Forgettable Loss
Outside of Webb’s solidification of his general studness that was just kind of a “meh” game. The bats don’t have the magic they had in them last year. Losing Posey and Bryant will tend to have that affect. I see a lot of low batting averages up and down the line up. And the bombs we hit with such regularity last season, they are fewer and farer between.
Still, on pace to win 90 and that should be fine to get us into the dance. Another deft mid season pick up by Z (hopefully a bat or two) will have us singing “a song, a real song”, deep into the post season.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Strike 4.
Did they play Yellow Submarine for Rodgers?
Hah!! No, they played “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?”
A shutdown inning for Rogers!
That play at the plate with Craw had about three different potential injuries for him.
I’m sure he got them all.
Jocko Homo!!!
Pearl!
Something from Rush there. Not sure why,
Racking my brain, it was Fly by Night.
La Stella got “Space Oddity.” Major Tom, of course.
During someone’s earlier AB, when a ball was fouled off a catcher’s shin-guard, the organist played “Good Vibrations.”
LaStella was the toughest ML hitter to K the year before they signed him. Given those expectations, he looks like he’s Joey Gallo without the power and the walks. What a huge disappointment.
He’s more like Joey Gallo after dinner at Umberto’s…
I feel like we’ve had this exchange before. I guess I really don’t like it when some fuckin’ goombah fucks with Z’s reputation.
We probably have…
I wonder what I’ll post for the HR Derby…
And fairly injury-prone.
Jesus. Brebbia is in the frozen aisle.
Lost In The Supermarket?
Great song!
Happy to see that the organist no longer leads the crowd in the “war chant.” The crowd has to try to get it going themselves, and they fizzle at it mostly. A bunch of drunken guys trying to hit the same musical notes ain’t gonna work.
Fuck. This.
Oh my god.
Giants trying to give it back.
Oh Jesus. What a wonderful display of fundamentals.
LaStella can’t even take the field, it is a wasted roster spot for a team that stresses flexibility on players Though there’s 3 spots Craw,Longo&Belt that don’t move
so your only playing with 6 really..
There’s your SS dilemma going on now! WTF Estrada it’s called ball finds glove they everybody makes but u I guess?
Maybe the slugging won’t be the deciding factor.
Hooooooooo boooooooooooy.
Estrada should get Dr. Strangeglove next time up.
Dodgers took care of the Reds pretty easily tonight.
Chuck “Iron Hands” Hiller made 29 errors at 2nd base in 1962…
I’ll bet there wasn’t anything as ridiculous as Estrada’s play among those 29.
Ha Twin’s buddy Dick Stuart. He was gonna do a bio on him and somehow paperwork got lost.
My parents knew Stuart, who went to Sequoia HS. They were at Sequoia couple years before.
In those days (late 1940s) Sequoia and Paly were only public HS around, and hated rivals.
Carlmont of Belmont didn’t open til 1952 and Menlo-Atherton until 1951.
After the Giants game I’ll be diving into the Churchill biography by Andrew Roberts I’ve been reading for a while. It’s about 1,000 pages long, and I’m at about page 700. The Allied tanks just defeated Rommel’s tanks in Northern Africa.
Old friend of mine is a Churchill expert — his federal judge mentor bent him. Another expert, a rich guy in LA married, I think, to Phyllis Diller, once invited him down to the compound to discuss Churchillian lore and memento. Fuck that. The man was a racist, imperialistic monster who did as much evil as he could until the USA became the dominant realm. He did fight the nazis, that’s true. Even mainstream commentators acknowlege his monstrosity now:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/03/the-dark-side-of-winston-churchills-legacy-no-one-should-forget/
Every fucking ball in play is an adventure.
Belt didn’t look totally comfortable when he stood up.
Of course not. He got hurt watching Leone miss the bag.
Longoria got Billy Joel’s “For the Longest Time.”
Belt got “Hurts So Good”…
Should be Tom Petty “Breakdown “
lqtm.
Old farts like Belt,Craw ,Longo get hurt tying their shoelaces now.Heat in Atlanta doesn’t help those dinosaurs as well.Cranking 102 in San Carlos today though luckily none of that humidity garbage back in Hotlanta..
Belt could end all suspense right here.
Dang it.
He could end suspenders here too.
The dreaded 3 on, none out scenario.
Hey! Atone for the error.
In-Estrada-Da-Vida.
Brilliant!
Estrada always does things to win back good feeling about him.
Looks like James 6:59 is right. Not the slugging but ground attack.
Missed the 0-2 mistake…
Eat shit LaPoopy
Simply not the player who was signed. The injuries didn’t make him swing at a pitch a foot above the strike zone.
InterStella Overpaid.
Hah!!! Yer on fire.
He was on the A’s and Angels and had great year. I liked the guy then and thought he was solid pickup. yuck
maybe that’s what soured Z on giving out 3 yr deals.
And he gets a raise to $11.25M next season…
Willlbuurrrrrrr!
Good old Mr. Ed!
Wilmer makes up for last night’s horrid AB!
MR.ED delivers again!!!Money hit!
Wilmet! gad another runner out on bases.
There’s been a lot of baseball in this baseball game.
Wilmer, thank you!
good effing thing, holy shit
Doval Doval Doval
See my 8:32 AM – or don’t…
exactly. As you said though, other options all leave something to be desired. McGee drove most of blog crazy last season and Leone has been shaky lately as well.
Ringo Starr: “It Don’t Come Easy.”
Duvall > Doval for 2nd straight game.
Finally, yeow.
No Heartbreaker tonight.
Nice to see the offense have a big game.
Doval can be brutal to watch. And slamming your glove to the ground like a 12 year old little leaguer ain’t helping anything, dude.
Rogers gets W. 2 no hit no BB innings with 1 K.
He’s been scored upon in 10 of his 32 appearances. Doval is at 9 of 32. The difference between the two of them is that 7 run inning. I love players like Rogers. There will always be whipping boys who don’t deserve a fraction of the hatred directed at them.
From Mychal Thompson:
Yeah Damm right the T-Wolves deserve a ring!
I commented on that a few days back on how I felt they screwed up by passing on Curry TWICE in order to take Rubio and Flynn in the 2009 draft!
4 Championship Rings later and one of the greatest players of alltime more then justified how the Timberwolves too it up the ass in their draft room that day!
Thanks for Wiggs too another chip piece that worked out just fine without th his great D and clutch scoring in the playoffs!
Yeah, remember that draft. I thought Flynn was nuts for them to take after picking Rubio. Who I wasn’t really sold on either.
Jesus, looking at that 2011 draft is nuts. The Buck drafted Jimmer Fredette (Chinese Basketball League) at 10 and he was subsequently traded to the Sacramento Kings in a deal with Milwaukee and Charlotte involving John Salmons, Beno Udrih, Shaun Livingston, Corey Maggette, and Stephen Jackson.
The T’Wolves drafted Derrick Williams (Israel Premier League) with the 2nd pick.
The Dubs got Klay Thompson with the 11th pick.
not a lot of nba vets out of Wazzu. Over the parade, shit talking and gloating myself.
Doval throwing glove issue addressed by Kap, which is fine. Weird thing is Doval lost track of outs and thought t game was over after fly ball to LF was caught. ?