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

09.26.2007
Post-Game 9/25: Cain's Nutshell

Padres 6, Giants 4: How fitting that in Matt Cain’s last start of the year, heCain gives up two runs in seven strong innings, and the bullpen blows it for him. A guy behind me in the bleachers cursed Bruce Bochy for making Brian Wilson pitch more than an inning. Please.

Curse Bochy instead for not putting Barry Bonds in the game, even as a pinch-hitter. This morning’s reports said Bonds hit BP Monday and looked OK. There were at least a couple moments in tonight’s game that were Barry-appropriate. Needless to say I wasn’t at the edge of my seat all night waiting for that key Scott McClain at-bat.

Fine, so Barry will start Wednesday. What about the 35,000 who went tonight hoping at least to give him one last standing O? I have to wonder if Bonds didn’t play because Bonds didn’t feel like it. If so: Weak.

PLODAG: Matty Cain Cain. See you next year, big guy. Work on your swing over the winter if you want more offensive help next year. (Photo credit: David Paul Morris of the SF Chronicle. Buy the paper. Hire David for your wedding. Make them happy that I’m using their intellectual property in a nonprofit fashion.)
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[September 26, 2007 10:15 AM]  |  link  |  reply
obsessivegiantscompulsive said

That's why I usually steal, er, post photos from the sfgiants.com site, I figure I'm promoting them anyway. :^)

Yeah, that's his season in a nutshell, Murphy's Law in action: whatever can go wrong, will. I couldn't believe how the game ended, if I were Cain, I would be worried there was a voodoo doll somewhere that's being pricked everytime he starts (Jason Schmidt? :^)

Yeah, can't really blame Brian Wilson.

And Yeah, I like Molina but really, that last at-bat, 2 men on 1st and 2nd, only 1 out, Barry should have been batting there instead.

[September 26, 2007 10:38 AM]  |  link  |  reply
El said

if Bonds didn’t play because Bonds didn’t feel like it.

Oh, cmon.

Barry wouldn't act like a pissy little child and screw the fans who want to see him just cause he was mad at McGowan.

That is so irresponsible. You must hate him. You must have a vendetta against him. You must be part of the media telling me what to think.

[September 26, 2007 11:17 AM]  |  link  |  reply
obsessivegiantscompulsive said

According to the Merc, Bonds left the game in civvies in the 8th, making him unavailable to PH in the 9th; yeah, that's weak, but I can sympathize, he's basically been laid off and you go through a lot of emotions after being in one place for 15 years and then getting dumped, like you were trash. I won't say it was the right thing for him to do, but I can't say that I wouldn't have done the same either.

[September 26, 2007 12:52 PM]  |  link  |  reply
ELM said

I call BS on the Barry hagiography we're soaking in. It's almost as if Giants fans, in order to counteract the Barry hate from the national media, take an extreme defensive posture. Gasp--criticize Bonds? How dare you?

Well, I dare. If he could take BP Monday, he could have pinch-hit Tuesday. Sure, the Giants cut the cord rather unceremoniously, but so what? He's still under contract. He's gotten a world of slack from this team and from these fans.

Again, this is all qualified with IF -- IF he was healthy enough at least to pinch-hit, and IF Bochy was willing to get him in the game -- then his absence is a mark against him. More on this later.