sloppy

ok, a few things have gone wrong so far that i didn't see coming. like defense, and pitching, and hitting. but the important thing is that tomas de la rosa is still healthy.
-brad

the next next todd lindens.

I just spent the 3am+ part of my night on minorleaguebaseball.com and thebaseballcube.com going through the rosters and statistics of all the levels of the giants farm system. Among some of the more notable things to mention is that merkin valdez's stats are not notable enough to mention. Also, the giants don't have a single offensive player on any of their minor leauge rosters. On a more optimistic and serious note, the giants actually have 12 or so starters and 8 or so relievers between the A's and AA levels who look very impressive. ALSO this is my vote for coolest prospect on the farm:

Eugenio Velez Augusta Green Jackets (A), SS, age 24
443 AB / 86 R / 88 RBI / 14 HR / 18 3B / 60 SB / .312 AVG / .360 OBP / .553 SLG

The Greenjackets are currently leading the southern division with 47-15 record and ten game cushion. memorize these names, they'll all be star pitchers on the twins soon.

-brad

Giants set major league record with 3 wins in a row!

The Giants have won 3 in a row, 11 out of 14, and have reserved the national league cy young for the next 4 years at least. With a must win road trip on the horizon and the post season again in sight, the question is on everyone's lips, "What can possibly go wrong?"

Here are the only possible answers to that question:

1. Pedro Feliz gets stuck in a wet paper bag for a week, missing the roadtrip completely.
2. Barry Bonds's swing gets soooo bad that he not only continues to hit less homeruns, but also starts hitting homeruns for the other team.
3. Chicago Cub fans still hate Latroy Hawkins so much that they charge the field and injure everyone in the Giants bullpen "for good measure".
4. Omar Vizquel writes another book, this time blaming Noah Lowry for blowing the 97 world series for the Cleveland Indians. Lowry vows to peg Vizquel at short everytime theyre on the field together.
5. Shea Hillenbrand gets in a huge disagreement with management and is traded for Shea Hillenbrand.
6. Jason Schmidt gets put in the bullpen for no reason and when he complains about the move it somehow causes Ray Durham to strain his hamstring.
7. Matt Morris gets some food stuck in his beard and is very emabrassed when it gets pointed out.
8. The Reds go down to LA to play the Dodgers and Ned Coletti somehow figures out a way for BOTH teams to win every game.
9. Kangaroo attack.
10. Armando Benitez blows a save by giving up a homerun to the leadoff batter.

Now that i think about it these are all very unlikely. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

-brad

two is like a hundred times more than one.

first of all! my name is brad and i co-made this website with sam. this is my first blog on this site as i didn't know we were serious about it until now.

-brad

Favorite Giant

I was surprised today to get into an argument with my close friends about who their favorite Giant was. My answer, unhesitatingly, was Barry Bonds. It has always, since the beginning of time in early 1993, been Barry Bonds. However, my "friends" looked at me as if I were Greg Maddux, or any other Down's syndrome victim for that matter. They thought I was being immature and naïve, disrespecting the argument by proposing such a moronic response.

The fact that they proposed ridiculous choices such as Matt Morris and Omar Vizquel is irrelevant. I'm sorry, but if you're a Giants fan and you're trying to say Barry Bonds isn't your favorite player, you've drifted so far from reality that you might as well choose yourself as your favorite Giant (this sarcastic rule, of course, not applicable to Todd Linden, who would not surprise anyone by listing himself as his favorite Giants player). If you weren't convinced by the hundreds of stolen bases, home runs, game winning plays, and dozens of records and awards Bonds brought to this city, try getting off the futon and head to China Basin, where The House That Bonds Built is the most beautiful building west of the Taipei 101. And guess what, it's a packed house every night. Remind you of the Stick circa 1985? Hell no. The Barry Bonds Era has been amazing for the Giants, keeping them in contention the last decade, and daily exhibiting the best hitter since the Babe. Without Bonds, there would most likely be no baseball team in San Francisco, but instead… you guessed it, the Tampa Bay Giants. Peter Magowan must have had the plan to bring Bonds back when he saved the team in 1993. Hell, he signed Bonds just days after buying the Giants, before he had even found a general manager! If you don't think that's a direct link between Bonds and the survival of our beloved team, choke on something, die.

Not listing Bonds as your favorite player would require an investigation as to when and how the definition of "favorite" morphed into an entirely different entity. Morris and Vizquel are choices that fourth graders would choose to show off that they know players the other fourth graders haven't heard of. My friends aren't fourth graders, and their argument was along the lines of "Bonds too obvious of a choice" but that shouldn't make the choice incorrect. That's like a Christian saying his favorite historical figure is St. Jude because Jesus is too "obvious". Bonds is miserable this year, but he has sixteen more homers than any other kneeless 42 year old in the game. So next time he comes to bat and you're wondering why the masses of AT&T Park are so excited to see a .237 cleanup hitter, look around the comfortable yet gorgeous architecture of the stadium by the Bay, and maybe your forgetful, spoiled mind will put two and two together.

So! Who's your favorite Giant and why?

"Slump Yard"

After winning five straight, the Giants lose 16 out of 19. Three and sixteen--another indirect reminder of the looming 49ers season. In the meantime, the Dodgers won 16 of 17 and are leading the division, while the Giants have fallen to last place, seven and a half out and nine games under five hundred. SO, I guess it's time to call it a season and devote those three hours a day for more productive activities, namely anything.

Unfortunately, I don't see any chance of these personal ambitions coming to be. As unlikely as it seems that the team will make the playoffs, I'm just as interested as ever, for myriad reasons. First, if they make the postseason, they'll DEFINITELY win the World's Series, because we are owed it for 2002 and 1989 with the earthquake and no home field and Barry Bonds' martyrdom during the steroid scandal. So that adds to the interest level. Also, if the Dodgers can do it, why can't we? They lost nine straight in July! Most importantly, I have developed my normal daily baseball routine, and any change would disrupt my metabolism and endorphin cycles, among other health-related cycles.