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Sure enough, all our worst fears for that game came true. Conforto with a bomb. Our hitters cobbling together a whopping THREE hits in 10 innings. And then Bailey does that thing he always does in the last inning.

I woke up marveling at pitching. What makes a guy like Verlander so successful for so long? Even at 42 years old he’s still pitching great. How is he so remarkably different from guys like Seymour or Brebbia or freaking Mike LaCoss. LaCoss won 98 games in his career and all I remember about him is fuming over his starts and calling him Mike LaLoss.

All these guys make it to the major leagues, the highest of the the highs in their field. And they were all outstanding pitchers at lower levels across their lifetimes. And yet they achieve such vastly different levels of success. Think about it, every pitcher in the major leagues was lights out in high school, the BEST pitcher on their team and probably the entire league.

Anyway, it’s really been a pleasure to get to catch a glimpse of this guy’s Hall of Fame career this year. How is he still bringin’ it at 42?

This guy is nasty. NASTY. But at least we have LA in our yard so that’s a huge advantage for us lqtm.

Eh, what the hell, I’m calling for a sweep. Why not? After we sweep LA anything could happen.

I got a message from my childhood buddy Hubles that he and his wife Donna were going to the game yesterday. An ominous cloud struck down my otherwise hopeful mood. Hubles and Donna are huge Giants fans. But they are the cooler’s cooler when it comes to attending games in person.

I accepted our fate early in the game….

This morning I asked him if he’d stop going to games this year (he lives in Sacramento so it’s a hike anyway). I begged him, “please, radio only till they get to 81.”

Because of our lifelong friendship, he agreed…..

Is this really happening? How is this happening? Is it time to sign BoMid and his sidekick Pat the Bat to an another extension? Lol.

Is the $168 I spent on a ticket for the final game of the year now gonna start looking like an underpay?

Listened to most of that one on the radio. Did not expect a comeback win with Webby so shaky early on. 8 more wins needed for me but let’s get greedy and over 81. How many can this team win especially with the woeful Rockies to close out the season at home?

This tweet made me lol and I’m all about it…

There isn’t much more you can say about Moody. He has to go. I didn’t listen to Kyle’s presser did he defend him again? If so, pathetic. Kyle always thinks he’s the smartest person in the room. My experience with people who say “stuff” all the time as he does is that those people are not the smartest people in the room.

Not to get too dramatic but if you watch Purdy scramble on that TD throw to Tonges the scrambling reminded me of Montana scrambling just before he threw The Catch. I know his throw wasn’t the same but he bought time and drifted beautifully just like Joe did.

Carstie Clausen	5:27 AM (1 hour ago)
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Well, it was fun while it blasted.  Never in my Giants fixation since 1954 have I witnessed such a schizo performance from the team.  Yesterday’s fiasco finale with the Saint Louis bluuz was the

 teller.

So we caught a premo performance from the Old Master on the mound who held them off for inning after inning…finally hanging up the glove and spikes deep into the game.  What WAS the almost bulletproof bullpen early in the season, featuring seasoned holds and stoppings during the early weeks, eroded via trades and injuries into something of a shaky shambles…culminating into a display of incompetence in that 9th inning fiasco.

 The vibe went south again.  We got a couple of patchwork runs early in the contest, but no master-blasters from the homer happy honchos.  Two zip for inning after inning got me a bit nervous.  Sure nuff.  Was leery about Walker as a closer after catching his games right on through the season.  Decent enough in a set-up role.  It seemed, though, that the lack of oomph on the part of the guys with the sticks must have touched a nerve or two.

 French call it “sang froid”.  Translated into Amerenglish it would be icewater in the veins.  Even the eight out of ten exercises by Doval maintained the vibe.  But not so on Saturday in the burg with the arch.  Currently that dude is heaving the pill for Noo Yawk.

That’s entertainment. The Golden Gate still stretches across the void.

 Off season there’s gonna be a plethora of position players…particularly talented outfielders all jockeying for a spot on the roster.  Then there’s the masher first-sacker doing his stuff in Sacktown and around the PCL.  

 Going into this season Los Gigantes was full up with pitchers galore, both in The Show and through the pipeline.  Now though, the mounders are a bit short-suited.

 Trade winds will hoot and holler.  Maybe a bit of action in the free-market scene.  Likely we are gonna miss Whillmerrr.  He’s been kinduva good-luck charm.  One day back in the daze he led MLB in Rib-Eyes.  He sure has a knack for knocking them in.  But it’s a business proposition and likely no room in the inn for a fist full of D.H.es.

 Will the Old Master stick around?  If not, will the prime targets be a #3 starter along with a couple of competent bullies to replace the injured and the traded?

 Giants got three guys with sparkplug tendencies. Woo Lee has settled in as a barrel banger who quit trying to not only to hit it hard but also over.  We need those doubles and triples. Hellcat Ramos draws walks like bright night lights suck in the bugs.  That new guy we got from Noo Yawk, Gilbert, is a balls to the walls kinda hitter.  Lots of steam in that engine.

 Plenty of longball pizazzaz…Maybe a slight overload…particularly for a joint like Oracle. I don’t like that name, but business is business.

 Pair of Aces, but R.R. seems to be getting a bit short of steam.  But if the locomotive is barely rounding the bend, our Horse of course is pacing the pack for innings pitched and is well up there on special K’s .  Roupp currently outta action and Birdsong struggling to get the sweet back in his tweet.  

 Is the fix in for twenty-six?  Gonna be interesting to follow the moves during hot-stove months.

 Could there develop a come to Jesus situation for Bailey’s alter-ego?  That particular recent East Coast import is not a Big Bopper, but Christ on a Crippled-Creek Crutch, he has this tendency to have a skyrocketing OBP…and as a catcher, he steals bases at a pretty good pace. Check out his stats with the River Cats.

 For next season, the team needs to establish balance…in all departments…particularly speed on the base-paths.  Not looking to go that way, though.  Big Boppers snag all the headlines. So maybe, the baseball media will pay more attention next go-round.  

That is freaking hilarious. Who could have predicted this after an entire summer of smoking pole?

Ok here we go, if this run stalls it will be because our pitching staff is in shambles. Seymour today, then Verlander, then I don’t know. Teng?

Talk about the best revenge. Matt Chapman, come on down! This Gilbert thing is truly surprising me. After starting like he didn’t belong up here he’s been our best hitters not named Devers or Adames. What if this was real? What if this is all real? Shit, I only need to get to 81 but what if they…..keep…..winning?

There are bitches. And then those bitches each have a bitch. And that bitch’s name is Kyle Freeland. Goddamn what a pussy. Devers doesn’t look at him, doesn’t ever stop after he hits the ball. He fucking looked at it. HE LOOKED AT IT! lol.

I am going to be irritated if Chapman and Adames get days. I like that they had Devers’ back but Freeland was walking away with the ump at that point. Running out there and shoving him was not smart.

The most perfect of all the .500’s….69-69….now just 12 glorious wins to go to drag Big Flavor across the finish line….

Really surprised to see Teng have success like that. His sweeper was MOVING and you just rarely see that at that altitude. On the radio they said he had something like 89 k’s in 50 something innings in the minors. He doesn’t throw very hard so that is an impressive K/inning ratio.

Webb today!

Really happy for Adames who did his usual underwhelming shit to start the season only to turn out exactly as we expected. 30 home run guys don’t grow on trees and we should know having not seen one since Bonds. He’ll get there this year.

Baseball is a hard game to predict. On Friday we drub them. On Saturday we get drubbed. On Sunday we go back to doing the drubbing.

As bad as Colorado is I always hate going there from Oracle with them waiting in Colorado (in other words, with them just finishing a series there). It gives them a climate advantage for the first game. Still, they are terrible and smoking them like an old lady smoked a cigarillo in the 70’s should be the most likely outcome. If I’m gonna hit 81 games this year I need them to win at least 2 of these, preferably a sweep……

Well, nothing crushing hope like an 11-1 drubbing. I love how Homer Kruk is like “yeah the start time is really going to affect these bats” but it seems to have only affected one team’s bats.

I turned on the radio in the 2nd or 3rd and Kruk goes “98 MPH slider PAINT at the knees. That’s an unhittable pitch.” And I’m thinking “hey, ok, let’s go, Seymour must finally be DEALING” only to find out he’d just given up 4 runs.

I’m not gonna lie, I looked at the wild card standings this morning. Why not? Don’t cost nuthin’. The elusive dream of .500 is but one win away….And we have our great opener Carson Seymour leading the way today. I’ve never felt more confident in my entire life…..

With James stepping up and helping the team take another step towards 81 wins this year I am truly getting excited about this upcoming series. This is going to be razor thin all the way to the wire. I know all the Flappers stand in unison with me.

Baltimore has been a horrific disappointment this season I can’t imagine they’re too invested in winning anything right now. And with our group of vets freshly relieved from any pressure to win I am expecting a solid effort from the team this weekend.

Drubbing is a great word. Here we are, after taking all the pressure away and looking into the mirror of truth of who they really are this season…..they begin to win games. And while the win streak is modest, it’s against 2 of the best teams in the league.

And it begs the question…..where were these guys all Summer?

this post is gonna haunt me all winter, isn’t it?

They are significantly better than we are. Factor in us having to play them in our own home park and we are really up against it in this series.

Man, we haven’t had a game like that in what seems like forever. Miller was awesome on the radio in that 9th inning. He genuinely got me excited about the team again even if it was just a fleeting moment.

Sadly, we now return home where all we do is lose.

Day off to prepare for that letdown.

Now that we are hopelessly out of it I could see the Giants starting to play well again. Win just enough to save BoMid’s job. I hope I’m wrong but the season just has that feel to it.

Adames hits two bombs and we still lose. There’s no bottom to this season.

Turns out we played yesterday. I thought it was an off day for some reason. Man, straight from SD to Milwaukee. No rest for the wicked (losers).

Brewers are only -180 to beat us tonight. LOL. Should be -500.

We added Devers, Adames and got a full year out of the Hooligan. And we got worse than last year. How?

That’s 3 games in a row where they have scored in exactly one inning each game. ONE inning.

Giants have started a pattern where they score in the first inning never to be heard from again. Someone tell the bats there are 8 more after that one.

Giants score 4 in the first and then gear it down and cruise to a 4-3 win. I just want them to get to 81 wins. Who’s got odds on that?

Had forgotten what the felt like.

Listen to this idiot. Our manager is bummed we have to take the field again tomorrow.

I honestly don’t get how anyone could support BoMel at this point. If you do, I’m putting you on the spot: tell me why? And don’t give me any bullshit about “he can’t hit the ball or pitch the ball or throw the ball.” What has he done THIS YEAR that you think has been a reason (or reasons) to keep him? Obviously Buster extended his good buddy but hiring your friends and keeping them around even when they fail at their job is probably more of a hole in your own game than something to highlight.

I picked this game up on the radio when they were down 7-0. Driving around, ticking off errands….now it’s 10-0. I keep listening. And I’m like, “why am I listening to this? I bet the bone is playing something rad on 107.7”. So I click over there and Thuderstuck was rockin’ the airwaves and all of a sudden I was happy again.

I can’t imagine paying money to see this joke of a team.

What 3 words would you guys use to describe this shitty, unwatchable team?

Afternoon KNBR guys were discussing this: If you don’t want to talk about what Melvin has done to lose his job how bout we discuss what he has done to keep it? Buster gives this ghost an extension, for no fucking reason whatsoever, and the team goes into a tailspin. Literally. They’ve been the worst team in baseball since he did this. What has Melvin done to deserve AN KEEP this esteemed job?

I’ve said this many times before, Buster’s biggest hole in his game is his loyalty to his friends. You can’t do that when you’re the man in charge. Tough decisions have to get made all the time. And you can’t have them colored by friendship.

BoMel has to go…….

If Verlander pitches well we lose. If he pitches poorly we lose. Only a fool would keep running this loser out there at this point.

Huge game. I simply will not tolerate losing 2 of 3 to the shitty Nats at home. Verlander will bring his A game. Lol. I hope. Gore can be tough when he’s on. Expect lots of K’s today….

https://x.com/JonHeyman/status/1953972088777375940

that one caught me off guard a bit. I even looked it up. Sure enough, it’s true.

What a refreshing game to watch. We win at home against a terrible team. I’m sorry I ever took it for granted.

Honestly, this homestand scares me. Forget for a min we lost 6 straight in the last one. Washington has one of the worst pitching staffs in the league. Why do they scare me? We should smash those arms all over the yard. But still……Padres are obviously going to be tough. And Tampa is just one of those teams that always plays hard as fuck no matter what their record is.

Well, they held on. Butto–Walker—R-Rod. If those 3 can cobble together something useful in the last 3 innings we just might have a chance of finishing over .500 this year. And that would be an accomplishment.

Despite the fact that we should have won 5 of the last 6 it should still feel pretty good winning the first 2 series’ on the road…..

Now a 9 game homestand which will tell us how exciting September might or might not be.

Everyone got a hit in the line up. When was the last time that’s happened? How do you even look that up? I’d love to know the answer.

I know this is crazy to say but I am not giving up on the season. When you have 2 aces (Webby and Ray-ey) and a HOF #3 is has been pitching like a legit #3 lately you really aren’t ever done.

I watched that loss on the Score app on my phone. No sound. No video. Just green and red dots sprinkling the screen around a pretend strike zone with the run total for Pittsburgh clicking upward one by one. After Bart won it I just quietly put the phone down. Why can’t we find a pitcher who can actually close a game successfully? And don’t fucking say “We had Doval” he was one of the worst we’ve ever had in terms of fucking shit to hell on the reg.

You know what, fuck it, just enjoy the game day to day. I’m hoping for over .500 by the end of the year. I mostly like this team so it’s not hard to root for them. Easily more appealing than the Farhan days.

Chuck, I had a ticket to the show on Saturday but couldn’t swing it. Would have been hilarious to run into you there.

Ok, so maybe it’s not Doval’s fault….

He still sucks and I’m glad he’s gone….

But, our bullpen is now in predictable disarray without him or Rogers.

At least it’s an interesting start with The Wiz today. Any of our NY Flap contingent going?

Here me out…it’s all been Doval’s fault. Bad body language. Bad luck. Bad karma. Bad juju. Bad everything. And now that he’s gone and doing the same thing to the Yankees the tide has turned in our favor. Fortuna spineth upwards.

Any chance this is how it’s all going down?

Butto, Tidwell, Gilbert, Marte, Rodriguez, Vrieling, Harbor, de la Rosa……

When you put it that way, it feels kinda underwhelming.

But it went about as I’d expected. We moved Yaz and Doval. Kept Verlander.

We got 8 guys who none of us have ever heard of. Hope one or two of them work out.

Below .500. And sinking further. They say we got a good haul for Rogers. Eh, whatever. Apparently, Verlander is on the table. I could see that, even though he’s only got the 1 win he’s clearly still got the velo (for an old man) and there are probably playoff teams out there who would want his experience for the stretch run.

Who else do we have to trade? Maybe Yaz to Boston just to give their fans a little of the old “feels”? Doval? Oh pretty please!

Disastrous year any way you slice it. I can’t remember a Giants team that ever went from the best team in baseball (record wise, you can look it up they had the best record at one point***April 26th they had the 2nd best record with a .643 win %) to the worst team in the league. In the same season.

Pathetic.

Didn’t see the game, was traveling back to the Bay Area. Box score indicates more of the same although we finally got Wizzy up here. That wreaks of desperation which, I suppose it’s time for. Melvin is a ghost. How can a ghost be reasonably expected to lead the living out of this deep hole we are in?

That was a tough one. Yes, they only scored 1 run (again). But The Hooligan’s ball was a home run in 29 other parks. And Bailey smashed his. It just got caught.

Bad luck.

Well, that didn’t work. Shut down by a bunch of rando’s in our own park and Webby checks in with his third shitty start in a row.

Concerning…..

Didn’t see it but the box score looks real real nice. And JV finally tied Hubie Doobie for 1 win each this year.

I guess there’s some things you miss if you don’t actually watch the game. To wit:

djloo27 said, on July 23, 2025 at 11:50 am (Edit)

You ask me if there’ll come a time
When I grow tired of you,

Devers my love, Devers my Love…

Can’t get shit like that from just reading the box scores.

Golf all day after the drugs kick in. Later.

Seriously, what happened. I have a vague recollection that it starts with a W but after that I got nuthin’.

Agree with James about Schmitt. If he has learned to even pretend to lay off those breaking balls then he’s going to make it up here and be incredibly valuable to that line up. Goddamn he hits long home runs when he hits them.

I still don’t understand the point of Devers at first base. He’s going to give up more runs with his shitty defense than he’s going to produce with his bat although I admit that yesterday was a good start.

Kruk was on KNBR yesterday morning saying all of Birdsong’s problems were mechanical (shocker) and that we’d know in the first inning if he’d figured them out or not over the break.

0.0 innings completed.

I guess we got our answer.

Well, at least Elder only struck out one, he struck us out 12 times back in May.

Progress?