The Giants scored 4 runs in one inning to beat Livan Hernandez, and end their 5-game losing streak. After a 24-inning scoreless streak, the team put together a two-out rally, sparked by Todd Wellemeyer’s bat. The rally gave everyone a reprieve from the pressure of a May that was threatening the team’s aspirations of being a playoff club.
However, the win came with some bad news, as Renteria came up lame, and once again, the Giants will be forced to play shorthanded:
…. In the seventh inning, as the Giants tried to add insurance, Renteria sacrificed a pair of runners and felt his right hamstring grab halfway up the line. Two games after he came off the disabled list with a groin injury, the shortstop is headed back to an MRI machine today. He will not play tonight, and Bochy was bummed.
The People Have a Right To Know Whether Their President is a Crook
Well, crook is a pretty strong term, but as each day passes and the next ding-a-ling transaction/roster move occurs, I am beginning to see the the Stooge-In-Chief as almost Nixon-esque. Besieged by an ever-increasing number of followers, fans, and critics with only the loyal propagandists, and a few thousand wine and cheese aficionados (more out of loyalty to their financial commitment to season tickets) give him passing marks.
Even adenoid-voice Ralph is riding him pretty hard these days.
No recitation of Stooge’s carnival performances today; I’ve run out of fingers and toes. But these responses from yesterday are fairly representative. When Stooge is challenged about the ineptness of the offense, he says fans need to wait until the old unhealthy guys he signed to ludicrous contracts when they were injured are healthy and playing on the field at the same time before passing judgment. And there is nothing wrong with Lincecum, he’s just not pitching smart.
Well, sure. We’d all like to wait around until the third millennium waiting for his free-agent signings to come out of the extended-care facilities and show us what they can really do. His comments on Lincecum are not necessarily incorrect, (he has been over-relying on his change-up), but his sardonic, monotonous manner of commenting is like listening to some old fucking literature teacher who is just tired and bored with the whole process and is oblivious to the fact that his unwilling students are a captive audience, not a willing one.
Though it only took him several years to admit, he cedes to the fact that they have no offense, haven’t had an offense, and aren’t really likely to have a big bat now or in the near future. But its not entirely his fault as he readily pointed out, it is an organizational responsibility and everybody has to share in the blame; in the same fucking sentence that he said he bragged about always being accountable. Kind of like when Nixon was claiming the Special Prosecutor, Congress, and the Supreme Court were blaming him for a two-bit hotel burglary; so what the hell was the big deal about?
It never ceases to amaze me that just because a person is by circumstance a general manager, that somehow, because there are so few such positions, that somehow, by default almost, that particular individual is so smart, the riff raff have no capacity to understand the genius of the man, or that he is incapable of prevaricating. Like his most recent denial that the size of Zito’s contract had, doesn’t have, and will continue not to have any impact on their ability to sign any player whatsoever; and that the only reason they couldn’t sign Holliday or others, is because players don’t want to come here. Its basically the “I asked Marilyn Monroe to the dance, she was previously committed, so I had to settle for Bride of Frankenstein” excuse.
Last I checked, recent history shows two POTUS rendered incompetent or shown the door through impeachment or threat of impeachment. And if the most scrutinized job in the world can produce a couple of men so flawed as to flout forced removal from office, how hard is to believe that something so mundane as being a general manger for a medium-sized, privately held company operating under the protection of a legal monopoly, could be incompetent to the point of fiduciary breach?
Man, listening to that interview was worse than listening to David Frost and Richard Nixon. At least those two guys had some semblance of regard for their audience.
couldnt sleep…so i decided to listen to the interview
once every 5 years, the razor decides to ask sabean real questions
this wasnt a tough interview, except to a man who has gone through his career not facing tough questions
ralph even sounded apologetic asking most of his questions
what i gleaned from sabean’s answers, before the meltdown was…
as you stated…he refuses to accept personal responsibility for the state of the org
he again lied about an al team wanting to pay zito more (there are only two who wouldve been in the running, and neither were even spoken about…the only other serious contender was the mets, and their offer was nowhere near sabeans)
he seemed to be taking responsibility for the zito signing….and was even proud of it (never mind that he musta paid no attention to what zito was doing the year before he came here…innings down, effectiveness down)
he doesnt feel that any player is earning what they make….even if they are making league minimum….in other words, sabean lives in the early 20th century, when owners believed that players should thank them for their paychecks…never mind that they are marketing the hell out of panda…the kid doesnt deserve his paycheck
i will take sabean up on his offer….i will be happy to switch jobs with him
cuz when he fucks up a clients active directory, he wont be given a second and third chance….he will be gone.
and i bet you i can bring in at least one big bat….and not bid against myself for his salary
i wont be goin after the burrells, rowands, huffs, derosas or rentarias
i will treat future hof like bonds a hell of alot better than the org did
i wont badmouth my prospects or an entire level of the farm system
i wont be afraid to have a vet benched or dfa just because of his salaray (and if sabean thinks we are so stupid to not believe that the zito salary has an effect on that aspect of the game, then he really is an idiot…this team cant afford to carry any salaries for non players)
i wont let a penny go just so i can sign bombko 2.0
i will take the time to make at least one appearance at every minor league team in the system
i wont go and scout the best hitting prospect that we have after watching him all spring and proclaim. “he is much improved”, as his hitting has been consistently good since he was drafted, and i told everyone that the only reason he was still on the farm was because he had to work on his backstop skills
there are so many other things i wouldnt do
and i would still probably suck as a gm….but i would still be better than that pos sabean
CSN Bay Area’s Amy Guitierrez reported from the sidelines today that the Giants have optioned Matt Downs to Triple-A Fresno, where they will be playing him at short stop and third base in an attempt to turn him into a utility player. This move makes room for Waldis Juaquin to join the Giant’s bullpen which is missing Affeldt (hamstring, day-to-day) and Medders (knee, DL).
Freddy Sanchez, the six million dollar man, having been rushed back from rehab, will be playing second base despite not hitting as well as Downs. This move fits perfectly with the Sabean/Bochy strategy of playing overpaid veterans without regard to individual performance while simultaneously fucking with the heads of talented young players (such as Posey and Downs) by moving them from position to position.
Despite the standard practice of every other team in baseball for more than a century, the Sabean/Bochy team model is to have as many utility players on the team as possible. Utility players tend to secure careers in MLB despite not being particularly talented at any one position by the virtue of their versatility and are used by every other team in baseball as stop gap players when a real position player is injured or needs a day off. The brilliance of the Sabean/Bochy model has yet to be fully appreciated by anyone else in baseball, and has not been adopted by any other team.
It is high time for Sabean and Bochy to get out of Major League Baseball; perhaps they could get jobs as clowns, where their love of juggling could be put to proper use.
Robert,
Nicely said. Well done…and way to tie it all together with your final statement.
Classic Post.
just wondering how many more players these guys are gonna destroy before they are run out of the game
this is just so sad
The Fine Art of Stoogery or How I blew $100 Million of my bosses money in one year
Offensive juggernaut update after 45 games!
New OPS Leader: Andres Torres .886 followed by Eli Whiteside at .872. Two HRs each.
SLG Leader: Eli Whiteside at .532 followed by Andres Torres at .495
And how about the high priced solutions for post-nasal drip?
Aaron Rowand OPS 707 OBP .279 Certainly worth every penny of $13 Million of The Burns estate for one year’s worth of faceplanting in center field.
Aubrey Huff OPS .775 and .352 OBP at least this douche can lay off the slop occasionally and take a walk.
Ed Renteria: Who gives a shit. He’s either on the DL or working out to anti-richard simmons videos.
Mark DeRosa: Before he scurried back to his bunk in the DL tent he was mincing around with a .539 OPS and a .194 Batting Average.
Fred Sanchez: Not even worth mentioning. His biggest contribution has been his medical reports
Juan Uribe: Not too bad for a guy who was supposed to be a bencher: A .780 OPS and is second in walks to Aubrey Huff with 16
Pablo Sandoval: 60 pounds of lard is proving too much in this, the traditional sophomore slump year. .767 OPS 3 HR and a SLG barely over .400 at .424. Sad
Bengie Molina: 722 and a SLG of .370. Truly fat pathos.
Lincecum has some tissue problems with his hand apparently, blister, cracked nails, whatever. Runzler reminds why he was in Single A last year, Romo’s slider has been figured out, Afeldt has hammy issues and now the supposed awesome pitching staff looks vulnerable. Inevitable.
To expect a pitching staff to carry this load of shit on their back like they have for the last 2 plus years is physically, emotionally, and mentally not humanly possible.
The sick part is this is exactly the team that Sabean has been building towards since Bonds was injured. He’s got every single player that he wanted and then some in Torres and Whiteside and Uribe.
Nice fucking job, Stooge.
Asshole.