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?