Giants Midnight Replay

Don’t Call Him Garbage

You can say a lot of things about Aaron Rowand, but you can’t say that he has given up. I seriously dislike the Giants association with Rowand, but I can’t fault him as a human. He just grinds……… sometimes he grinds a little too hard on sliders thrown outside and in the dirt. But the bastard just grinds. Here’s to you Rowand, keep grinding. Who knows, maybe we won’t miss Ishikawa so much, maybe Rowand becomes an amazing pinch hitter. 

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The Omar Vizquel Award goes to:

Pat Burrell for closing on a well hit ball in left field and making a nice jumping play….. I know…. you don’t remember that do you, that’s cause the game lasted 9 hours! 

The Velez Award goes to: 

Tejada for two miscues, one is stepping on his glove the other was picking up a grounder that should have been Sanchez’s in the 9th that proved to be an infield hit. 

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The Tina Turner Award (hero) goes to: Rowand for getting two big hits, when no one is really on his side (including myself)

The Ike Turner Award (goat) goes to: Brian Wilson for not throwing strikes. Sorry buddy, you wanna be a bad-ass and close games, you gotta throw strikes and shut the door. Screw the dramatic flare, close that shit down. 

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Some extras. 

Huff Miscue #1

Huff miscue #2


Yeah….. The Cardinals don’t really care about this. They are here to ruin our fun!


Sanchez’s breaking pitch was really working today. 

Affeldt needs to open his eyes when he swings.

Tejada makes good on his first swing at AT&T.

Do we need to do more ground ball practice for pitchers? Seriously guys. 

It’s conclusive evidence folks, Burrell is juicing. JK. But seriously, he is crushing balls! (haha)

Sanchez hits a double…….. that’s big Johnny Sanchez, not F. Sanchez.

This was a key play, unfortunately those bastards who were scoring the game didn’t give torres a hit OR a stolen base……. come on guys, your killing my fantasy team!!!

Sorry Affeldt, but your swing SUCKS!!! hahahaha

This is garbage!!! Lose with some dignity you batty old fart! Don’t pull 5 guys into the infield. uuuugh. I HATE Tony LaRussa! I hate him even more because it totally worked!

This is how long the game went, soo long that the announcers started talking about their meat. 

More Umpire garbage, this same spot was called a ball on Wilson at least 3 times in the 9th. 

Arbitrary Statistics

I have been thinking about statistics again…. It’s really something that I shouldn’t do. I’m not a statistician, I’m not even that good at math. The only A I received in my first two years of college was in Statistics. But that is not saying much.

Although I love what stats do, I cannot pretend to create a statistical category that has any kind of real factual base or value. so I will create a statistical category that mixes stats with what I do best, which is basically to take what I see and say something meaningful to me. 

With all that BS said. I created a category that I call “Win/Loss Assignment”, or “Fault Assignment”. After watching the 2007-2009 seasons I started to think about the games that were lost by mere inches. The games that were lost on an Armando Benitez balk, the games lost on a ground ball bobbled by the great Ivan Ochoa, the games lost because Jose Castillo couldn’t bunt to save his life. I always finished the game thinking, if we lose the division by 1 game I will remember this game. Also I always have hunches as to who is the least valuable player on the team, but I never bothered to tally up who I thought it was. 

So for this exercise in madness I will attempt to:

* Place blame (a point) on one player if we lose a close game (Example: Tejada’s wide throw on the first leg of the double play on opening day).

* Assign a point to a player who obviously wins a close game for us (example: Burrell’s HR off Broxton last year).

* I will stick it to the umpire if it’s his fault (example: last year, vs. Mets, the tag at home that wasn’t).

* If it’s a blowout then I’m just gonna mark it as a blow out. If it’s no ones fault, and it’s just a normal game, then that’s how I’m marking it. 

Without further ado…. here’s what it looks like so far. 

I’ve marked down Tejada for the game 1 loss. I put J. Sanchez down for game 2 for the botched bouncing ball. Game three was a blowout although I would love to give someone credit. But let’s be real, you gotta win the close ones like we did last year. 

If anyone has suggestions on this, let me know.