There's still a month to play.

"Men aren't pigs....that's an insult to pigs"

Posey hits a monster to make it 4-1. Renteria a down the line shot to make it 4-2. Burrell your everyday looking homerun to make it 4-3 then Uribe a laser to make it 5-4. Wilson throwa a heart attack 9th but survives and the Giants survive another day in the race.

Sanchez seems to be every other start good and bad. last one was good so keep fingers crossed.

Regarding Rowand, his history had been very good against Lilly, and judging from how hard he hit him in the first couple of at bats, that wasn't such a bad choice. Ethier (hi Billy Beane, you Brad Pitt genius you) made a couple of great catches on long drives. Bastard.

Just like the Rockies games before us, let's not worry about the first one (although I agree Zito picked a bad year to switch things up and become a dud in the second half), and take the series. If the Gs can do that, but the Pads, Phils, or Braves start sweeping, well, hats off to them.

I'm not going to cry wolf, yell fire, or say that the Padres losing all these games in a row is a "total collapse," but boy howdy they are doing their absolute best to stick their chins out at us and say, "Go on, dare you."

Fuckin' hit 'em.

You could be 100% correct about Ford but we will never know unless whoever the manager is gives him an extended stretch to succeed or fail. This crap of taking a youngster and sitting him every time he has a bad game has got to go. You never get to find out if a guy can play or not. That hurt the Giants in recent years past when they would annoint young guys as starters in January having no idea if they could play or not. It was really frustrating when they'd be 15 or 20 games under .500 in August and Bochy would be throwing out a lineup that averaged 35 years old while Ortman, Sandoval, Sherholz, Lewis,and Bowker would sit. It was that strategy that had us annoint Emmanuel Burris a starter only to find out he couldn't hit a lick.

I didn't say this was the time. I clearly stated "when the time comes..........".

They eventully showed they weren't good enough but that could have ben done much earlier.

>I understand your point, do you sit Burrel, Gullien?
>I love Ross hope they re sign him..
>Also Ford has been in the minors for a reason, its all about
>scouting
>I think he is 26 maybe? Lewis has the skill set, but we only
>caught glimpses of his talent.

Lewis is a #4 outfielder. In a hitters park he is hitting .262,
8 HRs and 36 rbi in 412 at bats. However, without ever seeing him play a long stretch uninterrupted he was annointed the starting LF and #3 hitter.

Ford is 24....has 251 career SBs in minors and a career .254 average. He had one good year when he hit .330.

"Men aren't pigs....that's an insult to pigs"