Offense? We Don't Need No Stinking Offense!

Three hits. Count 'em. Three hits. Tres. Not four, three. Three @$^@ hits.

What can you say? Yet another game where the Giants proved that absent a lesser opponent or a significant amount of charity, they're impotent.

It wasn't the greatest outing for Matt Cain, who surrendered all three runs in the fifth. But he could have thrown a friggin'  masterpiece and it wouldn't have mattered. The Giants haven't scored runs for him in his entire career -- further evidence that anyone who calls this a slump is in total denial about the team's shortcomings. Slumps don't last five seasons, and that's how long it's been since this team's offense was worth a flip.

It appears that the Giants' singular offensive strategy is to bore the opposition into submission. It worked on Friday, but the old "fool me once" adage seems to have come into play. At least they solved that can't-hit-with-runners-in-scoring-position quandry: they just don't bother to put anyone in that situation.

Just how inept can Brian Sabean be? The offense has stunk during virtually his entire tenure in San Francisco. No current team with a postseason drought at long as San Francisco's still has the same GM that started the skid. Yet Sabean makes millions per season to sit back in his cushy private box and watch as season after season of outstanding starting pitching gets wasted.

He dares to classify anyone critical of his decisions as part of the "lunatic fringe." Who's more of a lunatic, the thousands who keep clamoring for a legitimate middle-of-the-order stick or the guy who continues to claim the team doesn't need one despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary? Jeez, Brian. You'd think a 55-year drought would be a friggin' clue.

The Giants depserately needed at least one more bat at the deadline. They got two journeyman pitchers. Now that August is here he makes a half-hearted attempt via a waiver claim on Dunn -- which failed. Too little, too late. Speculation is that the Dodgers blocked the move. Washington was going to pull back the claim regardless, but why did Sabean wait until other teams even had blocking opportunities?

Sabean sits on his hands hoping that an answer will magically appear. Meanwhile, the Giants have missed a golden opportuity with San Diego spitting the bit in Arizona. One can be thankful that the Giants aren't losing ground, but failing to fall farther behind isn't supposed to be the goal.

The idea (supposedly) is to win. I don't know what the goal of the front office is, but that certainly isn't it.