When the Giants Come to Town, It's Bye-Bye Baby

08.13.2007
Monday Quiz

The worst thing about the weekend was:

A) Getting swept by the Pirates.

B) Barry Zito’s “quality start.”

C) Realizing the Giants best relief pitcher right now is a 31–year-old journeyman scraped off the scrap heap this winter. And the second-best reliever wears his hat like a 12–year-old who thinks prison culture is cool.

D) Watching Tim Lincecum dominate for three innings then fall completely apart, as if the Pirates knew what pitches were coming.

E) Coming home from a month-long vacation to find you left the milk out on the counter.

F) Stepping on the cat while moving furniture. And you don’t even have a cat.

G) Realizing that we are alone in the universe, spinning without purpose on a ball of molten rock, held on by nothing but gravity. I mean, what if gravity suddenly went away? Would the Giants still get a top-five pick in next year’s amateur draft?

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SMALL PRINT UPDATE: Jonathan Sanchez down to Fresno, Brian Wilson up to help the horrible terrible no-good very bad bullpen. Speaking of which, Saturday’s 13–3 strafing was compounded by Bochy’s decision to leave Kline on the mound to absorb punches on a day he had nothing. In other circumstances, he would have been removed earlier, so in a sense you can hang some of Kline’s suddenly ugly stats on his manager.

As for Sanchez, Dave Righetti says he’ll continue to throw in relief at Fresno. Question: do you think Sanchez is better suited as a starter or reliever?



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[August 13, 2007 12:40 PM]  |  link  |  reply
BawLa said

The Gravity of our suck is so great, that not even the real force of gravity can overcome it.

In other words, the top 5 pick is ours. And if we continue to lose to the Pirates, a top 3 pick could be in sight.

[August 13, 2007 1:34 PM]  |  link  |  reply
Jefferson said

If gravity went away, Kevin Frandsen would still find a way to ground into double plays nightly.

[August 13, 2007 1:40 PM]  |  link  |  reply
amoose said

Without a doubt (D). The sweep was foreseeable, the cat odd, but Tim getting rocked after that first inning was devastating.

[August 13, 2007 2:22 PM]  |  link  |  reply
ELM said

I wonder if Lincecum was tipping his pitches.

[August 13, 2007 2:28 PM]  |  link  |  reply
BawLa said

I think it is the G-Rod factor. He doesn't call a good game.

[August 13, 2007 3:37 PM]  |  link  |  reply
JohnnyDisaster said

Maybe Matty Mo had figured out Timmy's tells on the mound and shared that information with his new teammates.

[August 13, 2007 4:17 PM]  |  link  |  reply
ELM said

That's an interesting theory and very plausible.

[August 13, 2007 7:15 PM]  |  link  |  reply
bigO said

on a REAL team, Sanchez is suited best for AAA.

[August 13, 2007 10:44 PM]  |  link  |  reply
F.U.-Jobu said

E) That milk must have been chunky when you tried to pour it out.

I think C) is the best thing about the weekend. We need more guys that "think prison culture is cool." Our guys are too classy and speak too well behind a microphone. I think there may be an inverse relationship between being well-spoken and being a good baseball player (and that's not just a pot shot at Sweeney).

P.S. @bigO: I have Sanchez as the fifth or sixth best pitcher on the team. Check out the list at the right and tell me six better than him. He throws hard.