wait until the Regulars wake up…. they are going to crap on you for another stupid Zito Fanblog… or whatever these things are called. My advice: Don’t take it personally.

I’d hate to be you in the morning…

We’ve seen signs of old school 2002 American League Cy Young award winning Zito

So without reading any more than that, I’m assuming that you’re suggesting we get a time machine and kidnap 2002 Zito to play for us for the next few years, replacing him in his own timeline with an unripe pear, while sending current Zito 17 years into the future so he can bang Suri Cruise guilt free?

This sounds win-win to me. Anybody else on board?

is overkill.

you need to give Zito a bit of a chance. his output was not amazing in this last game but there were definite examples of actual talent. The guy was a first round pick who has pitched in the majors for years. The “pressure isn’t getting him, it’s his mechanics.

Baseball is a precision sport. It requires a body to repeat precisely the same motion 1,000 times in a season for optimal success. If this doesn’t happen, as it hasn’t with Zito, things go wrong. What he needs to do is find his mechanics and replicate that action and he’ll be maybe an alright pitcher again.

Before one makes snap judgements about players in this manner, please try to step back and look at Cause vs. Effect.

Was that a crap on, Inside the Coke Bottle?

I don’t think Zito is going to turn this around in one game. The game he pitched well against was the Indiains which is one of the worst hitting teams in the bigs, so that start should be taken with a grain of salt. One thing I did not notice last night was that he was hitting 88-89mpn pretty consistently which shows me that he might have found his arm slot. Now that he has finally found it, I think it’s gonna take some time for him to get used to throwing that “hard” again and regain any type of control he had. The ump last night did not help at all with that awkward strike zone and the Castillo error was not a positive.

All in all, I think Zito will improve….I would give him 3 more starts till he becomes respectable. In his third start from now which would be….against the Brewers 7/20? I predict 6IP 4H 1ER 2BB 5K and the win. You heard it hear first!

was that by the time Zito left, it turned into a road game.

Zito’s next start is against LA I believe? I’m not advocating getting Dodgers gear….that would make the world implode.

But perhaps the L.A. usual? Arrive late, lots of waves, beach ball action, leave around the 6th or 7th?

The Giants need to string together some hits and produce some offense while he’s up there =X For lincecum and sanchez… they’ve had huge leads before. I don’t know the number, but does anyone know the highest amount of runs scored in a game while Zito’s on the mound (not counting after he leaves the game…)?

::But I guess it doesn’t help when he leaves the game in the 2nd inning, etc etc =(::

Also, the road-only Zito might be a good idea… I’m not saying he’d do any better than he does at home, but being boo’ed at home really sucks. And I’d like the Giants to win some home games dammit! I don’t like the fact that I have to pick and choose to go to games where only certain starting pitchers are pitching! >=(

...Go Cain! (I got your autographed card in a baseball card pack the other day) =)

I listen to this daily radio show from Washington D.C. via podcast and they have inspired me to come up with a solution to this Zito situation of ours.

They do a segment called “River or Life” and during said segment, callers must decide to either “save” the person in question (usually someone with a horrific physical abnormality), or “throw them in a burlap sack and toss them to the briny depths”. Ya, ya, ya…I know it’s not a very PC thing to do and it’s all done in fun, but I’m beginning to think that if we could get Zito folded up into a sack, it’s off to the river (or bay) for our much maligned “ace”.

P.S. If anyone is interested, the show I lifted this from is called the Big O and Dukes show. They’re on 106.7 WJFK in Washington, but their podcasts are available online at either wjfk.com or on iTunes. Typically their topics include pop-culture, video game, comic, MMA, and food/booze news…really cool show, so if you’re interested, give them a listen, will ya.

And if I’m interpreting this post correctly, he’s apparently not doing a Cy Young-type job??? And there are differing opinions on whether and/or how much he can improve???

Wow. I guess I’ve just had my head so focused on this Bush vs. Gore election to even notice stuff that’s happened in the past few days. Insider election tip: keep your eye on Florida’s voting equipment; fingers crossed that it all goes smoothly.

You are all smiles over sniffing the smelly 10 year old scab encrusted band aid Zito’s uses for a Jock but you think Cain needs to show you something? Here is hopeing you don‘t see something to "impress" you for 20 years from either Tim, Matt, or Sanchez.

There has to a block feature some were in the new Mac Chron profile page. And you are just about to motivate me to find it. Congrats.

Lead pipe to the kneecaps.

Booooooo!!!!