Mike Stanton

The Giants just traded for Nationals reliever Mike Stanton, whose miniscule 4.47 ERA should provide an immediate mental boost for our dismal bullpen, which gives up an astronomical 4.58 runs per nine innings. You may remember Stanton from the World Series about ten years ago, when he was barely thrity. An interesting note is the prospect we departed with was Shairon Martis, who threw a mercy rule no-hitter for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic. Predictably, his Wikipedia entry already lists him as one of the best pitchers in the Nationals organization, despite never being considered much as a Giants farmhand. Martis is wisely taking the Joe Nathan route of dominating immediately after leaving the Giants, which should be an interesting development. Speaking of which, Salomen Torres, longtime friendly rival of Barry Bonds, is coming into pitch with the bases juiced... let's see what happens

Giants lose 3-1

It was fitting to see Robb Nen in attendance at the Giants game today, after the ugly incident at the World Cup. Zinedine Zidane will end his sensational career after experiencing a total mental breakdown during the biggest stage in futbol.

Robb Nen, on the other hand, ended his career during the biggest stage in baseball, when he over-exerted himself during WWII, also know as the World Series 2002, when the Giants blew a five run lead in Game 6. Then they signed Nen to a two year $18 million deal. Then, they traded Joe Nathan and Francisco Liriano to the Twins for cancer, because we didn’t need a closer, because we gave Robb Nen so much money. Then Nen’s arm turned to cream of wheat, and he went on vacation. Tim Worrell was thrown into the closer’s role, had a good year in 2003, and was rewarded with a two year contract for the 2006 & 2007 seasons. Along the way, Tyler Walker came in with the bases loaded and struck out the side, and Matt Herges’ slider made jaws drop for a month, but both turned out to be frauds. SO, Brian Sabean bit the bullet and signed Benitez to a 21 million dollar deal, which, a month into 2005, had people looking around the ballpark for Dustin Hermanson. The Dodgers, meanwhile, saw Eric Gagne go from bad starter to best closer in the galaxy to post-steroid depression victim. However, no problem, they luckily had picked up a 41 save guy in the offseason as insurance, and then when he wasn’t quite up to par, got Saito to shut down the Giants. It’s been a frustrating half.

Big series

Big series coming up. The radio says we're sending our four best pitchers, so I believe they mean Wright, Hennessey, Correia, and Wright. Plus, one of the Alou's has decided he's not too old to play outfield. Find out which... at 7:05

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