. . . for football anyway. Hoping we still try to get O line help, but this team looks to be in better shape than last year given the talent that left the building and the money that went with them. They have shed a lot of contracts desite last year being a rebuild year. Turns out the parity that is so prevalent and the young guys we drafted recently turned out pretty well, and we were amazingly TWO wins from the big prize. And I don’;’t doubt for a second that had we somehow beat Seaettle, NE would have been a walk.
Every year is different, and this year we seem to have done well getting some depth along the D line, linebacker, CB, and WR. But we are still thin at safety, the O line, and just the usual curiosity around the RB position. For some reason, the Mac Jones trade never materialized. My guess is we wanted too much. And why not? No reason to be desperate to get rid of him. You never know if our QB gets hurt again (fixthefuckingolinepleaseforthemillionthgoddamntime), and beyond that, if someother big name goes down (Stafford/Goff) Jones could pop back up for a desperate team.
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Other than that, hmmmmmm. not much in the soccer world, but 4 games in LA vs the Dodgers. They have been on a bit of a slide and we are what we are. Consistently maddeningly inconsistent. We won a series! Against a pretty solid Pirates team! And hey we brought back Mickey D from Sacto. He’s going tonight.
Colby had better improve a shit-ton. I don’t think the starting LG is on the team yet. As is obvious, I’m not very happy with the development of the O line this offseason.
Something else to remember, it’s only May 12.
2019 the Nats were 24-33 at the end of May, 9 games under .500 and about same pct Giants are right now.
They wound up winning 93 games, good for 2nd in AL East then went 12-5 in playoffs and won WS. Little early to be talking about scuttling the ship.
Especially when as Baggs pointed out they are 6-4 vs. SD and LA, top two teams in NL West. Last year record? 7-19.
Guess Baggs didn’t get the memo on how Shitty Houser has been..
Looks like Yamamoto is gonna be tough.
This doesn’t look good
Giants need to hit 2-3 HRs tonight to compete. Likely they aren’t going to run the conga line a lot on Yamamoto…
Well 3 straight full counts to Dogpile hitters and Houser strikes them all out..
Haase?!? Color me surprised. Damn.
WOW!
You don’t need Yamamoto in the stretch if you hit one out! Way to go Hasse! HR ties it up..
Well, that’s one dinger.
Need a couple more…
One thing I do like about Vitello, is that if someone isn’t hitting, they get moved lower in the LU. Vice versa, if they are hitting.
None of this crap like Melvin (or Kapler), whom would put a player in the lead off spot, despite them batting .210 for weeks on end. Or, place them at clean-up, despite not hitting a bomb for weeks on end. Chapman is a good example, where he has been placed lower and lower in the LU as his hitting woes continue. Same for Adames.
Mister Bader!
Boom! Bader is badass!
Haase again!
Cha Ching! There’s your 3 bombs snarkk!
As Kuip just alluded to, the bottom of the order is carrying the team tonight.
Well there’s 3 Dingers now Snarkk and 2 for Mickey Mantle Hasse my lord color me happy..
Man, when I look at Hasse, does anyone else think he looks like Vitello (brothers from a different mother?). Resemblance is uncanny.
Damn! That was smashed by Eldridge.
Yamamoto had nothing tonight. Giants made him look like a mortal.