Staggering Home
With no travel day to lick our wounds from a horrendous road trip, we stumble back home to face the Reds who we probably have a better chance of hanging with in our yard.
We get B-Craw back and that might trigger a little something.
As always, Bronson Arroyo is awful so there’s meat to pick off this bone if the hitters choose to……
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Hmmm, coming from NY, we don’t get a day off but the Reds do…Still, the win yesterday feels like another. I’m thinking it could be the turning point for the team to start digging out of the cellar. The Redlegs won’t be scoring 13 in our yard and Blach needs to show he can rebound after getting that Cincinnati steamer laid on him. Yup, I’m calling two in a row, Giants win, 5-3.
Yo John. How was Nawlins and the Heritage and Jazz Fest (need I ask…I am sure it kicked ass!)?
I had an awesome time, but I’m very glad I won’t be spending any money today. My bank account took a major beating. Still, it was worth it…
There are a lot of things to suck the money outta your pocket in that city! Glad you had a good time…
Can we just win TWO in a row for starts. One day. One game at a time.
I am still of the persuasion that I will not watch until they rattle-off three or four in a row, which means I may not watch another damned game this year.
OK…off to the first meeting of many…meeting hell day here.
GO GIANTS! (And take the Niners with you?)
lot of good things to take out of that game which I’m sure made 5 hour flight home lot more enjoyable.
Posey another bomb, Specs in the OF, blowing up Familia gomer hanging on guys who preceded him with 3 shutout innings, giants fans in the yard.
Panik starts rally with a walk and Nunez yet another GIDP gets botched, Giants rook makes them pay.
7 game homestand 3 with LA.
May 11 btw, Bob Marley died. Saw him live at Berkeley Greek theatre, tremendous. Buddy of mine had a show they taped while they were here that aired on KOME King Biscuit hour. He had it on reel to reel and we made cassette tapes out of it, so you know this was mid 70s. Rebel Music!
Nice job by Mac & Pawlie supporting the team…
i wouldn’t have gone either.
I was glad I didn’t till the last inning.
Then the remorse swept over me…
I don’t get that. So, you will only go to games when you feel management has made all the right moves and the team is hitting on all cylinders and has a legit change to win it all???
C’mon. If those were the parameters for attending games, none of us would have set foot in the Stick as kids.
Yes, it sucks that we have the worst record in baseball. Yes, management should have done a bit more in the off season, but we HAVE been decimated by injuries and have several guys slumping at once.
These are the times when true fans still watch the games, attend the games, and wear the gear.
We ain’t losing 100 games this year. The Pads aren’t gonna finish ahead of us. I’m not even ready to concede the Wild Card—we’re only 7 games back after this putrid start.
#EnjoyTheGame
…that was a response to Flav’s 9:26. Took me awhile to finish that post.
Loo—glad to see you had some remorse. Now go play some stickball and never let that happen again.
“Raiderettes settlement.” With all the billions in NFL, no idea why they mess with the babes.
Fun fact: A former Raiderette used to work next door, beautiful slim blonde who killed in her blue jeans let alone all dressed up. Her uncle was a musician who played in cover r & b band in south bay called NiteCry.
anyway, she used to party and usually would be late opening the store. There are trees all along the block so my move would be open doors grab a broom and go outside and sweep til she showed up. “Oh hi, hru?”
Years ago I worked in a small law firm with a paralegal who was a warrior girl. She was cute and petite. That’s when the warriors were in the middle of the wilderness decades…
Good thing Arroyo is still not in Sac hitting meaningless doubles and waiting to go through a slump there so his psyche is prepared for failure in the bigs. They brought up a pitcher from AA, I assume they plan to use him– so why not bring up some outfielders. Let’s go crazy and win two in a row tonite…
Williamson, who bochy said wasn’t ready a week ago, hit bombs 2 days in a row plus got some walks.
On my team he starts in LF, and the Slater kid is in CF til Span gets activated, and gets some spot starts in RF backing up Pence. At the least, Hernandez has to go. Fail.
Morse is under Mendoza line and has struck out 10 times in 21 ABs. Another fail.
I’d get Hwang up here in his place, fill in behind 3b and 1b. Morse is more dead weight, who knows what Hwang might add to the picture vs. ml pitching?
I read that one of Mac’s bombs was a 420 footer. They have Ryder Jones playing some LF and Austin Slater getting time at CF in AAA, also Chris Shaw has moved from 1B to LF in AA,
Props to SD for his 9:56 and I know Flav has said stuff like this in past, not to just bail in tough times. well said.
I think giants have plenty of guys on team to be part of the solution this year (including Bum) and beyond; like to see them cut ties with those who are part of the problem, but we’ll see.
True, we’re only 7 games out of the Wild Card; but literally everybody is ahead of us. So, it’s going to be very incremental. We have to pass the Padres and Braves first, who are a game ahead of us. So…..baby steps. 🙂
It can be done, and starting now would be a cool idea.
The Cheese-man had two hits yesterday. We get two hits from a centerfielder and it feels surreal, sort of miraculous.
Well, he started the game in leftfield, but the point holds for leftfield, too!
Good post by SanDiggity @ 9:56. I have been one of those that have been saying “fuck it…I won’t watch until they reel-off three or four in a row,” but I can almost assure you, I will be watching tonight. AND I am rocking my Giants gear today.
Looks like Mets will need a closer: Familia diagnosed with an arterial clot in his right shoulder.
In relation to WillieD’s 8:07…RIP to Bob Marley, mon. I was blessed to see Marley at Freeborn Hall (U.C. Davis) in 1979 (believe it was early December). GREAT SHOW.
lucky you, by ’81 he was dead from the cancer. so much good music left behind, jah bless.
Yes…after he passed a little over a year later, I realized even more so how blessed I was to see the man perform.
If any of you were watching or listening the year they lost 100, we shall get through this stretch too.
Kevin – I followed the Giants that year, as I have every year since my starting to follow the Giants in 1978. I got SO MUCH SHIT that year from folks because I continued to wear my Giants hat. That was a rough year…
Yeah it was, but me and my buddies would sit around the backyard drinking beer and listening to the radio, back then not much TV 📺
Dawg you got me laughing with that 10:02. They been hard to come by lately. Been a pretty shitty year so far for the family. And I thought 2016 was shit.
Boy oh boy, am I tired today.
I’ve mentioned it before so I’ll say it again,, played ball with all 3 sons of Jimmy Davenport and Jimmy was the best took are whole Babe Ruth team to a game once. But yeah the grief he took especially from mine and his hometown of San Carlos was brutal.Felt so bad for him, really everybody on that team tanked on him, all had career downer years from Chili, Hacman, pitchers , but he was the fall guy which was right, but the players sure didn’t help him that year!
who is Reyes Moronta?!
A relief pitcher they’re real high on lately. He’s a little older than I thought he was. He’s 24. And he’s kind of chunky. We’ve had some successful chunky relievers before.
he’s one of the four the Giants have in the minors who have hit 100 on the gun, apparently. He’s the only one they’re ready to bring up though.
We Giants fans are helplessly hoping for the team to turn things around real soon this season.
Time to ban the music videos from here.
They annoy the boss…
they’re fine, I just don’t like it when there’s a bunch of them and I’ve gotta scroll through them all. But I guess that’s how people feel about our horse racing posts and Blade’s fantasy baseball posts. Ha.
Marvin Gaye Span is back. Yippe — never mind.
The guys we’ve had in there make Span look like Joe DiMaggio.
Did Kruk/Kuip have a field day with Hamilton getting tagged in the crotch? Did Kruk trot out his “2 balls, one strike” line?
I was hoping the Nunie in the OF experiment was over. Good to see him catch that one. I had my doubts.
Whoa, ah, mercy mercy me
Oh things ain’t what they used to be, no no…
Even Kuip sounds happy with the Belt HR.
Friggin Belt.
If he’d fix his grip, he’d have hit it 450, not 427…
Can’t believe that I’m actually thrilled to have Span back…
So, you’re the one…
Panik’s single would be in the 15th row at Yankee Stadium…
good to see him pull the ball. would have been out in Cincy too.
Say Hey!
Amazing that Span didn’t hurt himself hitting a double.
Gotta get Nunez the fuck out of the outfield. He is the worst.
WTF Pence???
My man Span. Fuck you guys.
you stand by your Span. No question about that.
Is Span juicing? 😉 Last few days a bunch were ready to DFA him. When he’s healthy (and I get it…the important word is WHEN), he’s better than most of our other OFers.
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When Billy Hamilton gets on first, it’s almost like giving up an inside the park HR.
Had a friend named Billy Miller in the 4th grade who was the best kickballer in school (kickball being the main daily sport during recess). It wasn’t that he kicked the ball further than anyone else, it was that he was just super freakin’ fast, and it didn’t even matter where the ball went when he kicked it, infield or outfield, or even just a dribbler to the mound, he would just take off for first base and never stop running. He was a flippin’ blur around the basepaths, and even if the ball hadn’t left the infield, he just raced around the bases leaving errant throws in his wake. Practically every at-bat was the equivalent of an inside the park HR. Billy H. ain’t quite like that, but Billy M. sure was. I heard he died at age 35. Too fast to live, too young to die, huh….
That’s a sad story, Paul…
I’m sorry….
Stand by your Span.
I can almost hear Tammy Wynette’s voice singing it. 🙂
Span hit a dinger?
What is this world coming to? Bring on some more, whatever it is…
Uh, I spoke too soon. Span fluffs the catch near the wall. Giants outfield is a joke…
did Span botch that so-called triple?
It was a tough play, but he has to make that catch. It ticked off the end of his glove. You could tell he was worried about the wall. Good CF makes the play.
Miller said Strickland made a dumbass pitch to Cozart, right down Broadway.
Yes to both your questions.
Ooops, 2nd post not a Q.
Strickland grooved an 0-2 fastball.
Strickland. How many times has this meathead been ahead 0-2 and thrown a cripple fastball right down the middle that gets tattooed ? Plenty. Swear to gawd, this guy has a pitching IQ of 70. The catcher has to help his feeble brain in that situation — put the target about a foot outside, or call a breaking ball in the dirt. I don’t care if there is a guy at third, make the batter fish. Seriously, how many freakin times has this fathead gotten smoked by this exact same mistake?…
He sucks. I don’t care if he throws 110 mph, he can’t pitch. That was just the latest in a long line of dumbass pitches.
I recall it started in 2014 postseason.
He single-handedly revived the kayak business in the cove…
platinum gold
So sick of Pence trying to pull that low outside pitch. Every once in a while he’ll yank one out.
Then he’ll wave at the next 100…
Dodgers lost. That’s a groovy thing.
That inning is shining example of why Giants have sucked.
Span lets a fly ball near the wall clang off his glove for a triple. A good CFer makes the catch.
Then, Strick gets the next batter down 0-2, and goes into idiot mode, grooving the next pitch with a fastball down Main Street for a double. Run scores. You can’t do that crap when you only score 2 or 3 runs a game…
Nunez has been awful.
Belt really ground out that AB.
Poor Slumpy. It could have been a great moment for him.
Arroyo looks a little like a pin cushion…
Damn, thought we’d get three more runs…
I know Posey wasn’t playing tonight, but from what I saw, tonight’s lineup had only 1 hitter (Panik) hitting above .255. Fairly mediocre hitters top to bottom. Puts a lot of pressure on the pitchers. Of course, since the pitching hasn’t been great, I guess you could also say that poor pitching (especially in light of another bullpen collapse) probably puts pressure on the hitters, too…. Overall, the team is certainly not playing loose these days. Chicken or egg? Somehow get loose to perform better, or perform better to get more loose…
Bad baseball. Of course we will split the next two to continue the .333 oddessy..
The 3 LA games next week will tell a lot about this team….
I dunno. After 35 some odd games, I think we’ve got a good telling. They suck…
I’m trying to be optimistic. ………………….
I could go for one of those strike-shortened seasons right about now. Actually no.