Another loss at home, but who cares we have the best garlic fries and announcers in baseball. GREAT!!
from Giants Extra:
POSTGAME NOTES: The Giants raved about Andrew Susac on Tuesday, because the rest of the night was hard to talk about - Giants Extra:
— Why are we talking Susac and only Susac? Well, did you see that game? Right. Game story is here for the masochists. The theme is a simple one: You can complain about Gregor Blanco hitting second or Dan Uggla being in the lineup at all, but the Giants are slumping because their key guys aren’t on the same page. Some nights it’s Hunter Pence and Pablo Sandoval hitting, some nights it’s Posey and Michael Morse. They’re never stringing it together though, and that’s how you end up scoring six runs in six games.'via Blog this'
The positives:
- Belt may be coming back soon. He may be rusty, and yet he may still be better than 7 of the 8 hitters currently trolling the Giants lineup right now. Hell, he might be better than all eight if he wraps his knuckles and hits cross-handed.
The negatives:
- Cain gets a second opinion from the Dr. Kervorkian of surgeons Dr. James Andrews
- Angel Pagan is still sipping margaritas somewhere, no ETA on his return from his balky back injury
This team is now steam rolling towards .500 or worse and we approach the trade deadline leaving GM Brain Sabean in the position of having to decide seriously whether to abruptly down-shift from buyer to seller. Is this team worth mortgaging a(nother) piece(s) of its future to try to stop the bleeding that is this teams record.
Would Giants fans even care or notice? Probably not. I was watching Bloomberg this AM and the talking head expert on Silicon Valley and all things social media was asked to opine on the Giants fortunes by the moderator and he tilted his head like a dog trying to understand his masters commands and said "Well, the Giants have the second best record in baseball...er, the NL. Right?" WRONG GENIUS!!!
As of today, the Giants record is .533 at 57-50 -- SIXTH in the NL behind the Cardinals -- who are elevating through .533 not ripping through it from above like a falling knife.
LA Dodgers .563
Nationals .548
Brewers .546
Braves .542
Cardinals .533 (56-49)
Giants .533 (57-50)
Sabean and management may decide their time is better spent primping the composition of the 2015-2016 roster than trying to salvage the playoff prospects of this 2014 roster.
It would not surprise me at all if Sergio Romo follows the Matt Cain injury, story line / paper trail. There is a reason why the once un-hittable slider has all of a sudden lost it's swerve and ended up as a souvenir with increasing frequency -- much like Cain's. Romo isn't going to take himself out of the lineup or go into the trainer's room for an X-ray on his own, but all you have to do is watch the action of the ball and the reaction of hitters when they hit it. Romo will either go down with a bad elbow or whiplash from watching all those hangers getting banged into the seats. So mark down a closer for the trade-deadline shopping list.
It wouldn't surprise me if Morse's production isn't linked to a back injury considering the violence he puts into his swing and the way he's been bounced around from LF to 1B due to Belt's injury. His swing has lost some of that juice he had earlier in the season and the fence-scraper he hit last night does little or nothing to change my opinion on that. Mark down a decision on LF for next year, unless you haven't seen enough out of Morse/Blanco/ Perez/Colvin.
How about CF? As much as I like Pagan when healthy, how much of the Giants eggs of fortune are you willing to toss into the basket of Pagans's balky back? How many years do we march down this trail of tears?
The once vaunted pitching staff appears to be crumbling under the weight of the offense's lack of productivity. By a show of hands, how many Giants fans thought the game was effectively over when the Giants went down 3-0 in the 2nd inning last night? Not very many.
The ship be sinking. How low can it go? Sky's the limit.
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