Negativity
Our ace let us down last night. He brought home the bacon, he just couldn’t fry it up in the pan. And if the reliable Holland has left us, we are in a pretty dark place, my flappin’ friends…..
Not being able to hit continues to be a problem. We can’t just be a better hitting team than we were last year. We have to be SIGNIFICANTLY better. And we aren’t.
Jon Gray is a stud who should shut us down. The Royal Wedding has ended with their first glorious kiss as husband and wife. And Pimlico is under water.
Lame weekend….
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Yeah give the queen a Royal Flush send off..
xoot makes pretty good point, Giants going with entire rotation of #5 guys. One bad pitch did in the stopper.
Fairness to Olney, no one would have predicted how competitive NL is as of now. Phils Braves Brewers Pirates and DBax would be five in and 10 teams over .500.
As for Bum, good thing there isn’t no trade clause, because he’d absolutely block deal to an AL team where he couldn’t hit. Giants could use his bat off bench right now.
i wonder though if he wants to head closer to home. I can’t imagine a guy who keeps his feelings about SF to himself more than Bum. bet he misses dem country roads….
Doesn’t he live near Currys…Orinda or near there? mm different world than downtown SF.
Saw this on B/R: Gorks now has higher slug pct and just as many bombs (in half the ABs) as Cutch.
Good post Flavor. Additionally, the Dodgers had 2 catalysts return – Turner tied a career high with five RBI and Maeda pitched eight outstanding innings to help the Bums snap a six-game losing streak by beating the Miami Marlins 7-0 on Thursday (rainout yesterday). Their first two months are a little reminiscent of the 2016 season when they were under .500 in April and ended that month on a 5 or 6 game losing streak. Fast forward to May, things started to change for them.
In fact, they have a positive run scored differential now (we don’t), i.e., they have scored 185 runs and allowed 182. We’re at 183 scored and 216 against, worst in the division, even behind the hapless Padres.
Not saying the Dodgers are waking up like some sleeping Giant (excuse the pun), because their play has been putrid. But they’re not dead yet.
Yeah, Arizona had a chance to kind of run away with the division for a good long while, but stumbled mightily. Goldy is struggling. And they also had the Pollock injury.
The Dodgers had several guys with career seasons last year, and have come back to earth this season. But it might take only about 90 wins to win the division this season.
Bud Black has got a Rockies bullpen he can really go to town with, but the Rockies are not the hitting force they’ve been over the years.
It’s looking like a weaker division overall than it was last season.
7.5 back in the middle of May? Not close to dead.
Always tough when the club can’t pick up their ace. Williamson back in Sacramento and promptly hits another bomb, Slater still mashing and Pence is hitting too. How many turns of the rotation before Bumgarner gets back? 3?
1. Gregor Blanco (L) LF
2. Andrew McCutchen (R) RF
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
7. Miguel Gomez (S) 2B
8. Gorkys Hernandez (R) CF
9. Chris Stratton (R) P
I feel big things ahead for Miguel Gomez today…
With Gorkys protecting home he’ll get something to hit.
Jackson and Cutch are a lame offensive combo. Tired of hearing how Cutch is hitting it “hard”. Jackson is a K machine, and his D looks like a minor upgrade, very minor, over Span. If this is what goes on all season for those two, that spells team suckage. In short, the OF pickups didn’t do yet, what they were supposed to. Pence supposedly has discovered the upper cut swing from Mac’s hitting guru in LA. We shall see. Meanwhile, I say let Mac hit one more dinger at Sac and then bring him up. This outfield must look different near or after the all star break. Somebodies have to go…
Jackson is what he is. It’s the fault of the club for misusing him. I’d like to see Duggar for his defense alone and either Williamson and Slater come up. I’ve always liked Blanco but he and Haernandez are redundant and something has to give to improve the OF defensively and change the look of the LU.
The guy I thought they would sign instead of Jax was Carlos Gomez who wound up getting 1 yr @ $4 million from Tampa. He is at 5/11/.200. His greatest skill is getting HBPs…
Yeah, Jackson has no business being an everyday CF. Good utility-platoon piece, but every day he’s a joke.
Jackson is just a freakin K machine,44 now in 108 useless AB’s..
Tough guy Belt is back in the LU. “Lifetime” he’s 0-6 vs. Gray. Let’s see what the new Brandon Belt can do. Hell, let’s see if the new Brandon Belt survived his phone call from Torre.
Jackson acquisition looks like a total bust. The guy only costs $6 million over two years, so that is a totally burnable contract. Bring Duggar and Slater up, cut Jackson, nobody will miss him after a weekend. Seriously, Giants have to get over this business of playing dudes that are contract busts…
he was good against LH last year. His whole career, actually. Could just be a guy who can’t adjust to the NL. Weird tho that he’s been this bad.
I ‘d give him to the AS break to get his S together. Otherwise, this contract is small enough to eat, burp, and move on. The Yankees and RSox would burn a contract like this and roast marshmellows with it, then just keep on going. Giants are making too much money to sweat this kind of deal all season if the guy doesn’t produce. He’s a K machine, with a .311 OBP and .599 OPS. You can’t have that even as a platoon CFer. Just can’t…
Small as the contract is, I can’t imagine the Giants eating any multi-year deal in its first year…
Well I just think Action played a lot of Action at the start of his career.Shit in Detroit starting out he was getting 650 plate appearances in his 1st 4 years,still cranking out a lot of AB’s till the last few years of course at the end of his career the Giants get him.
He’s at 4,400 AB’s now with1,035 K’s só yeah he’s a K machine one every 4 AB’s for his career…
Right in his wheelhouse. Like Kruk said, lucky that wasn’t a bomb.
Seems like every other inning ends with Kuiper saying:
“Giants strand a pair”
Fuckin’ Longo. All these new guys are worthless.
Stratton’s had his head up his ass ever since his wife had that baby
Wives, girlfriends and babies are taking us down…
I’m actually psyched for Pence to return…
the Pimlico racing today is depressing to watch. Wet, gray, foggy, sloppy, awful. Loo is this what the winter was like at Belmont?
Same way here today. You don’t know what dreary is till you’ve spent a winter at Aqueduct.
Just to have something to watch, I’m gonna play one good sized cold exacta GM/J…
i like it. I am playing the super just to have something to watch. It’s 5,7/ 2,3,5,6,7/all/all (.30cents/ $72)
That ball was tattooed. Good play by Parra to get it back in. Gmen need to score here.
Another bad one right there — Blanco heading into his predictable long period of useless ABs. Miller said in his first AB that his BA has been “plummeting” the past 2 weeks. Get ready for more plummet…
great at bat by Craw there
In contrast to yet another crap one by Longo.
Longo has had his moments, too. Bottom line, all these guys are streaky as fuck…
YES! Fantastic at bat!
Giants are doing it against a very, very good pitcher too.
smack this goldilocks muthafucker around!
Yep. The guy is typically solid…one of the top shelf righties in the NL…
I got in about 1/2 hour late, and finally catching-up. I know a lot of us dog Craw, Belt, etc. when they’re going bad, and love them when they find that stroke. It really comes down that almost all of our core guys are just streaky as fuck. You ride out the suckage and bitch about it, but you know they’re gonna get hot eventually. Giants baseball.
It is going to be interesting when they are healthy and get everyone back. I am cautiously optimistic for a good second half of the season. Humm Baby.
I agree. If they can hang on with the current rotation just a bit longer . . . . I guess the thing that cuts both ways is we’ll probably know by the break if optimism has been misplaced.
feels like we can now say, with confidence, “Stratton (who sucks)…”
Haha, nice ball bag placement. Strategically placed bullpens!
Assist by the Sherpas ball bag. lol
McCutchen and Posey can both smoke my pole. RBI guys my ball sack.
Posey’s uninspiring-low energy. Sad.
WTF is Blanco not running on contact right there, with his speed? Sheezus, the Giants act like they don’t even want to score…
Nice of Belt to save Blanco’s ass. Not to mention McSuckcheon and Posey doing squat to get the run in…
He’s thinking, “That triple just bought me another month on the roster.”
Sadly but true Blade..
“The Boch boner effect for Blanco never ends!”
That triple was actually an error on the 1Bman. Should have been an out. A good first baseman gloves that ball no problem, or at least knocks it down…
Month and a week AK after that grab.
That was dumbshit thinking by that pitching coach to leave that baseball bag 💼 in play,thanks for the gift triple and run out of it!
Yeah Belt, make ’em pay for the ball-bag triple!
Pim track announcer just said “the horses may be approaching the starting gate.” Hilarious. Foggy.
WTF was that???
Thanks to Parra, dumbass baserunning, and good throw by Cutch…
And replay.
So for the Preakness they should have “Foghat” sing “Slow Ride”
I rocked to Foghat big time in high school. Good stuff!
Crawsome!
Mudbug! Dude is heating up!
Nobody in baseball is more locked in then Brandon Crawford right now!!
Nice pitching by Johnson, and great play by Specs to end the inning.
Man, watching that piece on the agiants timeline during the break. First game 1885. So this franchise has been playing ball for 130+ years. Damn, that’s a long time….
click on NBC, you can watch them run the Preakness for the 143rd year in a row
Thanks for the heads-up…I’m asleep at the wheel, here….
Ok not much of a Reach, but here’s my Preakness picks:
1 Justify
2 Lone Sailor
3 Good Magic
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Interesting quote Kruk threw out there. I wonder about the origin…
Seneca
I don’t follow the ponies at all, but watch the big races…I have NEVER seen conditions like this. Should be interesting….
And they’re off!
Wow…helluva a race! The triple crown is alive…
That was an entertaining race
Justifoggy.
Lame weekend??? Hope that does not portend into Sunday night Warriors game…
My Boy Jack in the Belmont…
I think it’s over. Justify will win triple crown this year
He may be gassed Flavor, and Belmont can be such a tiring track. They’re not gonna hand it to him.
I remember Campo all but telling people on the backside that Pleasant Colony had nothing left for the Belmont back in ’81…
insightful take with some historic inside info to make your point. Very nicely done.
Although,you can’t really compare anything in this world to 1981 anymore. And Pleasant Colony wasn’t the specimen that Justify is. Still think he’s gonna have a rough time if he even makes the race…
Crawfish is bucking for NL player of the month.
Nice win.
Giants kept scoring throughout the game; that’s the way.
Hits and production from the middle of the LU, that’s good.
Blanco with the golden sombrero. Uh, let’s not have him at leadoff.
Stratton still has the post-partum blues…
Dave Roberts hates Rich Hill. He pulled him in the middle of a perfect game AGAIN!
Actually, Hill left after 2 pitches, haha.
i know. As I said, right in the middle of a perfect game. AGAIN!
Romo struck out the side for his one inning in his first career start.
this growing pussification of starting pitchers is irritating.
lulz.
yes and Roberts one of the worst of trendsetters.
Clubs need to add bonus/incentives to contract for complete game.
Also think after second time on DL in same season it needs to be minimum 60 games.
Juan Marichal is lqtm.
Nats blow the save. The Nats are the Nats.
I talked to a 70 year old Baby Boomer today, great guy, but he blew my mind when he said he’d never heard of Queen or Freddy Mercury. I sang a little bit of Bohemian Rhapsody and he said he’d never heard it before. He did recognize We Will Rock You.
Everything isn’t as widespread as we think. I keep relearning that.
Did you sing the “mama mia” bit?
This part:
“I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
Sparing his life from this monstrosity.”
The guy just shook his head. Had never heard it.
I figured he would have heard it sometime just accidentally.
I’m partial to Fat Bottomed Girls, myself…
Me too. That’s basically the only Queen song I really like. Love the part where Freddy yells out a desperate “Pleassse” in the middle of the “Won’t You take me home tonight” chorus.
Totally missed today’s game. Sounds like a good one. Kills me how much crap Crawdad was getting on here for weeks and now he’s our main man. Baseball is a funny game.
I meant the song, AND the girls.
Mrs. snarkk has always been somewhat gifted in that area…
We got on the subject because we were talking about movies, and I had just seen a trailer for a movie about Freddy Mercury starring the actor from “Mr. Robot.” It looked like he’s terrific in the role.
Williamson with another bomb tonight.
Awright. 2 in 2 nights is enough. Bring him the phuck up now…
Who knows wear the chips fall, but let’s suppose Williamson comes back strong&Pence rediscovers his swing, the MVP of the Giants could easily be Doug Latta the hitting guru that never played past college.Yes baseball, you never know where the real talent can immerge from..
Never saw Queen but they were great live from what I hear.
Stone Cold Crazy is a great song. And Bohemian Rhapsody is as nearly ingrained in the 70s as Freebird.
Get Williamson up here NOW. I can’t stand to watch Actionless anymore.