Rough Patch
6 games down. BoMel went off in the post game presser but I don’t see what good it will do. Farhan has built a team that, shockingly, isn’t good at anything. We are slow. We are weak. We play bad defense. And worse yet, no one seems to give a shit except maybe Webb.
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I’ll say again that Ahmed’s injury caught Farhan flat footed with no legitimate or ready shortstop to take the position. Accordingly, the position has been a disaster. SS is a foundational defense position, bad play there sets a bad tone. That’s not Melvin’s fault, he can only try there the pieces he’s given…
https://x.com/codifybaseball/status/1798372213332295697?s=46&t=k0FDC_rVBvlG86Y-OHTiNQ
Looked good on paper, but the show on the field is fair to poor. Soler and OTS being the biggest disappointments. 29-27 looks like the high-water mark. Defense is an actual joke. How many players can come up from AAA and be absolute butchers?
Harrison did make it through 6 and deserved better fate. Got some Ks with changeup and kept ball in the yard. Was 4-2 game when he left. Giants have played all the guys who were in Sac or previously in AA ball at same position (Luciano Fitz Schmitt), and as Zum said none of them have done well enough defensively to take the job from Ahmed, a guy I can fully live with.
seems like plan was to give Luciano time in Sac (34 games this year after 18 last year and 56 in Richmond) before Ahmed got hurt May 9. At that point Luci was next man up.
Errors at SS will kill you, but losing your likely rep in the AS game to a hamstring strain will too.
Definitely. Z tried to add regular CF, SS power hitting DH and 3b (and pitching) in off season with only partial success. Losing highest OB guy in league with all the other injuries hurts.
“Felicidades a Mr. Afinque” from former lead singer Gilberto Santa Rosa to bandleader Willie Rosario May 6 2024 on his 100th birthday. Loved his music since 1975 LP “Otra Vez”. Was listening to vid of hit “Anuncio Classificado” with singer Primi Cruz from 1990 last night as things went south in game, and noticed in comments I’d missed b-day. Always loved the sound w front line of 3-4 trumpets and baritone sax by guys like Shep Pullman and Jose “Beto” Tirado.
You can say the same about Wade.His injury is even more worse then the 3 Stooges playing SS.I really appreciate Mr.Ed He’s been clutch money for years with the Giants but his best baseball is behind him unfortunately.Giants can’t sadly manage squat without him spark starting this LU.I never could figure out this team even in the past like Pagan, one guy goes out and the whole team sulks and craters..
Only 2 guys have stepped it up and it’s Ramos&Chapman you need more than that to win games other then Bailey staying consistent I don’t see anyone else doing the job.
And wtf did Melvin start Conforto over Fitzgerald against the Lefty? He got his 0-4 the prior not against a RH pitcher now another 0-4 and fuck this that Melvin probably wants to get him as many AB’s BS right now!
And Also FUCK having Luke I give up Nukes Jackson on this pitching staff.His stuff is beyond terrible, batting practice meatballs every opponent is licking their chops and running to the bat rack to face his sorry ass.I’m praying he’s one of the next DFA moves and take that 6.66 Exorcist ERA to a place like Pittsburgh are Whitesox’s where careers end like yours..
From what I read, Pat the Bat said Bonds helped Chapman get out of his slump, maybe Barry should work with Soler a bit as well. And I don’t know who the infield coach is, but maybe Matty could drill some shit into these guys.
Williams did play some SS early in his career, it couldn’t hurt.
I heard Matt Williams say on KNBR about 10 days ago that he is the infield coach. So, I don’t know what that makes Wotus, he was the infield guru for about 2 decades …
Wotus was retired but I think they use him like a special assistant coach (like Bonds).
The Giants don’t have anyone listed as the INF coach, so it probably is Matt. Maybe Wotus should come in as the extra special INF coach.
From A-ball on up coaching should work on the basics for all position players. Batting practice wouldn’t hurt either.
You;d kinds think that’s what is going on, but based on how these guys come up, they are playing cards all day.
Well, the ChiSox have lost 12 straight, so the Giants are only half that bad…
No, they are just half-fast. They’ll get there!
And of course back to the old out with the new..
Austin Slater is back and playing CF and leading off today, as Luis Matos optioned back to Sac..
Fitzgerald gets the 3 stooges SS spot today…
OK, we can expect Slater to provide immediate and continuing veteran offensive energy, right? Let’s hope so, this team needs that and a bushel of 60’s greenies in the clubhouse…
Yep. I mean, the energy was so startling before Ramos and Matos came up.
Bore core > Snore core.
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Now, my Edit function suddenly has returned, and I don’t have to submit a password on every post. And, I did nothing to make that happen…
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Lulz…
To put things into perspective just think how many games we would lose if we put today’s line up out there then. That was the first time in the history of the club to lose 100 games. At least I think it was. I guess it’s more of a testament to the status of the game today.
1985 San Francisco Giants
Opening Day StartersBob Brenly
Chris Brown
Chili Davis
Dan Gladden
David Green
Atlee Hammaker
Johnnie LeMaster
Jeffrey Leonard
Manny Trillo
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I guess there must be a word in there. Thanks
Fun fact: there are currently only four teams in the NL over .500.
Melvin did the performative stuff a manager will do in that situation.
Billy Martin was an epic destroyer of the spread. Food would get hurled all throughout the clubhouse, often landing on the players.
Today’s managers don’t destroy the spread. It’s seen as too crazy.
Do it after everybody has a shot at filling up their plates. Less wasteful…
Slater with the comebacker. Yay…
Soler Ks again, with guys on 2nd, 3rd. Swinging at crap in the dirt.
He’s just a huge nothing in the lineup.
Worst DH in MLB — either that or in the top 3, I would guess.
I suppose they are just willing to wait the whole season for this guy to get something going at the plate. Else, who would take him in a trade?
Dude hit 36 HRs last year. Seems like a very long time ago.
And on cue Melvin’s outburst had no effect on mental approach being stronger.playing better baseball yada yada as Hicks gives up a balk on engagement rule who does that after 2 tries?( 1st in baseball) trying to pickoff Corbin then gives up the hit to knock him in..
Great grab by Ramos saving a run ..
Ramos!
Ramos feelin’ it.
2-run dinger, plus great catch…
That’s my top of the order guy RAMOS launching a bomb after saving a run last inning!!!2-1 with Slater even contributing with a single..
Yeah nice play by Ramos. And lift off! Single (by Slater lol everyone’s whipping boy) HR single.
Luis Matos was 6-45 with 2 BBs. He has 2 HRs and 0 SBs. OB for season is 247. In other words no power no speed can’t get on base. Hasta. I hope he can figure things out, but no reason to give him “300 ABs” at ML level. None, with zero track record behind him-he’s getting his ass kicked at plate and pressing, with no discipline. Fitz at least can run and is better hitter.
cast a cold eye. And you’re right, I’m sorry to say. Slater may be better at this moment and that ain’t good.
And I don’t have much use for Slater either, more than platoon vs. LHP/defensive back up. But Matos got into a funk and couldn’t get out of it, unfortunately.
Time to earn your money, Soler.
Thats a start.
Wilmer needs to do something here, bags loaded…
how’s that? Yeah!
Yep, grand slam will do !
WILMER!
Wilmet ! Off the schneid, finally
Ain’t gonna lower Montgomery’s 5.48 ERA coming in either. DBax on hook for $25 million this year plus he has vesting option for next year after 10 starts (this is his 7th) for $20 million more.
didn’t James put a Mr Ed widget somewhere over on the sidebar? That big fly deserved a pull out all the stops meme.
Mr.Ed goes breaking ball and slams is out for the GrandSlam!!!
Dude is clutch, forgive me Wilmer thinking u were washed..
Man they really worked over Monty knocking him out..
Finally, a laugher (I hope) . . . Anyone remember Mauch saying this?
“Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump. If you lose at the end, you’re choking.”
Lol Blade ..And Mauch sure knew The choke part to perfection.
I agree. I liked the guy AK, and I distinctly remember EVERYONE saying he was a mastermind and the best manager in MLB when he managed . . . but he didn’t win squat.
Fun fact: DBax at 29-32 coming in have exact same record as…Bochy’s defending WS Champ Texas Rangers, team that whipped them 4-1 in last year’s WS.
every time the camera touches on Soler in the dugout he looks relaxed, alert and intelligent. At the plate? Not really.
That was the weirdest sequence of balls&strikes on the last 2 batters that Hicks struck out.Strikes that should of bet called, balls that were strikes this umps zone is all over the place..
Ump scorecard will be all over map if first 4 innings any indication.
Sucks for Hicks getting squeezed so hard he can’t win this game now.
Im curious if he got Joc out if he would of pitched the 5th? Definitely a bad grade for this umpire!
Now it’s the vulture Highway to Hjelle to qualify hopefully for a W..
HTH & OTS are great nicknames…
Ramos with another hit.
Giants need to hold on and win this game…
Ramos Fizz continues to sizzle with the bat!
Giants got that reversed at 2nd by a blaze of dirt.
Soler can’t catch a break…
The ump sucks, but getting NO runs home with zero outs and bags loaded is typical 2024 Giants. That bodes ill for keeping this game in hand…
Well they have the play to 3rd down with baseloaded down to perfection now 2 outs ferchrissakes.. and of course they don’t score as the umpire screws Yaz ball 4 as he pops out with Melvin screaming away to deaf ears..
That was call, Giants keeping Fitz over Matos. already today he’s been on been on base twice and stolen a bag. No idea who every day SS is or if Melvin goes mix/match (L/R with Schmitt and Wisely) til Ahmed is ready.
Umps are screwing us over?
Next, the pen implosion?
All the things Kapler got crucified for, fence post is doing.
Ay you questioned “hate” and yet here we go again…fencepost BoTard MelTard. Enjoy the game, and hopefully keep blood pressure under control.
My BP is fine. Enjoy the game. Root for the laundry. Wheeee!
Whatevs. I have higher hopes for the team that charges $18.00 for a beer and tries to tell me that they are in it to win it.
LF Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is hitting .238 w OPS of .668. Last year in first season with DBax it was .772 and he had 24 HRs and 35 doubles. so far stuck on 8 HRs (including 1 Monday) 11 doubles.
Maybe we can trade Slater for him.
Well we know who are everyday LF is and it’s Ramos on base 5 straight times today..
OPS well over .900 now right? And he can run and field and throw too. Hmmmm. Conforto would be a good backup and LH DH. I’m afraid, however, we’ll see Ramos mainly in RF with Yaz and slater platooning CF.
And, you ride with Matos. Fuck Slater. We KNOW what he is. And that’s not much. The continuance of the yo yo bullshit is beyond stupid.
Bemoan Matos and his 4-52 struggles?
Well, what about Slater’s season?
5-39!!!!! .128.
Yeah, maybe he’ll get HOT!!!
Or maybe it’s more of the same shit till he pulls an eyelid in the on-deck circle.
Look at it this way–if he is OK on what limited ABs he’s going to get, Slater (who does have track record in career vs. LHP) could be moved. Matos and his .577 OPS, no but he still could be in play for next year or later this year if he can get regular PT and get himself together. Baggs said earlier Giants aren’t ready yet (key word) to dump Slater after 39 ABs this season. Yet, eh? There’s so many more important issues on this team, like starting pitching for one, than Slater. Obsessions over this guy by Giants fans are creepy.
No, we are just tired of people carrying his jock or no particular reason. Like Belt for so long, there wasn’t much there and the mediocrity went on and on.
And it rings true what I said. Melvin is supposed to be the ‘baseball guy’. He’;’d bring back the fundamentals. He’d get us away from the errors, and platooning, and odd pitching changes.
Like Blade posted, same as it ever was.
Does he have a glove? Is it his fault every SS he put out there after Ahmed got hurt, and even Fitz before that, flubbed routine grounders? Didn’t realize managers his age were supposed to play field too. Even after all the injuries they’re right near playoffs.
Rogers through the 8th, with just a hit batter, and a really good play by Chapman. I’ll take it…
Estrada is back, baby.
He’ll be ready to park middle in mistakes this weekend.
Hey now. They may actually win this one.
Got em, dats a win.
Day off down in Texas, not sure what there is to do in Arlington, wine with Boch I guess or there is always room service.
The Pirates shelled Paxton and they have scored 7 runs early, while the Dodgers have scored two runs off of Skenes so far.
Angel Reese, with her big false eyelashes, decided to get snippy about Clark, too. Whatever.
Clark has doubled the average attendance in every one of her road games so far.
the big eyelashes are fashionable with Black women now, right? My son’s indigenous GF wears them too, though not the largest ones. They look good. Didn’t maga racist MT Greene attack Rep Jasmine Crockett on the house floor over her (Rep Crockett’s) big false eyelashes? Vexed subject, you know?
For me, when WNBA players play the games wearing false eyelashes and/or lipstick, it makes me take their league less seriously. That’s probably just me getting to be an old geezer.
Yeah I remember the uproar over Latrell’s and Iverson’s cornrows. One facet about Clarkmania that requires attention is the same problem that justified Spike Lee in Do the Tight Thing dressing the local obnoxious white jock in a Larry Bird jersey.
it’s hardly restricted to black women. I know lots of Hispanic women and white women who wear those.
I do know Latinas who wear the big lashes. And I have seen white women on my family Facebook feeds wearing them as they posed for selfies at concerts. Are there any white WNBAers who wear them during games?
The only issue I had with the NBA players was the tattoo thing got overboard for a while. Some players got tattoos on their necks and faces. It was unpleasant to look at.
Baseball had the problem of nauseating tabacco-spitting, which grossed out a lot of potential women viewers. Getting rid of the chewing tobacco was healthier for the players, but also made the sport easier to market to women.
A huge percentage of nba players have neck tattoos, right? And I don’t think prissiness is ever a good thing, but then I also despise most marketing strategies.
The marketing is important. There are so many viewing options for consumers.
The Beatles were an unstoppable force, like the Celtics in the 1960s. Millions of young people saw them on the Ed Sullivan show and the juggernaut was on. The Beatles didn’t need much typical marketing. A case could be made that their movies were marketing, but A Hard Day’s Night is a great movie in its own right. Roger Ebert included it in his list of the 25 best movies of all time. It runs quite often on the TCM network.
Yeah the screaming girls loved them. These days I guess it’s Taylor S.
I heard Mary J Blige on the Berkeley hip hop oldies radio station the other day. Pretty damn good. Beats the hell out of stuff like REM.
Also, I was 11 (and in England) when the Beatles released their first single Love Me Do. I actually remember Beatlemania. The furor over Bob Dylan at the time was a lot more interesting.
Chapman is coming in for the Pirates. Yikes.
Chapman went 103 on Ohtani for strike three.
Then Chapman gives up a run.
Bucs defeat the Bums.
Nice win 1-2 is a lot better than 0-3…
Good strong snap of the losing streak.