Sideline reporting is an annoying time-filler. It gives the viewers constantly in motion eyeballs a chance to rest without having to leave the action of the game.

Watch a game. You will hardly see a single camera angle held for more than a few seconds…except when they’re doing talking heads.

Its all a plot I say!!!!

I will take Amy G any day of the week. She is always respectful of the players “space” and is doing a really good job of building some trust there which means more insight for fans. Unlike Kruk and Kuip who had built in credibility when they joined MSM, she has had to work her way up from the bottom of the ladder and imho I think she is doing a nice job and gets better as the seasons roll along. She is real as opposed to polyester.

And if anybody remembers Cammy Blackstone doing her overly self-aware in the stands interviews, puff pieces, and lamer monologues, Amy G is 180 degrees from that.

Having said that, I can do without all the talking heads. Most games I don’t even have the sound on, unless its Kuiper doing the play by play. The score, count and situation is across the top of the screen. Frankly this compulsive demand to not allow a single solitary second to pass without some dimwitted repetitive observation, story, opinion, product plug, or some such distraction contributes greatly to my annoyance when things turn to shit on the field of play.

At least if you don’t care for Amy G and her puff pieces, unlike Mike Krukow or Dave Flemming, or Mychael Urban, or Bip Roberts or FP Santangelo or JT Snow, you won’t have to listen to her blatantly lie about the bonehead decisions of Bochy, the shortcomings of Rich Aurillia, and the false promises of a rejuventated Barry Zito.

Amy G…now there’s a quality baseball person. I’m hanging on every word she says.

Took almost a week off MLB and the Gigantes. Amazing what you can accomplish and do w/o the vices of baseball.

Did watch for as long as I could stand on Friday. Why Aurilia gets any ab’s is beyond me. Continuing to bat Molina is the 4th slot is insane….Rowand, Winn, Renteria(our version of the Pac Bell Bombers)..and the beat goes on. Pathetic. Worst line-up you could put out there. No need to throw Uribe under the bus as he is the only one besides Sandoval hitting the ball hard.

Agree to some point about favoring Zito. His bruised ego needed the Bucs and the organization caved. Why he still is in the rotation is the real question. Why Sanchez is not pitching today is criminal.

Youth movement my ass.

When you positively, absolutely, need a loss…bring in Howry. He has no value on this team if he cannot pitch in late inning pressure…and he continues to prove that….Jones bomb still hasn’t landed.

If Zito gets pounded tonight…and isn’t pulled from the rotation…then you can tell it good-bye.

I have better things to do than watch Zito.

Players who signed multiyear contracts before Oct. 2006 can demand a trade if they are traded in the middle of their deals. If the club does not comply with the trade demand, the player can then opt to become an unrestricted free agent on March 15.

Halladay signed a three-year, $40 million contract extension with the Blue Jays in March 2006.

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“If you saw Bengie Molina’s moving interview with Comcast’s Amy Gutierrez, you got inside a man with immense pride, a strong sense of family and an enormous heart – a man who should remain a Giant. It won’t be easy convincing Molina, a potential free agent, to play here just one more year, but that would be an ideal setup. They can’t afford to lose his bat.”

Which is scarier: That Bruce Jenkins thinks we can’t afford to lose Benjie Molina and his .267 On-Base Percentage, or that he is praising an interview by Amy G?

And if you don’t think playing favorites and bullshit play a part in lineup construction and that Sabean and Bochy aren’t full of shit when they tell you they like the chemistry that the young guys are bringing, look at the starting lineup tonight. A starting line-up that would go on to score exactly one fucking run in 14 innings off of burger flipper Paul Maholm of the 4.36 era and 1.41 ERA and a cast of anonymous AAAA pen doods, with turds like Randy Winn, Rich Aurillia, Andres Torres, Juan Uribe, Edgar Renteria and Bengie Molina. The only fucking guys in the lineup under 30 were Lincecum and Sandoval for krissakes!

So much for the “youth” movement that Orville Redenbacher was mealy-mouthing about on the radio yesterday.

The thing is this: You should expect management and ownership to bullshit and lie and equivocate and tell all kinds of fairy fucking tales. That’s the capitalist free-market system of which San Francisco Baseball Associates, LLP is a charter member. Caveat Emptor, let the buyer beware, due diligence and all the rest of the small print fuckpuddle bullshit that the consumer is supposed to buy into. That’s the culture. Coolio. We all dig it. Its America. Got it.

What I don’t get is the willingness of so many Giants fans who seem to believe that the management of this team is committed to anything other than marketing an illusion of competitiveness with a dimwit like the asteroid head making lineups.

Its been been years of failure to live up to their promise of a championship if they got their new stadium. It has been 18 seasons since this ownership group took over from Bob Lurie. And every year its almost word for word the same shit out of their pie-holes.

“We will do anything we feel is necessary to improve this team, but we don’t want to mortgage our future without balancing the scales of ad sic fuckem lorem.” And so forth.

What I don’t get is the robotic mindset of fans who are satisfied with yet another year of half-measures that get articulated thusly:

“I believe all of Larry Baer’s mindless press releases regurgitated in the media that talks about chemistry, so lets not change anything and oh my gawd Buster Posey is going to win 248 MVPs just next year alone and Madison Baumgarner is already 73 times better than Roy Halliday and we don’t have to pay anything”.

Hope they enjoy yet another finish in 3rd place in the NL West, this year while forking over 100 bucks per game to get fucked again by an organization of cronies and good ol boys that continues to play both ends against the middle.

Its one thing to say you’re going to do it, and something else entirely to have the balls to do it. The problem with the Giants, is that they are trying to win today; sort of, and build for tomorrow; sort of, with a full-commitment to neither. And that’s why you get ridiculous and bizarre and inexplicable lineups like the one tonight. And they do this every year. And the sycophants continue to apologize and/or stick fingers in their ears, cover their eyes and put their hands over their mouthes