At Least It Wasn’t Second Base

The Shawn Estes comeback story may have reached an untimely end.
How are all these “athletes” such klutzes? I completely lack the characteristics generally associated with athleticism and grace and I couldn’t do this stuff if I tried – then again, I spend 80% of my existence is in a hyperbaric chamber, dictating to my [...]

Restraining Order for Sabes?

Per Keith Law, the Giants are said to be “obsessed” with Justin Smoak, the powerful, sweet-swinging, switch-hittin’, banjo-strummin’ root-and-tootin’ son of a gun first baseman from South Carolina.
According to Law, though, if Tim Beckham’s there at 5 this Thursday, all bets are off.
Rumors and innuendo to be sure, but if that’s the game plan, have [...]

Giants Calculus

Call it the Anti-Disney Theorem:
There exists an inverse relationship to the magnitude of historic achievement in a single game to the chances of a San Francisco Giants win.
On a night in which the Giants honored Omar Vizquel for breaking Aparicio’s record and the Giants turned their first triple play this millenium, the boys couldn’t [...]

Holy Sweep!

“Ace” Barry Zito leads the Giants to a sweep of Randy Johnson and the first-place D’Bags to cap a 6-3 road trip.
Let the record show that Orange Black and Blue takes absolute full entire credit for that. You can be sure that Warm Fuzzy Zito Feeling Email Writing Campaign (don’t you like the ring [...]

To Sir Zito With Love

Good Vibrations isn’t just the place where you go to buy your special someone a little “toy” to play with; it’s something the recently less downtrodden Barry Zito feeds off of in order to get a good start going. After finding his personal email address on his website two weeks ago, I have taken [...]

Misch-cast

Good news for the pitching staff as Kevin Correia and Merkin look to be progressing. Correia could even be back by the second week of June, if I’m reading correctly – which, between the glass eye and the early morning cocktail, I’m probably not.
KC and The Sunshine Band’s return might spell the end of [...]

???

Who were those guys?
Excuse my confusion, but those mysterious men in gray scored in double digits – for the first time all season. (They were the second to last to get there, however, with the Royals still reliably being the Royals.)
I gave Feliz-lite grief yesterday for his atrocious hitting with the bases loaded, but [...]

Posey at 5?

In his latest mock, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com has the Giants taking catcher Buster Posey of FSU.
Posey is supposedly still a real consideration for the Rays, who have the #1 pick and are stocked with young studs at every position save for catcher. In this scenario, however, the Rays take Tim Beckham, [...]

8 Bits of Wonderful

Tim Lincecum is good. Really quite good. I can’t overemphasize how good he is.
He proved it again last night.
He has a third of our team’s victories. In other words, if this team wins 75 games, he would have 25 wins.
He’s 5-0 when the Giants enter his starts on a losing streak.
He’s 7-1 [...]

Midday Break: Norwich Bashing, Alou and Porn?

- Joe Perez of the Norwich bulletin has harsh words for Travis Denker and the entire Giants organization (I think I kinda like this guy) regarding the spate of complaints concerning the temperature in Norwich and the dimensions of Dodd Stadium.
- Felipe Alou: next Mets manager?
- Everyone’s favorite adult-film moonlighting ex-Giant (and the then-centerpiece of [...]