Go Giants! Now Sabean go get us another bat or two for the heart of the season and the stretch drive!

Good pitching beats good hitting more times than not. So…never count the Gigantes out.

Beating the odds is what it’s all about in life.

I feel the wild card is for ours to lose.

They’re four games over .500 right now, and unless they add a hitter or two, they will regress as the season goes on.

The Mets, Brewers, Cards, Reds, Cubs, and even the Rockies will put pressure on them, and they have no margin for error.

They are beating long odds every day they don’t fall apart.

As of tonight’s victory over the Diamondbacks the Giants are 31-27 and only a half game behind the Mets for the NL Wildcard (the Mets are 31-26). Pehaps you need to take a second look. Perhaps the Giants can indeed compete for the playoffs without the elite offense you think is required. Perhaps leading the league in run prevention like the Dodgers did in the 60’s and soring just enough can still get the job done.

Totally agree that LA,Philly, Mil are better…maybe NY(when healthy). But STL and the Cubbies are not. I watch them both a couple games a week. STL just got swept by the Rocks at home…and are reeling. The Cubs are so overated and w/o Soriano have as big a power outage as the Gigantes. The league will get smart and start walking Pujols…like they did to Bonds…and that will shut the Cards down. W/O Pujols…the Cards line-up is as bad or worse than the Gigantes.

I watch more MLB than the Gigantes…and there are a lot of teams out there far worse the the Gigantes. Time will tell. The NL Central has parity and teams will knock each other off, while the East has the advantage for the wild card because of18 games against the Nats. They should be 40 out by Sept.

Like I siad earlier…the next couple weeks will determine which direction to take. I would trade Renteria,Howry, and with Rowands recent burst…there might be some interest…But, I doubt any team will pick-up his contract.

Agree with your call on Medders and Miller…they deserve far more credit for the recent success.

I still feel it’s a possiblity…maybe not as long a shot as most think.

Just my opinions…and I could be wrong.

I just don’t see it. Seems that LA, StL, Chi, Mil, NY, & Philly are better teams. The G’s have very few ways to win – basically Shut-Em-Down.

While that’s been a .500 recipe so far, the cascading effect of a starter (rotation’s made em all so far) getting hurt for any time, will put pressure on the pen that’s been their saving grace with Metters and Miller throwing 50 unexpected great innings.

With starters 3-5 being 6 inning guys, gotta wonder if that’s sustainable. The D is improving, but good enough to support a staff that is all the team has going?

All that said, I was discussing the possibility with a G Fan buddy of Houston giving away Tejada (3B!) for pure salary relief, and giving Beane something (Fred and Draft choices + Minor Leaguers not named Baum or Ald) for Holiday (LF!).

Now that would make for an interesting Summer