Maybe it's the Rockies year..............
by Carmelballin on Sep 9, 2009 9:30 PM PDT
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For the longest time, I could not convince myself that the Rockies were actually good. They have a solid pitching staff but definitely not one of the tops in the NL, and a bunch of .220 hitters with a lot of power. To me, that doesn't calculate to a team that is about 18 games over .500. Outside of Helton and Tulowitzki I can't see any real solid hitters in that Rockies lineup. Here's the difference though, the Rockies are a team this year that knows how to win from behind and close games. If you give the Rockies no more than 2 run deficit going into the 8th inning, they are most likely to come back and win that game. They are a great 8th and 9th inning team, just spectacular.
I keep telling myself how lucky they are. Just within the last couple of nights, they came back from losing 4-2 in the 8th and came back to win. Tonight, they were down by 2 with Seth Smith up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, and with 2 strikes and 2 outs, he gets a walk-off two run single. In addition, the hit came off of a play that Brandon Phillips would have normally made. Also, I hate to bring this up but how often are you going to have Ryan Spilborghs hit a walk off grand slam down by 2 in the bottom of the 14th. The Rockies, despite any early (or late) deficit, know how to win games. Whether the Rockies are the luckiest team in the NL or not, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that whatever is happening to them is happening for a reason, and it just indicates that it may be the Rockies season.
In addition, the Giants can't do the little things like bunt guys over. Our fundamentals are atrocious, and despite that we still shouldn't lose a home series against the Padres. Especially in the position that we're in, it is unacceptable. If it isn't already apparent taht the Giants won't make the playoffs, it will be by next Wednesday after the Rockies leave San Francisco.
This may sound pessimistic, but I realize that this is a rebuilding season and we still have a bright future (more so than any other teams in our division). It's just dissapointing because they are so close, but yet so far away. No matter how the Giants end this season, it has been a fun one.
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Great Post
I know it’s tough to write a piece like this but I think you’re right and I found myself thinking the same thing after watching the Rockies win today
by HarbirD on Sep 9, 2009 9:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I dont want to do this anymore
Untill the Gints are tied for a playoff spot again Im not considering us “in it”
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Sep 9, 2009 9:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Seems like it’s been their year every year recently.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
by Skaldheim on Sep 9, 2009 9:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And not the year before.
No , scroll down the the very end of the year.
Yeah , that part. The REALLY IMPORTANT part.
Ya know...ignorance really IS bliss.
Well - I do , anyway.
by victor frankenstein on Sep 10, 2009 1:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great Post
You got guts posting it here, but we shouldnt be blind enough to see that it isn’t the Giant’s year. The Rockies have just unleashed this winning streak and are probably playing their best baseball in a while…..it just makes sense, i agree it was fun for me. I cared this year, instead of caring once every 5 days last year. Hopefully next year we sign a big bat and we become division contenders instead of Wild Card ones
by Fila429 on Sep 9, 2009 9:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The only problem I have with this is that I hate the Rockies’ guts.
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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by Natto on Sep 9, 2009 10:00 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
+1
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by nvsfg on Sep 10, 2009 7:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+9001
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by Yoyo on Sep 10, 2009 8:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+109
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 10, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
x3
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by The Thrill on Sep 10, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
nvsfg is also a computer?
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by The Enchanter on Sep 10, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
nice post.
i’m not a rockie fan, but their gamers produce night in and night out. they play a solid brand of baseball. by the way, they also didn’t bring up fowler and cargo and glue then to the bench.
by giantdonkey on Sep 9, 2009 10:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The only problem I have with this is its blatant falsity
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
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by PaulThomas on Sep 9, 2009 10:09 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I’ve got a pretty sparsely decorated bedroom and I was thinking about building a shrine in attempt to jinx the Rockies.
What should the shrine include?
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Sep 9, 2009 10:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
memories of their 2007 run, tulowitzki
helton, hawpe, jimenez
by sfoakbay on Sep 9, 2009 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Beards. The facial hair.
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by Natto on Sep 9, 2009 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
These cutouts...
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03StfpQeVB9Jv/610×.jpg
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by icantdrive55 on Sep 9, 2009 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by scout6 on Sep 10, 2009 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Definitely an upgrade to pro. necessity in any shrine.
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by beat_la_25 on Sep 10, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah it might be
but hey it ain’t over till its over. I still believe the giants can pull it off, just don’t give up, if the warriors could make it and they were in the similar position, I believe we can. Our pitching is too good and our guys will get up and realize its the time. Remember a loss isn’t always a bad thing. We will come back on friday roaring. But I don’t disagree with you
by Dub4lif3 on Sep 9, 2009 10:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Actually, I’m pretty sure a loss is a bad thing.
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by raisingcain on Sep 9, 2009 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
when you learn something and grow
though the Giants won’t ever learn to bunt
by HarbirD on Sep 9, 2009 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
For the love of God, they don’t need to learn to bunt! (At least, that’s not their biggest problem, or their second biggest…) They need to learn to hit! They have a team OBP of .304! That’s almost impossibly bad. They don’t need to figure out better ways to make outs; they need to figure out how not to make outs in the first place.
by taliesin on Sep 9, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
- .309 — sorry for the typo
Because that’s so much better.
by taliesin on Sep 9, 2009 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
And I can’t believe people are still blaming the team for failure to bunt or to make productive outs or to hit magically with RISP or to steal bases or to pitch to the score or to be true gamer winners or other crap like that. They lose becase they make outs because they suck.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Sep 10, 2009 6:25 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
The most important fundamental is not getting out.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
by oldjacket on Sep 10, 2009 7:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed….however when we already know that the Giants can’t avoid making outs. At least they could try to make something out of those outs. It’s like putting a dress on a pig……..It’s still a pig, but at least it make look a little better.
Why isn't Sabean held accountable for leading the Giants into many years of mediocrity???
by oldrips on Sep 10, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought the whole point of the "dress on a pig" example was that it doesn't make any difference
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
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by PaulThomas on Sep 10, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, that's lipstick
The dress would obviously make a huge difference.
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by groug on Sep 10, 2009 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s a lot like trading for Ryan Garko.
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by EliminateMe on Sep 11, 2009 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When you put money on the other team
because you have little faith in the giants
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by The Thrill on Sep 10, 2009 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I want the Rockies to stop being magic.
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by groug on Sep 9, 2009 10:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
They will. All at once.
And it will either be ugly or beautiful , depending on your perspective.
Ya know...ignorance really IS bliss.
Well - I do , anyway.
by victor frankenstein on Sep 10, 2009 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“Yea, and there will be a magic purple jesus team, with a dinosaur to lead them, and I will bestow upon them the ability to win every game, if only they will frown on swearing in their SB Nation website”
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Sep 10, 2009 6:11 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
It’s not even Rocktober yet. There’s still 3 more weeks of Rocktember. What the hell? Why is this happening? They’re not even that freaking good. They could just as easily be tied with us. This shit isn’t fair why don’t we win flukey games?
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by boonitez on Sep 9, 2009 10:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Hard to come back when you can’t hit.
by taliesin on Sep 9, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Our offense blows.
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by Natto on Sep 9, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
True, they aren’t even that freaking good.
But our offense belongs in the Bryce Harper sweepstakes, not the wildcard race.
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by haverecords on Sep 10, 2009 12:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL
If the Bochy through in the towel with 9 games left, played the Grizzly call-ups every day and the team went 8-1.
Bochy would be finished! Finished, I say! Done for at last!!!
HAHHAAHAHAHAAHAAA!!!!
by hokysmksbw on Sep 10, 2009 1:58 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Oops!
the Bochy through
Blew the joke — the Borker threw
Me sleep now…
by hokysmksbw on Sep 10, 2009 2:04 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
It would be better if I didnt hate the Rockies with the burning fire of 1000 suns
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by CB30 on Sep 10, 2009 6:11 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
So many times rockies come back in last 2 innings at home.
One cannot deny the humidor factor. Not just 220 hitters plus the two hitters mentioned in the post. Seth Smith has been totally clutch. Not only did Phillips, who played great vs the giants, misplay that ball, could have been an error, he falls down, and the second run comes in. Almost looked like someone was taking Pete Rose money on the side. ONLY hope the giants have, is to reel off at least a ten game win streak. Even that may not be enough.
by bradleybear on Sep 10, 2009 8:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
220 hitters with power, better than 260-270 hitters without power.
Teams like the fish with lower averages but more power, ( except for Hanley Ramirez) and the Rockies, score a lot more runs than the giants, with less power. But its not just power, giants, as everyone knows, just do not take the walks. On these other teams, taking a few walks, pitcher comes in a little more and a blast. I continually see giants pitchers approaching 100 pitcher in the 5th and 6th inning, while the opposition pitcher is usually around 60 pitches. I blame more on the hitters, than our pitchers.
by bradleybear on Sep 10, 2009 8:07 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
If you want walks, then be a postman……….at least so sez Shawon.
Why isn't Sabean held accountable for leading the Giants into many years of mediocrity???
by oldrips on Sep 10, 2009 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We may have some of the guns
Next year Bowker has to play whether its in the outfield or at first base. The guy could easity be one of those 25 homer guys, and I expect he will hit a lot higher than 220. He needs to be in the lineup, adjusting to major league pitching.
by bradleybear on Sep 10, 2009 8:12 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
this fanpost is bumming me out.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
by oldjacket on Sep 10, 2009 8:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Bruce Bochy and the Giants offense is bumming me out.
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by WilliamVanLandingham on Sep 10, 2009 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ITS NEVER THE OTHER GUYS' YEAR!
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
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by zenbitz on Sep 10, 2009 10:16 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
End this productive outs bullshit! I am tired of crap. If you need a refresher, please read Grant’s post from 6 days ago:
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/9/4/1015064/whats-wrong-with-the-giants
The Giants offense sucks because they make too many outs and can’t get on base. They hack, hack, hack. End of story. This should be a case study in offensive ineptitude and the strengths of statistical analysis, yet this inability to “play the game right” like the Rockies (really?) keeps coming up. If there is a way the Giants don’t play the game right, it’s that they don’t take pitches.
Also, when you blame one guy for not getting a bunt down in one situation of a game that requires 27 outs, you are neglecting the rest of the team who managed 5 hits and 3 walks from a guy who has a FIP over 6.00.
Also, I just noticed this on the sfgiants page:
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090909&content_id=6875996&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf
Btw, this isn’t directed at the OP, I am just frustrated that people put so much stock into how the Giants play the game instead of realizing that the components just suck really hard.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 10, 2009 10:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
a million times this
i was going to say something just like this, but you did it so well.
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by UnleashTheGore on Sep 10, 2009 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks. I think that I am under the delusion that if we keep saying it enough times people will listen and we soon will get a shiny new GM and manager riding in on a winged unicorn to take the Giants to the promised land. Alas, a winged unicorn sighting is probably more likely than people listening to reason. Gotta fight the good fight though.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 10, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
As long as it’s this one, and not the “my little pony” one.
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by nvsfg on Sep 10, 2009 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's not just that
It’s that the Giants have actually been savagely clutch this season. They turn baserunners into runs at an exceptionally high rate.
Not that I think that’s sustainable, but whether you see it as luck OR “doing the little things,” either way, it’s clearly one of the few offensive skills the Giants are NOT bad at.
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by PaulThomas on Sep 10, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I emailed a link to Grant’s post to Murph & Mac. I should probably email it to Gwen Knapp, who said this:
Of all the encouraging signs from a feel-good Labor Day for the Giants, nothing beat Freddy Sanchez’s sacrifice bunt in the third inning.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/09/08/SP9919JOMR.DTL#ixzz0Qp1Y7OOS
The back to back home runs and Penny’s performance helped, but that bunt was the decisive factor.
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by kdl on Sep 11, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OK, so maybe it’s their year. With them just 2.5 games back of the Dodgers, I’m about ready to root for the Rockies to beat the Dodgers and knock them back to us.
I doubt anyone here would mind if The Rockies and Giants made the palyoffs and left the Dodgers as the odd team out.
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by Goofus on Sep 10, 2009 11:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Depends. If both got eliminated in the 1st round, no big deal, I dont care who as long as the giants make it. If we were to meet a team in NLCS I would wantt to meet the Dodgers, just b/c they seem like a team we can actually beat.
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by say hey nation on Sep 10, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
didnt we just sweep the rockies?
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by The Thrill on Sep 10, 2009 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Edgar Renteria hit a grand slam. I wouldn’t start counting on that.
by quincy0191 on Sep 10, 2009 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Spin this any way you want but the Rockies are first in the NL in runs scored and OPS. Your characterization that “they’re a bunch of .220 hitters with power” is either inaccurate or irrelevant.
Now I just feel dirty.
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by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Sep 10, 2009 11:53 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I hate the Rockies
I’m deeply frustrated that the Giants are not keeping pace with the Rockies. Rockies win 6 in a row (higher than any win streak we have had this year) and we respond by losing 3 of 4, not exactly the response you want from a team trying to find some swagger to get into the postseason.
However, I think the next 2 series can and will answer a lot of questions, and can change the dynamics of the race in the NL West.
Rockies – We have 1 last series with them, at home. Obviously it will be a huge series and we only have those 3 games before we have to rely on the ARZ, SD, STL, MIL LA to do some damage. We gotta win that series at the very least to give us any shot.
Dodgers. We have 2 more series against them and 1 @ home. The last series could become a serious issue if the Rockies continue their streak and the Dodgers continue to show some signs of vulnerability. They play WSH, PIT, and SD before ending in COL. I don’t expect any help whatsoever from their easy schedule, but man would it be hilarious if they went on an epic losing streak against 3 horrible teams? Mmmm Dodger tears are delicious.
I fully expect to go 3-3 or 4-2 in the next 2 series, which will keep us in it but not gain much ground.
COL has a harder schedule but is playing with gusto, and LA has an easy scedule but doesn’t have the momentum COL has. I’d say that puts them almost dead even.
In conclusion we’re definitely down but not out, and streaks like the Rockies have can go away very fast… especially against STL and MIL and ending in LA. LA will just keep chugging along but its not improbable for them to suddenly drop the ball and let COL take the lead, and then we creep in above LA.
If were out I fully expect to see Posey, Frandsen, and Lewis playing.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 10, 2009 11:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Since you brought up our lack of a big winning streak this year...
Winning streaks of more than five games are a result of timely hitting and great pitching. You need solid performances from your starters, since at least once during a week’s worth of games your offense will run into a team’s #1 starter and have trouble manufacturing runs. You also need to be able to manufacture runs, since at least once during a week’s worth of games your starting pitcher might not have his best stuff, or your bullpen gets torched. In other words, in any big winning streak there are probably some 10-8 and 2-1 games that you normally don’t win but do this time—sure, there’s luck involved (see: Brandon Phillips missing that ball last night) but more so because your hitters get hot, and they have smart at-bats, make the starter throw a lot of pitches, take walks, steal bases, etc.
It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg argument, but the fact that the Giants haven’t won more than 5 games in a row this season is because their plate approach has been so poor, and because their plate approach has been so poor they haven’t won more than 5 games in a row. (This is to say nothing of Bruce Bochy’s managing). So to think they have a chance to catch either the Dodgers or Rockies for a playoff spot assumes that they’ll have to go on a pretty big winning streak, which supposes that they’ll have to exponentially improve their at-bats in the next three weeks.
Asking a team to do something well for three weeks that they’ve done poorly for the past five and a half months is the ultimate longshot bet. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s extremely unlikely.
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by Kitspool on Sep 10, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t know, seems like just luck to me.
by Evan on Sep 10, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m calling the Rockies’ peak. They play .500 ball from here on out.
by Evan on Sep 10, 2009 12:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
This will be a disaster
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by CB30 on Sep 10, 2009 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, for every .500 first pitches that get thrown out, they’ll win .500 games.
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by groug on Sep 10, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Even if that were true
The Giants would have to go 15-7 to catch them. Sure, the Giants could play .682 ball the rest of the season, but that isn’t the way to bet.
by taliesin on Sep 10, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Humidifier
Seriously, all these comeback wins the Rockies are pulling off really makes me wonder who is in charge of the humidifier and how it is regulated. I know Flemming has wondered aloud how something like this can be totally unregulated. I’ve heard they sometimes use it, sometimes don’t. Pretty easy to get an unfair advantage if you ask me.
by ob_surfer on Sep 10, 2009 12:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, it blows my mind that there’s not an umpire or some other MLB official who is in charge of that thing. The potential for abuse is pretty apparent. Even if they’re not bringing out non-humidified balls for their opponents to throw them in the bottom of the 9th when they’re behind, how could you blame people for suspecting it, when there’s (apparently) nothing stopping them from doing so.
by taliesin on Sep 10, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
posts like this lead me to believe
the Giants are NOT in it.
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by The Thrill on Sep 10, 2009 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The thing is, though...
…that the Rockies’ home record is no better – in fact slightly worse – than the Giants’. The difference is that they’re 36-33 on the road while the Giants are 31-41.
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by EliminateMe on Sep 11, 2009 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is because the Giants do not know how to win yet. In Baseball, it is better to be a dullard than a smarty-pants, so not knowing something is perfectly acceptable. Therefore, complaining about the Giants’ record, or performance in any one area, of any particular player or group of players, managerial decisions, executive management philosophies and in-game strategies is a waste of time and speaks more about us than it does about the team.
by Every6thDay on Sep 11, 2009 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is because the Giants do not know how to win yet.
Well, then someone should tell them to score more runs than the other team.
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by groug on Sep 11, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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