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15 hours ago, cmm said:

The Texas-NY (AL) game has been in a rain delay in the top of the 9th for two hours. Maybe if they didn't have a pregame rain delay without rain for 21 minutes or delay the game for 5 minutes for a political rally sing-a-long in the 7th, they would've finished. Screw this stupid team.

You do realize the umpires usually have the most leverage in game situations once it starts?

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Yes I do. But it's the Yankees' call to stop the game to sing God Bless America. And it's the Yankees' call to have their grounds crew stand and do nothing during the song, and then once it ends to finally start putting the kitty litter on the mound, which delayed Luke Jackson's warmup even more. And I'm pretty sure the Yankees had the most input in the pregame delay. It used to be up to the umpires when a team was making its last trip into a city, but I think that changed once teams stopped making multiple trips into non-divisional cities.

 

And it was Girardi's fault for coming out to complain in the 9th inning when the rain had been falling at the same rate as it had for the prior few innings.

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On 6/1/2016 at 8:30 PM, SFGiants58 said:

 

Add Pence's latest trip to the DL and Casilla and bullpen falling apart to that list. We might have a vintage-flavor June swoon on our hands! Oh boy...

 

At least I have hope in our non-MadBum rotation to turn things around before they get out of hand, something largely absent in the past three years.

 

A month later, it looks like the June swoon didn't happen. The Giants actually managed to beat teams they were supposed to beat in the month of June. Then again, they did this in 2011 (with a lot of similar AAAA players), so I'm not putting all that much stock in it.

 

Also, the Rangers and Cleveland have gone on an absolute tear as of late. I like seeing the AL shaken up a bit.

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Man, the Giants need bullpen help in the absolute worst way. Despite that, they still have, like, the third best record in the league. What a strange season. 

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1 minute ago, Bucfan56 said:

Man, the Giants need bullpen help in the absolute worst way. Despite that, they still have, like, the third best record in the league. What a strange season. 

 

They also need Duffy and Pence back, as well as the "good" Shark. I can't stress enough how much the Giants need their defense to be fully functional (which it really isn't when your fielding AAAA infielders/outfielders instead of Duffy and Pence).

 

I like it when the majors are strange, as it always leads to some interesting stuff. Heck, Dusty Baker might be able to screw his own team again! 

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After getting trounced via the double whammy of Joe Maddon's Waxahachie Swap & Javy Baez' grand slam last night in 15 innings (deep breath), the Cubs have a 3-0 lead after a Rizzo inside the park homer, courtesy of the ball hitting Billy Hamilton's orbital bone.

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I'd be happy to see the Marlins succeed.  Jeffrey Loria doesn't deserve it, but the fans (however many of them there are) deserve to see their team succeed.

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13 minutes ago, Crabcake47 said:

I'd be happy to see the Marlins succeed.  Jeffrey Loria doesn't deserve it, but the fans (however many of them there are) deserve to see their team succeed.

There really is no where else in that market to go but out yes?  New stadium, new branding...

 

What's the next carrot?  Relocation to Havana??

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1 hour ago, Kramerica Industries said:

Well, history favors the Marlins in the case because the Marlins have beaten the Giants in both of their playoff years. 

 

1997, 2003. Odd years. Irrelevant. 

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There are fart-smelling whispers going around social media that the Cubs are going to acquire Sean Doolittle from the A's.  There are further farts that imply Cubs would trade for Doolittle, Josh Reddick, and Sonny Gray in exchange for Kyle Schwarber, Jeimer Candelario, and another minor leaguer.  


I don't buy them dealing Schwarber, but I could definitely see them picking up Doolittle alone for a more modest package that doesn't include Baby Ham Jesus.

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With Willson Contreras making his mark in the bigs, Schwarber has ehh-kinda-become expendable, assuming they had future plans for Schwarber as a catcher. However, dealing him for a rental RP seems insane. They can just go bullpen help in exchange for Soler.

 

As for Sonny Gray, do the Cubs really need to upgrade their starting pitching? (Lemme answer that. NO.)

 

And taking on Josh Reddick to have him platoon would be insane.

 

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Also reading the Yankees want Schwarber for Andrew Miller, and nothing else.

 

No thanks.

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Tonight's Giants-Athletics game is perfect evidence for my argument that defense is the biggest reason why the Giants have been able to stay in contention. Without their consistently good defense from guys like Pence, Panik, and Duffy, things fall apart.

 

I am not freaking out, but merely pointing out a sadly overlooked facet of the Giants' recent success and how it's absence has really made the difference in down years (i.e. whatever the crap happened in 2011, the Pagan-less months of 2014, and much of 2015). I'm sure the Giants can right the ship with the right moves at the deadline and as guys get back into the lineup, but I hope stretches like these can finally show the baseball public that the Giants' strength isn't the rotation so much as it is their defense.

 

"Defense wins championships" applies to baseball far more than people think. Heck, it's a big reason why I defend Bill Mazeroski's place in the HOF.

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