Nostradamus Lays an Egg

Note to Jonathan Sanchez: until you can actually contribute to your team, keep your damn mouth shut.

It took just nine innings for Sanchez's guarantee of a Giants weekend sweep of the Padres to blow up in his face. Of course, Nostradamus wasn't around to see the end of it as he once again failed to get out of the sixth frame.

I'm gonna keep saying it until someone listens -- the only value Sanchez has is as trade bait. The Giants should deal him, and pronto. Even if all it brings is a bad of diamond dust and a pine tar rag, this fool has got to go. And if Brian Sabean is so convinced of this guy's capabilities, than Sabes neeeds to be on the same outbound flight.

Of course, there's still plenty of blame to go around. The Giants dropped their eighth game to the Padres in nine tries. Five of those losses have been by one run.

Think another bat or two wouldn't have made a difference?

And how did the Giants address this need. Adam Dunn? Stephen Drew? No way, not when there's a has-been malcontent "veteran" to be had. Welcome Jose Guillen, who will now play for his tenth Major League team. As was written previously -- the Giants already have two water buffalo in the outfield. They didn't need a jackass.

How far can this team sink? Guillen is a .255 hitter with no defensive skills who may be the worst team guy this side of Milton Bradley. The last time someone was this bad inside the clubhouse, Spike was beating the crap out of Spanky and Alfalfa.

Not much more to say about this. The Giants are 3 1/2 games out and being absolutely schooled by the team they're chasing. The front office is clueless, the offense anemic, and the team "spokesman" exhibits about as much control of his mouth as he has of his fastball.

Screw this season and this team. Going to go throw up now.