Does this Look Like a Contender?

When you're calling card is pitching, God knows nine runs in a ballgame should be enough. As pathetic as the Giants' offense is, nine runs better be enough because failure to capitalize means wasting an entire week's worth of tallies.

And did I mention how much I ##%%% hate Colorado?

When we look back on this season there will be a lot of turning points -- the most galling of which came in the offseason when the moron GM of this morbid franchise decided Mark Derosa was the key to the offense. But right in the front of my brain will be game 155, when yet another season died in agonizing fashion in Colorado.

How about that Giant defense bookending the night? The game ends when the wooden left side turns a single into a way to score from first base -- the perfect capper to a game where the first run scored on a a pop fly to right that the slowest outfielder in organized baseball played into a two-run hit.

Thanks Sabes. Nice acquisitions. What, the guy with the walker wasn't available? Maybe there's a double amputee you can sign for 2011.

Of course, Sabean has company in the outhouse. Why the @#$% did Bochy EVER pitch to Tulowitski? The hottest hitter in baseball for a month gets TWO chnances to beat the Giants -- after he's already homered? That's beyond stupid. In the eighth, walk him and pitch to Mora. Mora might line a single and score a run, but he's not going deep. At that point the extra-base hit was the concern, Tulowitski was the threat, and they served it up. Not willing to learn from their mistake, the pitched to him again in the 10th for the eventual loser.

Stupid. Just plain stupid.

The Giants, as has been the case all year, showed no killer instinct when it counted. Say good bye to first place.San Diego got a walk-off win, the Giants lost the same way. Coincidence or providence?

They had a chance to put the Rockies away, and they let them back up off the canvas. So now Sunday becomes  a must win. Drop it, and I predicit two things happen -- Colorado comes on to win the division and the Giants miss the playoffs.

Nice job, guys. Once again we saw the difference betwern contenders and pretenders. When I need a sure thing, I'll bet against you.


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