Pathetic execution tonight. Just a fuckin awful effort tonight. Awful awful loss. We had them on the ropes with a chance to win the series and we stepped on our dicks over and over and over again tonight. Fuckin terrible game.
Shit...I’ll be honest. They beat our eyes in Thursday night, we tried to blow it last night, and we got out-classed tonight. Right now, we don’t look like a team that should win the division. They do.
Fuck off. We shit the bed tonight. No other way of spinning it. We threw our best pitcher and lost. Now we have a complete wild card pitching tomorrow. This loss stings bad.
Again I'll throw this stat out. We've scored more than four runs twice (once in extras) since July 4th (12 games).
It's strange because I feel like we've put together some really good ABs early in games to run up pitch counts, but it's not turning into anything most of the time.
Exactly man. We're also scoring like a run early then doing nothing for a large part of the game. It's just frustrating. I don't know what's going on. My stat is random but it's true. Hard to win a lot of games scoring 4 or less.
Just win tomorrow. Get the split and they gain nothing after all of this. It's hard to have perspective when we've played great baseball for close to two months. But if we win tomorrow we will be 6-4 since the break. It would be hard to be upset going 6-4 @SD, @Milw and vs the team with the best record in baseball the last two months. That's a big if but it would be pretty big.
Had a parlay and a string of IF win bets that everything hit but the Braves. Would have paid like 500.
I didn’t get to watch after we went up 1-0, thanks to my expanding social circle, but how in the hell is Minter still on the big league roster? He was trash before he was sent down and has been trash since returning.
He’d been a starter that hadn’t got past Florida and then they put him in the bullpen in Mississippi and he had a really good year this year. He’s only been at Gwinnett like a month now. He’s probably a long relief guy if he ever makes it up.
Some good stuff in this Olney article about the giants situation.. 4. Because of the Dodgers' division dominance, the Giants' only postseason hope is to crawl through a wild card portal and somehow get through October -- which is exactly what they did just five years ago, when Bumgarner carried them to a championship, a memory that is still fresh for Giants players, staff and fans. Zaidi did not live that experience, but he is well aware of its lasting power. 5. Giants manager Bruce Bochy is in his last year of a career that will culminate with him making an induction speech in Cooperstown, and there is building sentiment that everything happening now should be part of a grand encore. 6. Bumgarner is a legacy player, as important to the Giants' franchise history as Mariano Rivera is to the Yankees, as Edgar Martinez is to the Mariners. And he's been pitching much better of late, having seemingly gone through a transformation similar to that of CC Sabathia -- throwing more off-speed pitches, a shift that has improved the effectiveness of his fastball. In Bumgarner's last start against the Mets, 65 percent of his pitches were off-speed, one of the highest ratios of his career, and he allowed one run over nine innings (in a game the Giants eventually won in 16 innings). Over his past five starts, opponents have hit .219 against Bumgarner with a .343 slugging percentage. 7. Some executives believe that by the time we get to the last hours before the trade deadline, there will be a lot of starting pitchers and relievers available, and if that's the case, then it could depress the possible return that the Giants or any other seller would get. It's possible, one evaluator indicated, that if San Francisco decided to unload some relievers, it might get offered Grade C prospects. So it will be left to Zaidi to sort through all of that, to weigh the legacies of Bochy and Bumgarner and the wild-card factors, and to decide whether to buy or sell. As of Saturday evening, sources said, the Giants were intent on riding out the current wave of wins and seeing where it takes them. San Francisco has eight games before the 4 p.m. ET deadline on the last day of July -- today's series finale against the Mets, three home games against the Cubs, three in San Diego next weekend, and then a road game in Philadelphia the night of July 30. If the Giants continue to play well, it's possible they will add before the deadline -- not expensive pieces necessarily, but players like Dickerson, who might represent upgrades. And if the winning stops, San Francisco could become sellers, with Bumgarner standing as the marquee trade chip. If Zaidi does become a seller, he must decide whether any particular offer for Bumgarner is that much better than what the Giants would get if the lefty walked away as a free agent -- a draft pick, assuming that San Francisco would extend a qualifying offer of about $18 million -- to justify the swap of a legacy pitcher. No one yet knows what the Giants will do before July 31. The only sure thing is that their recent stretch of success has created a great set of complications for Zaidi to consider.
Folks, I’ve been slacking lately, but slack no more! Today’s P2C and locks are in: P2C: Fred Locks: Braves -2.5, Fred over 1.5 H -140, Bae O 1.5 H -120, Gausy O 15.5 outs recorded +120. And as always bet confidently as these are backed by the Tobias money back guarantee*
Gausy will have a QS today but when Fred hits four homers today he’s sort of gotta be my P2C. Let’s get this conference win!
Thank you for stepping away from your numerous social circles to give us this. I'm pretty sure we've gone 1-4 without your P2Cs. This skid was your fault, fam. It's science. Please keep your priorities straight going forward.
Was going to make some comment about how shitty our options are with Ender and Riley but then I remembered how amazing chuck and Joyce are.
Or they should have one of Duvall/Demeritte up to give Riley/Markakis regular rest and up any trade value they have.
Rosenthal and DOB reporting Giles is actual our high priority Jays target. Could also lump in Stroman in a deal