A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball

I’m not even going to trip on Cinny yet, that series is not going to be a good match up for us. First up is Pittsburgh where we need to take at least 2 or 3. I’m giving us tonight’s game and then giving them the “Welly” game since it’s a road game and he loses his mind on the road—-And the Giants would NEVER throw Bum out there for his first start of the year, they’d run him out at ATT–I actually agree with that philosophy. It still has me doing a slow burn that we are giving a road game away in Pittsburgh. Anyway, then Timmy takes Game 3 just because he’s Tim Freaking Lincecum and he beats the Pirates with up to 5 blisters on his pitching hand…….

Keep McCutchen off the base paths and hope that Garrett Jones strikes out a lot. Their pitching sucks. I’d also like to see Franchez hit about .600 in this series and Pat the Bat come up to club a big bomb or two for us just to remind everyone on the team that it’s ok to lose them over the fence now and again….

I agree with Pawlie on the last thread, their ballpark is amazing. I wish I could take a trip there some day…..

After listening to the long interview he gave about the blown call I have a greater appreciation for what happened and just letting this go. No one feels worse than Joyce. He obviously loves this game and takes pride in being a major league ump. He knows what this will forever do to his legacy in the game. Selig isn’t changing it, it’s just time to move on from all this. In fact, Joyce is taking WAY too much shit for what he did. He blew a call, he didn’t kill anyone or anything. he had tears in his eyes when Galarraga turned in the line up card today. For me, all this ended when that happened. Galarraga ended it by going out to home plate and showing Joyce there are no hard feelings. If he’s going to forgive the guy everyone should. He’s a human being, who hasn’t made worse mistakes than what Joyce did yesterday?

PS–the comments are now restricted to 50 a page to keep the stutter up thing from happening….

Had we gone 0 and 3 I was going to delete the blog and start over. Awesome job by Cain to grind out last night’s win. Benjie and Rowand were skillfully and deftly placed in the line up. 🙂

We are facing another critical section of the schedule. We NEVER play the Pirates well and the idea of trying to bop toe to toe with Cinn in their joke yard isn’t appealing to me in the slightest….

You have spoken and I have listened. Bye Bye TU/TD…

He squared that ball up didn’t he? And that slide from Posey way Pro-Fess-Ion_al!

we could be as bad as the d-backs and the Dodgers are right now. Yesterday they go scoreless thru 9 innings with Kemp hitting a walk off in the 10th. Today, they are scoreless through 13! Christ, if that happened to the Giants the entire blog would be swimming with the fishes off the GG Bridge…..

I’ll post something later about it. I just wanted to get a new post up. We are obviously finding some glitches in the new blog, especially the “upward stutter” thing (it’s actually a lot like “inward singing” –Tenacious D reference, probably nobody got it)….I think the stutter is due to the theme and the number of posts, the tech guys think it will sort itself out. Until I figure it out I’ll throw a few posts up there a day, it seemed to get much worse once we got a lot of post going……..

Also, there are at least 2 of you who I missed on adding into the contest— will update later today.

Ubaldo Jimenez, Jesus Christ. This dude has 10 wins already and what’s he got, 5 or 6 more starts before the all star game? Utterly dominated us, as he has done all season against everyone else. We didn’t learn anything from this game except there’s a clear front runner for the NL Cy Young Award. Timmy has a fun little streak of 5 walks a game, 4 games running. When the fans are saying “at least we can count on winning the Wellemeyer starts” you know we’ve got problems. It’s not an overstatement to say that if Lincecum doesn’t right himself our season is doomed….

Congratuations to DPaintings! He won the mini-contest. MrBillBill took 2nd place. You guys, send me your address and I will get you the mini-Timmy bobblehead (d-paintings) and the mini-black baseball bat (BillBill) out ASAP….

At some point later this morning I’ll add up all the June Contest players and create a page on the right hand side of the blog for them….

This is a great day to switch over to the new blog. We’re fresh off a rousing come from behind victory, we swept the dirrrrty snakes, Posey is up and raking and Andres Torres is God. I guess if Buster is going to be Jesus Christ then God is the only thing left for Torres to be. As I said yesterday, he’s a revelation. We finally have a lead off hitter….

Today we’ve got a pretty boring, run of the mill pitching match up. 🙂

Take a look at the page to the right to see everyone’s guesses for the total number of strike outs between these two studs.

The blog is plain right now but it will be changing in the coming weeks. Fiddle around with it and let me know the things you like/don’t like. There’s a way to sign up as a member or something, I’d do that just to have access to all the options. There are a TON more features here for you than at blogspot.com including lots of administrative features that will come in handy. I’m still learning it myself so bear with me……