In Zaidi we trust - The Giants

Pour one out

Y'all know it's only his stress level that's keeping the plane in the air, right

he died as he lived; only paying attention when his team was good, then somehow making it all about himself

fly high, frontrunner

Press F to pay respects

i was a bit too emotional the other night, i get to invested in this shit. sorry everyone.

and no mookie, i pay attention on the down years too and buy Extra Innings every single year, i just took a long break from ILB is all, as see above (too invested).

Imagine if you were a Padres fan right now, oy vey

Sure, our extremely expensive, all-in season is falling apart, but at least we've never won a title

The only thing that would bring me down this year is if the Giants lose to the Dodgers in the postseason and/or the Bums win it all again.

This season is already found money (I mean they sit at 85 wins right now... a total that I would have considered amazing progress if they ended that way). They have a top 10 farm now. Tons of money coming off the books. Possibility of signing Bryant. Proven elite hitting can happen at 24 Willie Mays Plaza without the roids. I can go on. They should be competitive for some time now and the best Faidi years are still ahead. I don't see them pulling off a WS win this year since the starting pitching is completely unreliable outside of Webb, but they could get close.

Padres have had a classic case of "celebrating at half time" a la the Falcons in the Super Bowl and a ton of injuries. They can still sneak in and grab a Wild Card spot though. They remind me a bit of the 2nd half 2016 Giants but with 1000% more hubris. Until they win something that hubris will only hinder them. Perhaps they need to lose more before they truly can pull one out, a la the Dodgers.

Speaking of - Dodgers are expected to win 100+, expected to win the division, expected to go deep and/or win it all.

Anything short of that is a satisfying dose of schadenfreude.

what a game tonight, thou the Giants never scored an insurance run as they had to have around 12 chances with running in scoring position. to lose this game would have been heartbreaking.

2 out of three and take the series season versus the Dodgers. that will work.

first team to 90 wins and 40 games over .500

first team to sweep the Rockies this year at their park

a sweep on the road and go 6 - 0, will take it

Wilmer Flores had a big game. Fun nail biter of a game

clinched a playoff birth tonight for 2021

incredible year (so far)

bullpen game bit them on the ass tonight

San Diego had to win a game, just wish it came against the Dodgers instead of losing six

.@stevekornacki's model gives the Giants a 76.4% chance of winning the NL West 👀 pic.twitter.com/xQuP4AiOBJ

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 16, 2021

1 is better than 2

What a game

haha! what an ending

I screwed that up

2 up on the Dodgers is better than 1

you can't make this stuff up. Giants cruising and put their closer on the IL today. up comes Rogers and gives up three in the bottom of the ninth. Giants tie it in the bottom of the ninth on their last strike. and then...

KEVIN GAUSMAN WALK-OFF SAC FLY!
REPEAT: KEVIN GAUSMAN WALK-OFF SAC FLY! pic.twitter.com/M0tART2yUP

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 18, 2021

Dominic Leone has been something this year. has been the opener when the Giants are throwing way too many bullpen games. tonight he closed the game.

what a year

Steven Duggar saved a homer with an incredible effort, but Jorge Soler gets a double out of it pic.twitter.com/BjeNRVAL1r

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 19, 2021

2 out of 3 against an Atlanta team that is fighting for their playoff lives, unfortunately the Dodger did the same. still up and in the end of the week and that is all you can hope for at this time of the season.

LaMonte Wade Jr. has now beat the entire NL West in the 9th inning.

7/22 vs Dodgers (tie-breaking two-run single in 5-3 win)

8/5 vs D'backs (game-tying two-run single in 5-4 win)

9/8 vs Rockies (go-ahead two-run single in 7-4 win)

9/21 vs Padres (go-ahead single in 6-5 win)

— Kerry Crowley (@KO_Crowley) September 22, 2021

nice piece on the Giants: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32249806/the-san-francisco-giants-just-keep-surprising-us

not sure of the last time the Giants actually gained ground on the Dodgers, might be when the Giants beat Walker Buehler.

Kazmir, of all people, gave the Giants four shut out innings to start this game, turns out it was enough

sorry, he actually gave up on earned run

The Rockies' win over the Dodgers last night drastically changed @stevekornacki's model in the Giants' favor pic.twitter.com/PLe9C5i4zc

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 23, 2021

that was short lived, i don't think i can take nine more games of this

What are you going to do if you decide you can't take it?

well, i have HBO for free this weekend so i can watch movies instead. better for my blood pressure

First team to 50 wins
First team to 60 wins
First team to 70 wins
First team to 80 wins
First team to 90 wins
First team to 100 wins

what a year. please, please, please baseball gods let us win the NL West in 2021

8th year in Giants history with 100 wins

1904, 1905, 1912, 1913, 1962, 1993 & 2003

Dodgers lose

Move over, Barry Bonds.

Brandon Belt's two homers tonight allowed the 2021 Giants to surpass the 2001 team for the most homers in franchise history with 236 (via @PavlovicNBCS) https://t.co/SLWuGGXSku pic.twitter.com/hdyuL8y8Oq

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 26, 2021

Padres officially eliminated from post-season play, wow

Magic Number 6

second three game sweep at Coors this month, with a team that doesn't lose at home. 5-1 road trip, will take it

Magic Number = 5

devastating news:

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-brandon-belt-has-fractured-left-thumb-timetable-unknown

Magic Number = 4

congrats Bee.

And a bullpen game

Playing the best team in MLB, Phillies

Giants win

Bullpen game against the Phillies. Need to sweep tomorrow.

Benches clear after Harrison throws up and in to Harper twice… on the 7 year anniversary of the Harper/Strickland dust up

Took two out of three against the best team, Phillies, can they do the same against the Yankees?

Doesn't help missing LWJ. Maybe! They have a vibe going.

Well that sucked

Time to feed on the Diamondbacks and Rangers but probably won't happen.

When Duvall is blowing two runs leads in the ninth then you know you have a problem.

Sorry, devastating loss today.

All they had to do was win one more to go 3 - 3 but instead lost four in a row with the devastating loss in the last game.

Talk about potentially fumbling a bag, Doval apparently turned down a $50 million dollar deal last year. He keeps this up he'll be a setup man by the end of this season. He's got electric stuff but I've never felt he had "it" to be an all star closer. Today along with the Mets game could get into his head. Curious how things move forward.

But ya, devastating loss, not just for the fact the bartender at Finnegan's was rooting for the Yankees dammit

Arson Judge is from Linden (~90 miles east of SF) so he may have had some family/hometown motivation but the final series slashes:

Arson: .600/.692/1.500 = 2.192 OPS
Soto: .500/.462/1.167 = 1.628 OPS

The fact that both Judge & Soto hard-passed on SFG's offers and then proceeded to just launch bombs in the so-called pitcher's park (it was pretty windy all week but still) cannot feel good.

Soto was traded, he’s never been in a position to accept any offer

Talk about potentially fumbling a bag, Doval apparently turned down a $50 million dollar deal last year. He keeps this up he'll be a setup man by the end of this season. He's got electric stuff but I've never felt he had "it" to be an all star closer. Today along with the Mets game could get into his head. Curious how things move forward.

Didn't Soto exercise his no-trade clause against TOR & SFG? IIRC was circa peak-Boras winter meetings in the hot stove thread... Heyman was involved in the leak lol.

Soto’s still under team control until the end of the year. He doesn’t have a no trade clause. The biggest impediment was that the Padres weren’t going to trade him to a division rival, especially when the Giants didn’t have enough major league ready pitching to send back.

apparently Larry June was the Giants honorary captain this weekend??? OFF TOP

Awww <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrZA9CN2LLM

It's my birthday and they lost, not supposed to happen. Five in a row and all seem gut punching.

Extends longest losing streak of the season to six games.

WILMER!!

They had to win one. They need to be better but they are just average. Will keep watching and hoping for a good summer but it needs to start now.

I cut the cord this week, I mean fully cut as I don't even have YouTube TV. So steaming baseball is going to have to go farther than ever.

WILMER!!

― brimstead, Wednesday, June 5, 2024 1:34 PM (two days ago)

On fire

I was so frustrated tonight, when the Astros went up by two in the bottom of the 10th. It just seemed over but they did come back.

WOW.