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The Walker implosion was unfortunate but I’m not going to blame him for that loss. At some point the offense has to wear this shit. Tell me something, how do we add Adames, Devers and get a full season out of J-H Lee and somehow our offense got WORSE. Last year we had a .701 OPS, this year it’s .684.

Bullpens are going to give up runs. Starting pitchers, too. Scoring 3/0/2 runs against the shitty team is just unforgivable. Fire Burrell. It won’t change anything but we’ll all at least feel a little better.

Well, we beat the White Sox. Whoopee. Playing Crystal Springs with the great San Dawg today. We will have the game on the radio.

At least we had two hall of fame Flappers manning the grounds yesterday. WillieD somehow looks younger now than when I met him 15 years ago or so.

Look at it this way, getting swept by the Marlins at home is going to be the low point of the season. Right? Right?

unca_chuck said, on June 25, 2025 at 9:39 pm (Edit)

our only hope is the marlins go out and get fucked up tonight and are hung over for the day game.

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well said. And what a *hope* that is, aye? Anyone else sick of Doval yet? Again, because he’s fucked up so many games in the past we don’t really have a lot of patience for this guy’s shit. He’s the Niner version of Jake Moody.

I’m still not throwing Justin into the Big Titty Volcano just yet. He wasn’t good but a lot of starting pitchers aren’t good. And it was another winnable game for the team that he pitched in. Matt Williams is there for his gritty manly old school look. I think there’s a decent chance Kate Upton could coach 3rd base better…..

I know you guys follow Jomboy, his breakdowns are just fantastic. This one on the Caitlin Clark fight thing is one of his top 10 in my opinion. Zumiee– what up with your girls, this shit is starting to get out of hand.

Last start was the comeback, start before that he was hurt. He was pitching okay before that. But this is go time vs an average Miami team at home with nice cool pitching weather to pitch in. I’ve given this dude a lot of rope this season but it’s time for results that end in wins….

Annnnnnd…..we’re back to 10 games over .500. For all the hand wringing and doomsday talk about this team, we are 1 of only 8 teams 10 games over .500. Before the season started I think we’d all be thrilled to be 10 games over on June 23rd.

I don’t care what anyone says about Doval, I can’t stand him. Not because he has to be perfect, although that’s kinda the corner he’s backed himself into with all his previous blown saves last year and to start this year. He’s just dumb. Plays with zero sense or care for what’s happening around him or what the moment might call for. That’s the last thing I want out of my closer.

That bomb Devey hit was about 6 feet away from where we were sitting Friday night. I would have displaced nearby humans to catch that ball instead of letting that idiot Sox fan catch it. Dude started flexin’ and reppin’ his shirt. Shit, talk about not appreciating or understanding the moment. What an idiot.

That was rough. And I now remember why I don’t drink tequila anymore.

Also rough….

Anyone who doesn’t think Devers is a team-first guy can suck it. He has proven he can fit right in with the best of the worst hitters around….lqtm

But all that is going to change tonight. Electricity will be in the cool night air and I am expecting that my attendance at the game will nudge the collective offense in the right direction. Birdy will do his thing and Devey will slap an oppo taco right into my open, eager and waiting hands…..

All you need to know about that one was 1 for 13 with runners in scoring position. Devers with a 111mph rocket to the wall gave us a nice little taste of whats to come. Hopefully, more terrible base running isn’t to come. I’m not even going to look it up, I’ll just assume that was the hardest hit ball by a Giant this season. We do not hit the ball very hard, hopefully Raffy changes that.

Still riding the highest of high’s from that heist Buster pulled off on the clueless Red Sox. Look at this explanation from Craig Breslow. Does this make sense to anyone?

“It’s not that this was the best deal that we could get, because the best deal that we could get may not necessarily be good enough to trade a player like Raffy Devers. This is the one that made sense, this is the path that we went down, and we ended up where we did.”

Uh, yeah, ok. Good luck with all of that.

Headed to the game on Friday night. Gotta be there to watch Devers face off with his likely stunned mates. Will be sitting in the LF bleachers and as I texted Loo, Mac and Diggity yesterday I plan on watching Raffy blast one oppo right to me and having it land in my sweet fucking hands. And in case you’ve been wondering, no gents, these hands have NOT been soaking in Ivory liquid. LFG!

Wow. Just WOW. Buster Posey I am looking at you and positively BEAMING!

This is going to go down as one of the most significant moves in SF Giant history. Devers is a true star. One of the best hitters in the game. Honestly, he’s probably just a DH but that’s fine, we can find other gloves to man the field. Look, a guy like Devers was NEVER gonna sign here as a FA. So Buster’s beautiful ass just went out and plucked him right off the apple tree. Fuck the cost to get him. Harrison looks to be pretty stalled out and I got news for him, he ain’t gonna like pitching at Fenway. If he couldn’t pitch at Oracle he ain’t gonna pitch in Boston. He looks like another missed draft pick. Tibbs, eh, whatever, he’s in A ball. And the 250 million owed? Fuck that too. That’s nothing. Go look at Ohtani’s contract if you’re worried about stacks of cash.

Devers is 28. LOL He’s 28! Go look at how old Bonds was when we got him. And I’m not saying Devers is going to be Barry but if you want a premier hitter about to storm into the prime of his career who was NEVER going to sign with the Giants as a FA then I got news for you, Buster just pulled off a miracle. And he’s ours. HE’S ALL OURS!!!! Wooooooohoooooooo!!!!!!

I’ve got the longest knowing dude head nod pointed at Posey and I bow MOST deeply and grandly in his general direction…..

There was some rando soft tossing lefty we had 5 or 6 years ago who would shut the Dodgers down. I forget his name. Nothing special about him at all. I think he pitched later for the Rockies, too. No rhyme or reason to it, but he was just a straight up LA assassin.

Anyway, whatever that guy’s name was I am positive it wasn’t “Landon Roupp.”

I see you Casey Schmitt and I am throwing a long and slow knowing dude head nod your way. He screws up what was probably a game ending double play in Colorado and 24 hours later he’s golfing a ball DEEP into the bleachers in LA. I’m starting to love that kid and I always kinda liked him anyway.

Man, secretly I was just hoping we didn’t get swept. LOL, what a shitty pussy attitude aye? So we crossed that low bar but honestly the rest of this weekend is gravy, baby.

Just a god-awful, horrific loss that we have had many of in Colorado over the years. I hate that place. But now we are on to some actual real baseball in LA tonight. Very interested to see how we do against these guys. They have a lot of injuries, they aren’t the juggernaut they claim to be right now.

Casey Schmitt, goddamn, I’m still watching that defensive play to end the 5th, it was one of the best plays I’ve ever seen a 3rd baseman make.

That umpire was horrible. Don’t matter to our boys.

I know the win is important but honestly I’m just looking for our elite bullpen to not get torched too much in Sherpaland before we get to LA. Bivens eating some innings helped it be a more normal game. Adames blasting one is a nice start as is seeing Casey get going. We’re gonna have to count on him big time with Chappy out.

Giants are -235 to beat Colorado tonight. Shit, in Colorado? I wouldn’t touch that game. Hopefully we sneak out of here with a sweep without destroying our bullpen. LA looming. I’m actually really interested to see how we do against them.

I didn’t really fault Buster, his hands were tied, there wasn’t much he could do. Our AAA team is a wasteland. Publicly he had to have felt a twinge of shame calling up 3 guys who were basically deck chairs on the Titanic. Many fans quietly murmured “this feels like a Farhan move”……

But goddamn, for better or worse, their influence or lack thereof, the team hasn’t looked back since he did it.

Earlier this week it felt like this team was done. Now we can’t stop winning in the most improbable of ways. Strider is still fumbling around trying to find his way this year. Let’s win another one.

Silly way to win a game but every team gets those across the course of 162. Agreed on the psychotherapy for Adames and add Yaz and Bailey for some group therapy action.

Doval got it done. Even overcame some umpire nonsense to do it. I still don’t like him.

This guy I like….

Can’t say I was that impressed with those 3 moves but Jett Johnson sure showed up to play yesterday. Obviously none of those guys are home grown. Looking at our AAA hitters it is just an absolute wasteland. It’s almost like they tried to put together the shittiest AAA team they could find.

But hey, for 1 day Jett shined. Hope he keeps it up.

It would be easy to continue to be negative about this team but we really should stop to appreciate how awesome this pitching has been.

Doval is a little like our fucking kicker, Jake Moody. Like, even if he gets it going again, as soon as he begins one of his predictable meltdowns it’s very easy to want him out of his role. There’s just no margin for error for either of those dudes.

And that’s why neither of them should have the jobs they have. Cut Moody and put Doval back in his set up role. He seems to be ok at that.

WSWW….