Shit Sandwich
Last night was a perfect example of how wayward and frustrating our season has become: Bottom of the 5th, Giants scratch and claw to get a couple of guys on base. Belt comes through with a two hopper through the infield. We start high fiving ourselves on the couch to celebrate this rare success. Next inning, Padres score 8 runs.
At the Mercury, there’s a picture of Stubbs and Gorks strewn across the ground with the ball eluding them:
I mean come on, STUBBS and GORKS. Think about that for a second. And our team is littered with guys like this. And if you don’t like replacement players who fail to even live up to replacement level expectation you get a bunch of over paid *good Giants* who are doing shit this year. I’m looking at YOU Smarge and Posey and Pence.
About the only two guys who have consistently brought home the bacon this season are Panik and freaking Cain!!!!!!!
So this is your team. Look around, this is your team. Your choices are limited: 1) keep watching this slop and hope for the best 2) Stop watching and go find something more enjoyable to do. I imagine this decision is tougher for you east coast guys.
My advice is to start playing daily fantasy at one of the two major sites. If you like baseball it keeps the season infinitely more enjoyable when you have an interest in players outside the current wasteland of San Francisco……
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“Your choices are limited: 1) keep watching this slop and hope for the best 2) Stop watching and go find something more enjoyable to do; or, 3) Go to Vietnam.
Last couple nights explosion of runs and bombs across baseball like last year.
Friday 160 runs scored, last night 127 in 2 less games due to postponements.
Both nights 45+ HRs each, only 1 of them by a Giant.
Craw, on DL but due to return next weekend at Reds (yeah everyone feels better hitting there), has 2 HRs in 76 ABs.
Stubbs. Gorkys. Belt, a gold glover type 1Bman playing LF? Span either sucking or on the DL seemingly since he signed here? Pence looking like either the Paleo diet or his vid-crazy wife have vacuumed the baseball life out of him? Giants project to be running players in/out/up/down all season. Has to be. This OF suxxx so bad, they’ll have to keep throwing slop against the OF wall to see if anything sticks. Even Marty Lurie is saying this outfield can’t stay this way. If this bullshit were going on in NY or Philly or Chicago or Boston, markets that generate the revenue this team does, the front office would about to be burned at the stake…
his “vid crazy wife…” lqtm
Speaking of front offices, the Bills fired their GM and entire scouting staff today — the day after the draft ended. WTF? Looks like Jed has now officially given up the title as worst owner/management in the NFL…
Feel good story from Oaktown:
wife of Warriors vet David West purchased 700 prom dresses as part of 1000 gowns given away free at Oakland High. Gals in groups of 50 had an hour to try things on off racks set up in gym and pick out a fav. She did this before in NO and San Antonio. What a nice thing to provide for gals in need.
Just started reading a new book, collection of short stories by local authors “Oakland Noir” co-edited by Eddie Muller Jr., son of former longtime boxing reporter for SF chron. Good stuff. This is a good series; I read the one “Rio Noir” earlier and it was really enjoyable.
Sitting in New Orleans watching this huge storm through the screen door. Was in a bar the other day and bought a jar of some moonshine from some guy and shared sips of it with a guy wearing a SF hat who knows a ton of folks I know back in SF. I’ve eaten a roast beef po boy at Guy’s, a half a roasted garlic chicken (don’t remember the place), Boudin balls and a pheasant, quail and andouille gumbo out at the fairgrounds, and crawfish, fried shrimp and charbroiled oysters at Frankie and Johnnys.
Heard a bunch of brass bands out at the Fairgrounds yesterday and that made me very happy.
I love this town…
I haven’t been missing watching the Giants much. I saw a bit of a game while the wife was driving the other day, kind of sick to be able to see a game on a phone… Like I’ve said before, they could probably fill some holes by trading Arroyo.
sounds like quite a time, my man. There is a lot going on in this post if you read it 3 or 4 times.
I wouldn’t go trading Arroyo or anyone else for that matter. I don’t think Sabean has a country clue how to trade a vet for value. And a lot of these guys (Posey, Pence) are completely untradeable because of how much dough they make and how little they provide with the bat. But sure, for the right price I’d be persuaded to let Gorky’s and Stubbs go in a package for a jar of moonshine you bought from “some guy.” lol
It’s quite amusing sort of, to have a near $200 million payroll with an outfield of guys that if you DFA, nobody will claim. Seriously. When they DFA Gorkys and Stubbs, like Marrero (he cleared waivers), there is no danger of losing them — who will pick them up? Nobody. It’s like buying a Maserati, then to stay under the car budget, you pop on some nylon tires from Pep Boys …
Turned out to be good shine. Sometimes you just gotta trust your gut.
I think the kid is going to be a bust or at best a utility guy, so trade him now when we could get a real OFer for him.
I hope last night’s pathetic performance was the nadir of this season, but I doubt it.
Not to pile on but , and I’m shaking my head typing this, but maybe Cain shoulda stayed in for the 6th! Can you imagine you would ever have read that this year???
How awful is our bullpen that Boch left a guy in during a close game, to let 6/7 guys reach??? Then brought in a guy doing just as poorly. Gas on the fire, and then brought him back for another inning???
How did we get so bad this fast??? A 9 win team with one more day in April. A win and we are up to a 60 win pace…
At the time, it seemed like a good move mrsprtdude. Bochy called on Kelby to pinch-hit for Cain and that move paid off in the short term, with Specs single serving as part of a three-run rally to put San Francisco on top, 3-1. Of course, we all know what happened in the 6th. Ha.
Cain was the bright spot last night. Especially so, when you consider that San Diego knocked Cain out of his April 7 start after scoring four runs in 4 1/3 innings. Our longest win streak this season is 2 games, accomplished just once. Here’s our NL hitting stat ranks:
BA – 13th
R- 15th
RBI- 14th
HR – 15th
Slg.- 15th
OBP- 13th
Piss poor un-conga like hitting and a swiss cheese bullpen wont result in many wins. It doesn’t get any better tomorrow either. I think Kershaw is pitching.
Out of town camping this weekend and missed the games on Friday and Saturday. From the box it looks like Bochy made the mistake of taking our ace out early last night. WTF? High pitch count?
Cain could’ve come out for one more inning. His pitch count was high for 5 innings, but I think Bochy is just desperate for offense and pinch hit for him when they had a chance to score some runs.
Unfortunately, CF looks to be pretty much a wasteland beyond the excellent such as Yelich Trout Blackmon Pollock. Most others not hitting very well or like Lagares glove first guys. Not gonna be easy to pull off a trade for one.
I have serious doubts that Posey will ever have a 20 HR season again in a Giant uniform.
Not too confident about 15, either…
these days I would take some balls with a little backspin to them that bounced up against the wall……..
I agree, Loo. His power has all but vanished. Even extra base hits are hard to come by for him.
The Yanks just played the top of the 10th with reliever Bryan Mitchell at first base. He made an error and caught a foul pop as Chapman threw a scoreless inning.
Anthony Rendon of the Nats, went 6 for 6, with 3 HR and 10 RBI against Thor and the Mets today. Not a bad day, eh?
That would take all 9 of our guys playing for a week . . . Maybe two weeks.
Top RBI guy on Giants has 11….for the fucking season. Ugh….
Listen to him Kuik . . . Frickin’ Rendon scored 99 points on Fanduel. LOL
While in D.C., Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki threw 2 innings in a 23-5 loss.
I was just looking at scores, I thought football was back
Thor must have brought the wrong hammer.
Lulz…
Are the Giants just protecting this guy or what. Why pull him out, especially after last nights fiasco? I would not trust the bullpen 1 iota.
Jazz take out Clips on the road. good series coming up Tuesday, Utah contrast in styles.
Cue blow up of Clips roster…
Lustre is off the Nunie shine…
It’s been off for some time…
Uh, and way off the Melancon shine.
Error Nunie, then give up a tying dinger to friggin’ Hector?
Giants finding new ways to suck…
Belt with another 3 K’s today. Time for a day or two off I’d say.
Well, let’s hope May is a better month.
I know it’s only one game, but this is what I thought of Melancon when we signed him, i.e., someone who had shot his best load for other teams. Hope I’m proven wrong, but I doubt it.
Yeah, at the time I gave him 2 years to be OK, then suck the last two. Hope I wasn’t optimistic…
LHs had been 1-15 before today. But he’s the guy they rely on to get 3 outs with the lead and couldn’t do it.
Second game in a row where deserving SP gets screwed out of a W. Blach looked good.
this one was a little more of a screw job.
Giants with 16 dingers so far in season, dead last in NL next to Pirates 20. Second worst in entire MLB, just above Red Sox. Pads have 4 in this series…
When one of your biggest problems last year was the lack of a quality closer, and your 63 mil off-season acquisition/closer gives up the lead in the bottom of the 9th…WTF! 😡
Shit happens when you are a bottom dweller team…
Second time he has done this in April (BL). Conversely, Santiago had 2 blown saves in April last season. By the by, Santiago has 4 saves, 1 BS, ERA of 3.60, and WHIP of 0.80.
Myers v Strick — not liking that matchup…
Willie, correct me if I am wrong – When we were debating this during the Hot Stove season, we both were down with getting Jansen for two reasons: 1. Fucking with the Dodgers and, 2. getting the best in the business. Now it can arguably be said, we got the 3rd or 4th best closer available (in lieu of the Rockies getting Holland – another reliever I wanted for insurance that could have been had for relative peanuts).
oh yeah, Holland would have been good sign too.
But really for me it was Loo who got ball rolling on depleting LA by going after Jansen and Turner.
I was down with Holland all off-season. I wanted Jansen too, but felt like our chances were slim and none.
Wow, Strick for closer ! …
This upcoming long roadie is critical to the rest of the season. If it turns into a disaster roadie, and I think it will, there goes talk of some kind of recovery of relevance. Giants need to go .500 to keep some hope up for a WC chase…
looking at the players we have it seems like an absolute fantasy to go .500 on this roadie. The Padres stink and they have been toying with us this year. We are the worst team in the NL. Maybe all of baseball. Serious indictment of Sabean and Evans and the 3 WS only go so far. If I was a season ticket holder I would be bailing big time at the end of this year.
I think the roadie is big but not critical to rest of the season. They’ll be 36 games in after the trip…less than 1/4 of the season. But fuck…can they just play .500 ball…
FUCK! THIS! SHIT! I am going to tackle a project in the garage. This is worse than walking on a fucking bed of nails. PFTTTT.
Mass Suckage…
I hope this isn’t a surprise. Blach deserved to win but the team didn’t. Our two runs were produced by the pitcher and some guy Evans signed at a wedding reception. We SUCK.
Maybe he should try bar mitzvahs for a little youth infusion…
lol. yes!
Attaboy George, it was starting to feel like a long day…
As one of my co-workers would say, what a shitbag team.
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The San Francisco Giants are now 39-59 in the regular season since the 2016 All Star Break. With this payroll, that’s an embarrassment.
Incredibly, Cain could be brought back. They could buy him out for $7.5 million or keep him for $21 million so essentially he’d “only” cost $13.5 million to bring back… .
that’s not a bad way to look at it. He’ll probably get hurt at some point this year tho. The Giants have bigger problems than whether to bring back Cain.
The starters have been pretty good overall. The rest of the team is for shit.
Belt led Giants with 11 RBI in April. Rendon (13) 10 today.
For all the alleged excitement he’s brought, Arroyo is only 6-29 (.208)…
I think he’s going to end up getting sent down, if only to keep his confidence up. It’s asking a lot of a 21 year old to come up and rejuvenate an old, floundering baseball team. We’ll see how he does on this roadie.
Completely agree, LJ. Plus they need to showcase FA to be Nunie for whatever they can get at the deadline…
Sending Ramirez down. Next man up? Some 30 year old journeyman named Bryan Morris.
Hey Loo, is Syndergaard an idiot? Or, perhaps a better question – who’s running the show there, the manager and GM or Syndergaard? The Mets pushed back his scheduled start Thursday after he had been unable to lift his right arm above his shoulder just a couple of days before that. It was explained that Syndergaard had a sore biceps and tired arm. Fast forward today, after saying he didn’t need an MRI a couple of days ago, Mets management allows him to pitch today and he grabs his arm in pain while pitching to Harper.
I like what David Cone said after all this shit went down, “He’s not a very good doctor.”
MacDog would be a better guy to ask. I think he’s surrounded by rabid Met fans daily.
I’m usually surrounded by police…
OK, but you get all the Brady Skjei questions, ok?
Had a helluva game yesterday although his 2 goals were almost comically stoppable.
Looks like a good one…
I just watched the D-back walk off bomb and it went into the pool and the Dbacks have a very cool feature where they have a camera under water and they slo-mo the ball sinking into the pool. Hey, there wasn’t anything else for me to find cool today, that was it! Yesterday it was that baby hearing for the first time. Tomorrow? Who knows but I have to find something cool for tomorrow. Kershaw is pitching.
driving to pick Katie up this afternoon, flip on KNBR. Marty Lurie is taking callers. First caller (woman): “Hey, have you noticed the Giants started this slide exactly at the same time Duffy got traded???”
I turned off the radio and continued driving in silence……
Was she right?
Did she realize Duffy has barely played…idiot…
there is probably a fair amount she doesn’t realize.
lol
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That’s great. He’ll probably get in trouble for it…
Ramirez DFA’d.
As expected and predicted yesterday. You don’t leave a guy in two straight innings and let him get his ass kicked in both without a DFA in the mix. Bochy couldn’t look him in the eye going forward after doing that. Again, bullshit on Bochy for doing that yesterday. He white flagged it early and embarrassed a guy with thousands of high paying customers still in the stands. If somebody picks him up, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle…
Ramirez had nothing—he walked frickin Hacktor, which is dang near impossible and that should have been his final pitch right there.
That’s almost as impossible as someone giving up a 2 run bomb to him.
Ramirez lived and died by the sword (fastball) . . . he threw 10 1/3 innings with the Giants this month and allowed 15 earned runs on 16 hits. At the same time, he posted a lofty strikeout total (18) while limiting walks (four). His issues preventing runs this season are because of a high home run-to-fly ball ratio (13.3 percent). The long ball was an even bigger problem last year for him, where he allowed homers on 21.1 percent of fly balls, leading to a 6.00 ERA across 24 innings.
And guess whatvIbdid this weekend Flav…playing DFS and of course with paying little attention to both the Giants and baseball, little luck this weekend (players leading the afternoon contests have frickin Toles starting and I will never have the time, patience or knowledge to say yeah hey Roles is a good person to start today) and no way can I dedicate a lick of more than a minute during the week to make DFS worthwhile…you know with saving America and all😃
You’re needed in the swamp GH . . . Keep drainin’
Ho ho ho. That’s a good one.
Drumpf has engineered a tax code revolution.
Issued a one page, double spaced wish list of corporate and millionaire tax reductions. Winning…
I second Blade’s comment…
Saving America? If that means draining the swamp then giddy up. 😉
Waitaminute. We lost? Jeebus. Got busy with projects and thought I’d start here to see what happened in the 9th.
Uuuurk.
Blade, not that I think you are wrong about that idea about signing Holland, but no way with a team already in luxury tax mode were they adding $6 million more in salary. That is solely the reason this team went with Parker and Williamson as a left-field platoon. It is a joke to have had that as out best option.
The one guy I wanted last year at trade deadline was Jay Bruce…he hit his 7th homer already today…that luxury tax reality isbehat makes buying out Cain an automatic…unless they get rid of Smardhjamcrap and Cueto walks (or gets dealt), but then we are in rebuild mode and Cain them has to be gotten rid of…I am willing to give them till the All-star break, but if this team continues to play at this level, then the all-star break should be time for an entire rebuild and see what we can get for Pence, Cueto, Smardhjamcrap and dare I say Posey…hell dangle Crawford and Belt as well…waive Spam now.
This is all “hindsight is 20/20” musings, but this is what I would have done . . .
1. Fuck all the “caviar” closer free agents and take a gamble on Greg Holland. His Sherpa deal was for $7 million guaranteed, with non-closing incentives that could take the amount to $10 million and closer incentives that could bring the total to $14 million.
2. Coupled with a heavy emphasis on PR, retained Santiago Casilla, and making it explicit to him he was ONLY closer insurance, i.e., he would be doing 8th inning work and backing up Holland.
3. With the leftover money saved from not committing to Melancon, we sign a real left fielder, e.g., Cespedes.
Sorry, GH, but except for Cain I think they’ll all be back in 2018…
I call bullshit anytime someone wants to deal part of our middle IF. This team is, and will continue to live and die by pitching and D. Middle IF is off-limits IMO…
It’s as if Parker never existed…
Whoever here said that the Giants treat the luxury tax like a salary cap really nailed it…
Pussies worry about luxury tax
And faggots hide when their little team goes down the drain every year…
then that makes me neither. Phew. Gonna assume most of the Rangers worry about the luxury tax?
lol, come in , throw an elbow, and the loo takes no prisoners! Love it, dj
We go back to the “Gloating Rooster” days – you and Twin were priceless…
Rooster, i can’t take your shit talking seriously until you guys win a world series. Or at least get to one. I’d settle for that. Creeping up on the 4th different decade of either of those things happening so……
This is sure as fuck more entertaining than Giants baseball.
Yep, there were some epic days and nights on the old SF Gate blog, Loo – man that was long time ago.
The Splash! Good old twin – I miss that guy. Hell of a guy.
We all do (I think). Maybe he’s reading this and the sight of his old friend GR will bring him out of retirement…
lulz . . . Good one Loo. 🙂
Well, Melancon talks a good game, anyways :
“We better start panicking because if we don’t get our act together it’s going to be ugly. There’s too many good teams out there ready to go after us. This energy level needs to get going. We need to pick our play, throw quality strikes. We need to figure it out.” — Melancon
I’d prefer he just focus on *I*. He hasn’t been here long enough or done anything in his career that would lend others to following this battle cry to….not throw meatballs right down the middle?
I love guys that screw up royal, then use the Queen’s “we” need to pick it up — in the post-game pressers…
Yeah he needs to worry about his shit he’s caused first and foremost. He’s right but he ain’t the one to say it.
I’m looking to the bright side.
If this is a bad penny year, maybe, maybe we’ll get to see some minor leaguers up here. There might be one, or two, that actually belong…
Bryan Morris takes the place of Ramirez.
From the Merc: …
“As a non-roster invitee, Morris was with the Giants in spring training but suffered a stress fracture when he took a line drive off his foot in live batting practice. Before that, he dealt with a muscle issue in the spring. He also missed a good chunk of the 2016 season with Miami after he underwent back surgery.
“He’s going to bring hopefully depth in this bullpen,” Bochy said. “Experienced reliever that we were very excited to have in the spring.”
Morris did not allow a run in five appearances with triple-A Sacramento this season (5.2 ip). He has a 18-12 record with a 2.80 ERA over five Major League season with Pittsburgh and Miami.”
Should’ve been a win today, then Melancon grooved one…*I* indeed.
Well, BF – I can’t help it they can’t close the damned deal. They been knockin’ on that 20 foot door for long time. 4 straight division champs no guarantee you get in the show. Can’t say they haven’t had their chances. I can say, I’ve enjoyed all 4 years of those seasons, though. I just like good baseball, they’ve played A LOT of good baseball over the last 4 years, just haven’t been able to seal the deal. Been fun to watch nonetheless.
And I don’t mind you not taking me seriously, BF – I don’t take myself seriously either.
The front office is getting some well-deserved heat at the moment, but really, they’re doing what they’ve always done. Some here say it’s tough or silly to criticize them because of the 3 rings, but I’m beginning to think they just got lucky those 3 years with the spare parts approach to building a roster. For every Pat the Bat, Cody Ross, or Marco Scutaro, you’re gonna also get ones (so far, much of the roster this year) that don’t work out so well. Those teams gelled very well as *team*, so it seemed. This year’s version, not yet, they’re still finding their way. Just hope they don’t find it too late.
They definitely got lucky in the 3 title seasons but it was payback for the 3 years I think they were unlucky not to win it all (62-87-02). I don’t include ’89 when the A’s were the much better team…