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May 2008 Archives
05.01.2008
4/30/08: Merry Xmas, Baby, You Sure Do Treat Me Right
05.02.2008
Brian Wilson's Huevos
05.03.2008
Well Played
Last night's game was a bummer, with Brian Wilson giving up the walk-off to Pat Burrell. But it was also one of the best games of the year. The Giants came back strong against a tough team in a hostile...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 12:34PM
05.05.2008
Clank. Doink. Clunk.
The Eugenio Velez Experience rolls on, and it ain’t pretty. His two gaffes yesterday (the first was officially Castillo’s error, on a low throw that Velez should have caught) cost the Giants the game, and his O isn’t making up...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 3:12PM
05.06.2008
Omar is Coming. Everyone Look Busy.
05.07.2008
Barry Zito Back to Work
It turns out Zito didn’t suffer an extended banishment in the bullpen or take a few weeks off to surf. He’s back in the starting rotation tonight. It’s not a reversal, exactly, as the Giants were careful to avoid setting a specific timetable....
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# posted by E.L.M.: 12:06PM
05.07.2008
Hennessey Down
Billy Sadler is up from Fresno to replace Brad Hennessey. As noted on this very blog of record, Hennessey had a minor-league option, and oh boy, did the Giants just use it. Sadler was a teammate of Brian Wilson at...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 6:22PM
05.07.2008
5/7/08: Tease
Pirates 3, Giants 1: Two runs in five innings doesn't a quality start make, but Barry Zito showed a flash -- perhaps a tease -- of promise tonight. What was different? First, Pittsburgh is a good offensive club, and seven...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 11:19PM
05.08.2008
Joltin' Jew Has Left and Gone Away
For those who don’t follow San Francisco politics, Sunset District supervisor Ed Jew had to step down recently amid a world of legal trouble, including accusations of shakedowns, an FBI investigation, and questions whether he was actually an S.F. resident. Read this for the...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 1:13PM
05.08.2008
5/8/08: Jolly Well Rogered
Pirates 5, Giants 4: Our fair team’s dastardly run against the Pirates continues. Matt Cain gave up just enough to lose, with two sequences doing him in. In the third, he walked the pitcher to lead off. Two runs followed....
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# posted by E.L.M.: 6:21PM
05.09.2008
Magowan: Yer Out?
Rumors abound that Peter Magowan wants to wave his frozen peas over the express lane check-out scanner and step down as the Giants president and managing partner. Former Giant beat writer Mark Gonzales, now covering baseball for the Chicago Trib, slipped the...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 12:36PM
05.12.2008
Sweet Holm
Thanks to the continuing exploits of their 28–year-old rookie backup catcher, the Giants take two of three to win the weekend series from the Phillies, leaving Bruce Bochy to grumble again about the blown chance to win the previous weekend’s...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 3:03PM
05.14.2008
5/13/08: Cain
Giants 4, Astros 2: Nice to see Matt Cain go deep and go deep into a game, 114 pitches in eight innings thanks to some early-count swinging by the Astros in the middle innings. Though, dammit, four walks is still...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 11:32AM
05.15.2008
Sabean on the Waterfront
SMALL PRINT UPDATE: Merkin Valdez went on the DL with an elbow strain, and lefty Alex Hinshaw, who’s been closing games with extreme prejudice in Fresno, is now up. In fact, he just made his major league debut after Tyler...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 1:29PM
05.16.2008
5/15/08: Barf
Astros 8, Giants 7: It's not the come-from-ahead loss that bothers me so much; every team suffers a few gut-shots like this over the course of a season. It's the worry that the Tyler Walker honeymoon has ended, the carriage...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 2:17AM
05.16.2008
Don't Neukom Til You've Tried Him
05.18.2008
5/18/08: Bad Patch
White Sox 13, Giants 8: Good pitching, no hitting. Lots of hitting, worse pitching. That's the way it goes these days. Two and eleven in the past two weeks, much of which parallels the downward spiral of the bullpen, though...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 10:42PM
05.19.2008
Reporters' Notebooks
Two interesting tidbits surfaced this weekend from the biggest reporters on the Giants beat, the Chron’s Henry Schulman and the Merc’s Andy Baggarly. Schulman first: remember the story last week in which Brian Sabean said the Giants could compete in...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 12:29PM
05.20.2008
5/19/08: Chulk Make Lefty Angry
05.20.2008
On the Rox, Straight Up
Dan Boniface of the Rockies-themed blog On the Rox asked me some questions about the Giants before the current series. (Our little Q&A is here.) In turn he answered my three burning itching questions about the Mile Highlers, forsooth: How do...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 2:27PM
05.21.2008
5/20/08: Mile High Anxiety
Giants 6, Rockies 5: Call it the Education of Brian Wilson. When you get all geeked up trying to close a game in the ninth, throwing harder harder harder doesn't necessarily work. He nearly blew the save because he overthrew...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 12:06AM
05.21.2008
5/21/08: Holmie Don't Play That, But Then He Does
05.23.2008
Fla by Night
Who are these Marlins, and why do they mock us so? Oh, God, why? They trade two of their biggest stars, they start the year with a payroll lower than a Dunder Mifflin sub-regional office, and they bounce out to...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 12:40AM
05.27.2008
Nearly June
A few days off the grid, and I'm refreshed. It's also my favorite part of the season -- time for wacky desperate personnel decisions. The trade buzz will build over the next two months, but perhaps more exciting for the...
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# posted by E.L.M.: 3:51PM
05.28.2008
Joe Castle Made of Sand?
05.29.2008
Ray Durham's Siren Song
05.30.2008
A Rush and a Push and the Desert is Ours
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