! ! ! ! Can’t get any lower. Still I feel I’m sinking ! ! ! !
Outshined by Chris Cornell and Soundgarden. The theme song for your SF Giants 2026 team.
In a season full of pitching debacles and crushing losses, they managed to pull one out for the ages.
Yes, the biggest blown 9th inning league in the 125 year history of the team. They were 2,208-0 when leading by 6 or more in the 9th. Til today.
Up 9-3 in the top of the 9th, the team could not even get an out before Cincy tied it. Bivans came in and really had no clue. Not sure why whoever the interim manager even was didn’t pull him a little faster, but I think it was pretty obvious Bivens didn’t have it. He gave up the longest home run into the cove that I’ve ever seen. Then again, Smith came in and nuked the joint. And the rest was errors, walks and general rookie ball crap.
I guess the lockout is a blessing.
For Dolly . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
Blind, Bonehead Adumbass loses another challenge. Grab some pine meat.
Eldridge’s patience is great, but every once in a while it wouldn’t hurt to take a guess and hack at the first pitch. Gordon threw a slider down the middle in the first AB for strike 1 and then Eldridge watched the same pitch, albeit up a little more, the second time. He shoulda crushed it.
Gilbert did this last year–in September series he had 4 hit game with bomb and then homered again 2 days later. He hit 3 all year in 100 ABs, 2 of them at Coors.
keep him at Sac until it’s time to play coors?
perfect strategy!
Bonds like from Rafi!
Not certain, but that’s top 5 I have ever seen at Coors. Big bomb by Devers 🙂
Stanton 504′ blast (but right center) . . . https://www.mlb.com/video/must-c-stanton-s-mammoth-homer-c1021276183
Ironically, Cron did the same distance, but in left . . . Hard to get perspective on Dever’s right field blast, as that 3rd deck makes it look longer. Jesus Sanchez hit one in right that went almost 500 feet.
bonds hit one 492
I’m totally down with Unca’s new lede.
Get radical change going for this roster. Giants are on the short list for the worst team in baseball; now is not the time for just changing the deck chairs…
I have read numerous columns saying that Buster is saying no to Webb trade, but that’s for “public consumption.” Frankly, he will listen to everybody. Yeah, Unca is spot on, mostly because we have a “new and improved” Chappie in Schmitt. It would be stupid to put the “old model” out there, with Schmitt available. You still have to pay Chapman, whether you play him or trade him or cut his ass.
I think Devers does not like Oracle and the cold weather. He’s heating up…
Willy sees those sliders the way the coyote sees the roadrunner.
huh I love you guys but these trade/cut DFA Fire Someone! posts sound like something written by Herve Villechaize from Fantasy Island. In other words, not happening.
If ownership is unwilling to pay premier SP like Robert Suarez $45 million/3 years to actually play for them, they are NOT cutting any of the Big 3 and paying them to not play. Until at least 2 of them start to hit better likelyhood of them going anywhere is slim and none. Case closed.
ray and Arraez have value and even Posey is smart enough to know he cannot further decimate rotation by trading Webb who he controls for 2 more years. I doubt Posey or Vitello are going anywhere for at least another year.
so as stephen stills wrote, might as well Love the One you’re with. Or not.
Coors and the Giants Pen strike again…
A toxic combination.
lol . . . Willie, ONLY IN YOUR FANTASIES . . . MLB teams frequently trade or release players with long-term guaranteed contracts who are underperforming, though they remain responsible for paying the full salary. Prominent examples include the Yankees releasing Jacoby Ellsbury and Aaron Hicks, the Orioles releasing Chris Davis, and the Red Sox trading David Price and paying portions of his salary.
Because MLB contracts are overwhelmingly guaranteed, teams must still pay the player’s remaining salary even after cutting them, eating the “dead money” against their payroll and luxury tax. Examples of teams making these drastic moves include:
Sure and I’m not saying total rebuild is right or wrong. but that has zero to do with convincing Larry Baer and Greg J/rest of the Board to do it right now. Feel free to give them your best spiel.
Bottom line if either Chapman or Adames were putting up numbers like Devers there might be chance to move them. But they aren’t and I seriously doubt any team in baseball is willing to take on 4-5 years (or even 2-3 if Giants were to actually fork out salary relief) of that kind of salary obligation going forward.
Hanging on to these guys isn’t my fantasy, it’s the reality that Giants are stuck with them until they play better and become more attractive in trade.
the ferocious battle for last place in the NL west takes a dramatic turn
Here is a quick search regarding a rookie or minimum wage player (e.g., Schmitt replacing Chappie, A SO CALLED SUPERSTAR . . . HAHAHAHA!):
MLB teams strictly prioritize winning over a player’s contract size when a league-minimum standout outclasses an expensive veteran. In these scenarios, front offices either Designate for Assignment (DFA) the veteran—eating millions in “dead money”—or relegate them to the bench to let the cheaper, superior option play everyday.
Because pre-arbitration rookies make the MLB minimum salary of $780,000, the financial contrast creates immense surplus value for the team. Notable recent examples of teams cutting or sitting massive contracts for minimum-wage players include: [1]
1. New York Mets: Cutting Robinson Canó for Pre-Arb Infielders
2. San Diego Padres: Benching / DFA’ing Eric Hosmer for Jake Cronenworth
3. Arizona Diamondbacks: Cutting Madison Bumgarner for Rookie Starters
4. Los Angeles Angels: Benching and Cutting Albert Pujols for Jared Walsh
5. New York Yankees: Benching Aaron Hicks for Minimum-Wage Outfielders
Start of play today Chapman led Giants position players in war. Obviously not dispositive. But he’s nothing like a bust.
Adumbass K’s . . . Bench his ass too.
Willy expected a slider to whiff on and a fastball fooled him.
And as usual for the BP another blown outing as they couldn’t get to Killian for the 9th..7-6 loss on Freaking Eric Karros kid with the GW 3Run Bomb off of Smith!!
Once they trade Ray for starters I’m bringing up the 3 lefties Whiz,Whitman,Wilkerson as starters/Relievers instantly dumping Gage,Smith both washed up..
Hey I’m ok with 4W’s starting..Webb,Whiz,Whitman,Wilkerson ( tugboat) and pick your scraps between McDonald &Roupp for the 5th spot..
These World Cup knockout games are so much better than suffering with the Gigantes through the incessant Pen nonsense. It’s beyond bad when you bring in Bivens to be the latest savior…
Bring in meaning onto the roster…
looks like Trump pressured fifa into suspending bolugon’s suspension. Ruins that game.
I would have said He probably threatened to attend the final match if they didn’t overturn the red card, but he’s apparently already said he will attend the final and present the World Cup, so that match will be ruined whoever is in it. I’m sure there was a threat of some kind, probably in exchange for lifting the red card and some kind of major grift we won’t know about…
well the guy’s tainted the game with his own corruption. I thought the red card was wrong; but I’m not even a soccer fan. Tell me, though, why did we need to know that Trump interceded?
He ruins everything. The nazi golden eagle he installed on the White House includes an arc of eleven stars. Not 13–the usual number of stars on a USA emblem–but 11, coincidentally the number of states. And don’t get me started on his turning the reflecting pool into the Strait of Warm Ooze. 🤣🤣🤣
11–coincidentally the number of confederate states.
By no means am I a soccer follower, but I did think that red card on Bolugon was a joke. I saw no intent, looked to me he was after the ball, it was in the middle of the field, basically. I’ve seen lots of tackles in this WC worse than that one being uncalled or just given the yellow.
Yesterday, the Paraguayans basically mugged the French the entire game with pushes in the back to the ground, trips, elbow jabs to the head, and very rough tackles, and did not get even a single yellow card, not one. Lots of malicious intent, but Pfffft. Crazy. The French kept their cool and did what it took to win. I think the French are the best overall team I’ve seen, and have a really good shot at the Cup. Would love a final of Argentina v France, the Messi v Mbappe showdown. The brackets end in that final if they both win out from now on. I think it will be Spain v France and Argentina v Norway in the semifinals…
Willie, regarding your 4:42pm, where you said, “Sure and I’m not saying total rebuild is right or wrong. but that has zero to do with convincing Larry Baer and Greg J/rest of the Board to do it right now. Feel free to give them your best spiel.”
I don’t have to convince Baer, Greggie, or Board as they are convinced . . . To wit, Baer went on KNBR’s “Executive Show” recently and explicitly confirmed that the ownership group has “1,000% support” for Buster Posey’s leadership. When pressed on the team’s rough season and whether the front office would accept a total, “down-to-the-studs” rebuild, Baer made it clear that ownership is entirely willing to follow Posey’s lead – wherever that takes them.
Baer basically signaled that if Posey decides a full teardown is what’s necessary to fix the roster, he has the green light from the top to do it. With the trade deadline looming and everything reportedly “on the table,” it gives Posey absolute authority to make major moves, whether that means trading away big pieces or reshaping the roster through aggressive signings.
This is NOT me, but Baer saying this.
Baer’s not reliable. He’s a sleazy PR shill willing to lie (or, more recently during rainbowgate, to hide) as it suits him.
So, I guess it follows that Buster is a “sleazy PR shill” too, whom would go along, to get a long and just maintain the status quo?
Maybe just me, but I doubt that. Sure, he might provide “shade” for assholes like Baer and/or Greg, i.e., not say outright that Baer and Greggie are lying SOBs. However, I bet he would resign his position without comment, if ownership did not allow him to right the ship as he sees fit.
Anyway, the fact remains that Chapman and Adames are near useless. Lastly, Chapman does NOT lead in WAR per your earlier post . . . Read: https://www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/logan-webb-luis-arraez-all-star-game/1947708/
“Arraez was an easy selection and likely would have made it even if the Giants got just one choice because of their poor record. He leads the team’s position players in WAR at 3.4, well ahead of Casey Schmitt (1.4) and Jung Hoo Lee (1.4), both of whom had cases to be on the National League bench.”
Buster’s entirely different.
and I was using bWAR. This morning, bbref had Chapman ahead at 2.8
just checked. Bbref hasn’t updated. They still have Chapman at 2.8 and Arraez at 2.7.
and Chapman is far from a bust, even if fan graphs rates Arraez ahead of him right now.
my preference for bWAR is simply convenience, btw. WAR is always a blurry stat.
just checked fangraphs. Wow. 1.3 WAR for Chapman due to a -3.1 for offense. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a spread between bWAR and fWAR.
Jesus, all these soccer players do is flop and cry…
beats the hell out of commercials.
Yeah that’s the difference between rub rugby players and Soccer players!Bunch of pussies flopping&whiners in soccer and rugby players are just bad asses that never bitch, just play for blood..