Shorter rants now as I try to update more often.
Day One is in the books and, for the most brief of moments, the Giants ride atop the NL West. Kudos to the schedule maker, who had the Giants open at Minute Maid against the hapless Astros -- who, along with Pittsburgh, are the only teams in baseball as challenged as the Giants from a management standpoint.
There were some positives. The Giants newly-minted 4-5-6 helped stitch together a three-run outburst. Lincecum wasn't sharp but still threw seven scoreless, and Renteria managed to go an entire game without ending up on the DL.
We also, unfortunately, saw Aaron Rowand go 0-5 -- proving spring numbers aren't a indicator of anything. We saw Bengie Molina's glacier-like speed turn a solid double into a single. We found out that the middle of the Giants infield has the range of a quadrapeligic.
And for the really ugly, we found out Brandon Medders still sucks. Why this limp-armed stiff still has a job is beyond beyond me. Pucetas and Hinshaw languish in AAA while this human BP machine gets to wear a Major League uniform? I'm not sure if it's Medders himself or his agent, but someone has got to possess a photo of Sabean doing something unmentionable with farm animals.
But. the G-Men are 1-0. They lead the division (and wasn't it glorious watching the Dodgers tank?).
Day One is in the books and, for the most brief of moments, the Giants ride atop the NL West. Kudos to the schedule maker, who had the Giants open at Minute Maid against the hapless Astros -- who, along with Pittsburgh, are the only teams in baseball as challenged as the Giants from a management standpoint.
There were some positives. The Giants newly-minted 4-5-6 helped stitch together a three-run outburst. Lincecum wasn't sharp but still threw seven scoreless, and Renteria managed to go an entire game without ending up on the DL.
We also, unfortunately, saw Aaron Rowand go 0-5 -- proving spring numbers aren't a indicator of anything. We saw Bengie Molina's glacier-like speed turn a solid double into a single. We found out that the middle of the Giants infield has the range of a quadrapeligic.
And for the really ugly, we found out Brandon Medders still sucks. Why this limp-armed stiff still has a job is beyond beyond me. Pucetas and Hinshaw languish in AAA while this human BP machine gets to wear a Major League uniform? I'm not sure if it's Medders himself or his agent, but someone has got to possess a photo of Sabean doing something unmentionable with farm animals.
But. the G-Men are 1-0. They lead the division (and wasn't it glorious watching the Dodgers tank?).
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