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99 Losses or Bust

We seem to be in the holding pattern of 1 win, 2 losses as this bland flavorless season continues it’s slow march to oblivion.

Looks like the 1985 team of Jimmy Davenport is safe in the knowledge that they will continue to be the one and only 100 loss team in the 144 year history of the NY/SF Gothams/Giants.

I mean, 5 more wins out of 21 games shouldn’t be that hard. Right?

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  1. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    WINNER WINNER!

  2. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    Hell yes How about the job by new closer Dylan Smith!! Take the series will make the trip home much better!!

  3. willedav's avatar willedav says:

    Dylan Smith is my hero. Chapman too hitting ball into wide open space btw 2b and 1b. what a satisfying W!

      • willedav's avatar willedav says:

        I say this all the time but the way RHs get played nowadays the 2b is couple steps away from the bag taking away middle, and 1b is off the bag.

        so whinell would your pitcher throw a pitch completely opposite of where his D is?

  4. willedav's avatar willedav says:

    Loo, Willie McGee. didn’t he win NL batting title as a Giant?

    • willedav's avatar willedav says:

      Nah it was 1990 for St.L, year before he came to Giants as FA after Cards traded him to A’s.

      • Paul Sorensen's avatar Paul Sorensen says:

        Must have been around that time, Boston needed to revamp its outfield and Willie McGee was a free agent, and Boston’s version of the lunatic fringe was calling for the FO to sign him, for krissakes, he was better than anything they had. GM Lou Gorman was quoted as saying, “Willie McGee? What would we do with Willie McGee?” That was one of Gorman’s last statements as GM…..

    • alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

      I looked up McGee’s best season with Giants and in 1991 he hit .312 losing batting title to Terry Pendleton (Braves who hit .319..

  5. willedav's avatar willedav says:

    Brutal scheduling. Cubs are off today before road game at Coors Tuesday. Giants game started 530 here, went on for 3 hours and they have to fly back and play at home tonight. The Nats were in AZ for afternoon game and probably got to SF before Giants did.

    That was their 3rd and last 3 city road trip of season so far. Cubs have had exactly zero of them per Slush.

  6. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Hey, the 49ers have it much worse. They fly something like 40,000 miles this season. Australia AND Mexico City games.

    Almost as bad as when the Saints and Falcons were in the NFC West.

    • willedav's avatar willedav says:

      yeah that’s really insane. Hope the players fight back against extra game in season Commish seems to want to add to schedule.

  7. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    So the Nationals are starting a left handed pitcher giving me some Lovin Lovelady and the brilliance of Vitello is starting 0-22 Gilbert against lefties when you have a red hot Jonah Cox hitting.444 who can easily out play and faster then Gilbert oh and he bats RH? This is the kind of crap that makes no sense along with Adames batting 4th still..

    • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

      Agree AK . . . No sense.

      https://www.mlb.com/giants/roster/starting-lineups

      Lifetime, Adames has faced Lovelady for 4 plate appearances, recording 3 official at-bats. He has drawn 1 walk and has yet to record a hit or a strikeout against the left-hander, leaving him with a career .000 batting average and a .250 on-base percentage in their head-to-head encounters.

      Not much to go on, except, wtf is Lee batting 5th and Eldridge 6th? Only Vitello knows . . . Me. Lee should switch with Devers. Likewise, Eldridge should supplant Adames from 4th to the back of the line in 6th. Also, I get the “lefty righty” BS too, but with Adames? He could give a flying fuck as he strikes out on whomever is out there usually.

  8. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    Despite V’s weird LU, I am looking for the Giants to make major strides on this homestand. We’ve won 4 of the last 5 games and it’s our time to go into overdrive and kick some Washington ass. Overall, the Giants’ offense has been solid, ranking 11th in OPS behind the exploits of free agency signing Arraez and our breakout star Schmitt, along with Lee.

    Pitching is the question mark. Unbelievable as that may seem. Regardless, we are playing at our ballpark – a big, big advantage. After finishing 17th in rotation ERA and fourth in bullpen ERA last season, the Gmen have dropped to 24th and 18th, respectively, so far this season. None of our freaking starters has a sub-4 ERA and only one of our healthy regular relievers a sub-2.5 mark. In a word, our pitching “SUCKS!”

    We need a bounce back and this homestand is an opportunity to make some hay, insofar as getting back to .500 again.  

  9. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    Sit your blind ass down Adumbass.

  10. xoot's avatar xoot says:

    fucking Adames. The team should dump a barrel of gatorade on his head every time he blows a challenge. The manager should bat him lower in the lineup, too.

    • willedav's avatar willedav says:

      No concept of K zone and wastes a challenge.

      great shot of women with blankets out.

      summer in SF lol.

      • xoot's avatar xoot says:

        those three bundled up women looked like Russians shivering in a Siberian winter wind.

  11. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    Damn. Thought that Eldridge blast was gone.

  12. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    Again, I hate Vitello’s LUs. If he had Lee batting somewhere in the top 3 spots, we would likely have a run already (e.g., 2 singles by Arraez and Schmitt). Minimally, those guys would hit the freaking balls versus the black hole of Adames.

  13. willedav's avatar willedav says:

    Watched some of Yanks-Guards. Yanks start Ryan McMahon at 3b, who did hit HR #7 tonight. BA .211 OPS .632.

    Chapman with another hit has OPS up to almost .700. which is also higher than Alex Bregman .669

  14. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    Thank you Kruk . . . i.e., he just said, “0 for 6 with RISP.”

    ‘Nuff said.

  15. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    And thanks to Adumass earlier stupid challenge,Giants were reluctant to challenge a strike 3 call and the Nats get a run out of it! Ive said this before but the homeplate umpire should pour a bucket of Gatorade over his head for just being an idiot..

  16. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    Oh gee a 3 pitch strikeout what a supri

  17. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    YES! Finally, a run! Nice hit by Chappie!

  18. willedav's avatar willedav says:

    Chapman again. Once they got Cy Mikolas out of there Giants bats woke up.

  19. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    I like the Eldridge/Chapman connection lately in the order their producing now if Vitello will just get over Adames compromising animal photos on him and move him down to 7-8 the Lu would certainly be better..

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