Giants Midnight Replay

Terribler Than Terrible

“These aren’t your father’s Nationals” That’s what Krukow said on the pregame show. I am assuming he was speaking about the endless futility of the Expos. At the same time Kruk might have a point. The Nationals are not terrible, but to say that the they are not terrible would be a lie. They ARE terrible, but the Giants are terribler. The Giants are the 111 loss 2004 Diamondbacks right now. The Giants are the fucking 43 win 2003 Detroit Tigers right now. The Giants are the fucking 1994-2010 Pittsburg Pirates right now.  The Giants’ bats are limper than a senior citizen’s wrist. Ok let’s leave it at that. So let’s all just do some jumping jacks, loosen up and settle in for a LONG road trip. Let’s enjoy this round of terrible baseball while it lasts. Let’s hope it doesn’t last long. 

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The Omar Award goes to: 

Aubrey Huff for the excellent play down the first base line early in the game. 

The Velez Award goes to:

Aaron Rowand and Cody Ross. I think everyone knows what I am talking about…… Just look at the picture.

“let’s share this ball and be happy” says those dorks.

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The Dorus Rijkers Award (Hero) goes to: 

Tim Lincecum who found his good pitches a couple of innings too late. Poor bastard, if you don’t throw a shutout then you pretty much have no shot at winning with this lineup. 

I forgot to snap a pic of Tim tonight so I stole this pic from here..

The Sea Award (Goat) goes to:

Jason Marquis who is a mutha fucking Giant KILLER. It’s unbelievable how much the Giants suck right now, and Marquis is just the wrong type of pitcher for us to face right now. I would rather face Halliday, Sabathia, Josh Johnson or pretty much any number of aces. A ground ball pitcher is the last thing I want to see on an upcoming schedule. 

Here he is hitting an RBI hit and run on an impossible pitch to hit. 

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Bonus Crap:

This bunt that worked (but ultimately didn’t work) doesn’t bother me. We are up against a ground ball double play pitcher, and we have a guy on base. Solid option. 

This bunt does bother me, Miguel Tejada, former MVP, former slugger is bunting with no one on base and 36 year old legs. Now Tejada made it to first, I know, fair enough. But it just proves that Tejada knows that he sucks, and in my opinion should not be playing. 

Right after Rowand and Cody decided that they wanted to share a fly ball Nix blasts a 2 run HR. Perfect timing. Can things go worse for the Giants?…….

Yes… Cody (why am I still in the lineup) Ross hits a single and gets throw out by 8-12 feet at 2nd base. 

Buster (Don’t vote for me for the All-Star game ) Posey along with the rest of the Giants hitters swing about 20+ times at this pitch. 

Posey throws his second runner out except he is called safe (make-up-call). This guy went on to score on that impossible hit and run Marquis hit. 

Bring in the scrubs!!!!

To Err is Human… To Not Check the Runners…..

Lincecum loses to the Nationals 3 to 7

Screenshot of the game.

LOOK BEHIND YOU TIMMY!!!!!!! PLEASE!

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2 out of 5 Neukoms

- When Lincecum doesn’t check runners………… they run. They have stolen 16 out of the last 16 bases against him…… 

- Rowand, Bowker and Schierholtz  fail to get Bengie home with 0 outs in the 5th inning. 

- Lincecum can’t catch a throw back from Aubrey Huff after a pickoff attempt. 

- Rather lazy baseball and a Lincecum that has become something that I don’t look forward to.

- I understand that Tim Lincecum has a blister on his middle finger, broken fingernail or gangreen or whatever…. but that does not prevent him from turning his head to check the runner once in a while. 

- Pablo fails to turn even 1 after looking at 2nd base too long in the 5th inning.

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The Babyface Award (Hero) goes to Jazz Hands, as his monster blasts have become one of the only things that I really look forward to.

The Heel Award (villain) goes to Lincecum who got booed when he failed to control the running game, and got a sarcastic cheer when he finally looked back at 2nd base for the first time. 

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Extra photos, this time with more religious ferver.

Praise the Lawd! Jazz Hands doing what he does best. 

Praise Jeeezuz!

All’s Well (-emeyer) That End’s Well

Giants put the fans out of their misery by winning the Nationals 4 to 2

Screenshot of the game. 

We haven’t seen this in a while.

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4 out of 5 Neukoms

- only 2 walks

- but 3 for 11 with RISP

- We chased one of the better ERAs in the Majors in the 5th

- All 4 of our RBI came with 2 outs

- 3 clean innings by our bullpen

- great pickoff by Bengie 

- Wellsy doing what a good fifth starter does……. giving us a chance to win %50 percent of the time. 

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Speaking of Wellsy…… cut the guy some slack. 

- In the 9 times he has taken the hill he has held the opposition to 4 runs or less 7 times.  

- He gives us a decent chance to win half the time that he takes the hill. 

- He is not lincecum/cain/sanchez or even zito…. he is about as good as other 5th starters are. 

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The Sirius Black Award (hero) goes to Todd Wellemeyer….. ya ya ya, I thought I would never say it either….. But he came through with the “clutch” bloop hit to start the 2 out rally off of one of the better pitchers in the N.L. and He also kept us in the game until the 7th. Cheers Wellsy
The Dementors Award (villain) goes to Adam Dunn…… for no particular reason other than he is a big dumb looking lunk. haha.

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extras
- don’t mess with Todd Wellemeyer…. he will take your knees out.

- I haven’t decided yet if Huff just get A LOT of questionable called strikes, or he is kinda a baby.

- Uribe missed two close plays, here’s one

- Here’s the other