….Panda almost hurt himself 3 times trying to get home.
are you seeing what I’m seeing? There is no 2nd gear……..
I think he’s consciously holding back. He IS faster than that showed.
I’m likin’ this resilience. WTF are they like this on the road, but not so much at home. Weird. Although, so many SF fans in Diego makes it like a home game…
It IS the Pads. And this might as well be a home game. Their once rock-solid pen is leaking badly now.
Nice job Sandy . . ..
Giants keep plugging away. Glad Zito is gone. Damn!… I don’t like his pitching.
Be nice to see Casilla get through an inning unscathed.
Chuck Comcast jsut said James and Jacobs got carted off the field. How bad was it?
Nice job by Sandy there.
Flav’s 7:29 and 7:59, as well as snarkk’s 7:49 is partially what makes the Flap so special. Yeah, the baseball is what draws us here, but I stay only because your stories – I am talking all of the Flappers – can be so frickin’ compelling, sad, tragic, angry, funny, or happy . . . Frequently, all those emotions in one story. If someone were to write a book (hint to Pawlie), this blog would be GOLD for a bestseller. My hat’s off to all Flappers and how each of you live your life day in and day out! 🙂
Agree, Steve… the comedies… the tragedies… the stages of life… it’s all here on the Flap. And, amidst all the baseball talk, I feel I must take this moment to say THANK YOU to Craig and Snarkk for affirming that maybe I actually have NOT lost my mind, or manhood, or whatever, for also liking that stupid Call Me Maybe song, and I haven’t even seen the video of which you speak. A handful of my students (young lovely VNmese) made their own video of it and I played it over and over and over… I love those girls, so that helped me like the song, but even now if I hear it play in one of my local bars, I’ll sing quietly along to it with a stupid little smile on my face (which has prompted several of my drinking mates to look at me like I’ve lost it… hey, talk to the hand, I don’t hear you)….
Wow, maybe I have lost my manhood… Paulina? How the hell did that happen?////////////////
haha, that’s hilarious. Do you input your screen name each time you post?
Usually don’t have to, it goes automatically, but I guess that time it didn’t and I typed too fast and … there you have it….
Nice shot, Pence cracked that one right off the wall. more insurance is always good.
I don’t care who it is against, either. The rox won 2 out of 3 in LA before they came to SF, and the Pads spanked the Pirates when they were on the road. The W’s all count one on the good side.
For a twitchy spindly kind of guy, Pence does hit the ball hard. Good to have him. And I must say, agreeing with someone else here today, the Scutaro pickup was kind of quiet and seemingly innocuous, but I’ve been nothing but impressed with what he’s done here so far. That was a much bigger trade deadline pickup than I think it seemed at the time….
And I wish I could figure out how to download that video of my students here…. so cute… makes me feel like a proud papa. Or a lecherous one….
this is such bullshit. Affeldt had Alonso struck out and then 2 ducky-fucky finger-cuff-hole-finders send Affeldt to the showers. And Hensley is gonna get the save. Or the loss……
Flav, it looks like Jacobs is toast.
LMJ didn’t look too good either.
fucking great. I’m not sweating Jacobs since I didn’t really like him anyway (seriously, is there a bigger man who’s easier to knock down than that guy?)
But I don’t want LMJ getting derailed……..
Good call on that 9th inning insurance run, Willie….
funny how that works out man. Seems like it always comes in handy, like with wilson last few years.
I really hate giving up those steals…posey gunned down maybin earlier, who sure as hell runs better than yonder alonso, but he didn’t have a chance because affeldt bounced the breaking ball in the dirt. So a four hopper up the middle, another steal and a soft liner later and it’s a one run game. Which Hensley of all people closes out with a K. And the dodgers can keep their hold on second place.
I’ll give props to black again too. Pads play hard, regardless of how little talent they have.
I’m more bummed about Jacobs. Dixon is shit for short yardage. As we saw tonight. Jacobs looked much better here than he did in NY. James? That sucks as well. He’s fast. Hunter looked good though. As did Gore. Neither were putting ANY weight on their hurt legs. Very bad.
Dixon is making the cut.
Edd is probably just about waking up to find his Flap Author Record to be 1-0
My POTG is Bochy, followed by Arias. Bochy pulled all the right moves tonight, most of all pulling Zito early and PH Theriot for him, which got that mini rally going. Arias had his best offensive game as a Giant…
well, he went to Hacker for longer than an inning, which is all I thought that dude could hope to bring us. But after that, I agree. And I think Affeldt just got totally fucked out of that save. He’s pitching well every time out there, lately……
Hacker’s *second* inning isn’t going to get him any closer to a spot start for Timmy or Zito.
Yeah, if he’s supposed to be better than Otero, then sheezus. Doesn’t look like Hacker’s going to be tearing it up while he’s up. Meanwhile, Zito pretty much stunk. Looks like he’s one game on, one off…
both Zito and Timmy have been, at best, one game on one game off. It’s tough for the team to tolerate that when they both go *off*……
SFGate’s reporting that the two backs for the Niner’s are not badly hurt, per initial Xrays and tests. These practice games are nothing but a way to get guys hurt…
Jacob’s knee has no structural damage to the patellar tendon or the ACL. He may miss a couple games, but he’ll be back this season. James said his injury was a ‘tweak’ to his ankle and he’ll return shortly. Grains of salt should be taken with this, but it appears they dodged a couple more bullets.