Yes! The sky is falling according to all you Giants fans. Yes! It's time to shut it down and start to look to next year. Why, you ask? Timmy had another subpar outing.
In his past 3 starts, Mr. Lincecum has 15 1/3 inn., surrendering 14 runs, walking 15, while striking out only 14. These are hardly the numbers that you expect the 2 time Cy Young winner to have. Or is it? Let's take a look at the season as a whole. He has 11 starts -- 72+ innings with over 85 k's vs. 30 BB's, 3.15 era and a 5-2 record. Baseball is a season of peaks and valleys. That's what is great about baseball ... you don't know who is going to show up on any given day.
People have often asked me why I hate the Giants and my response is usually it's all of their "Humm Baby" fans. You guys all drive me nuts. Every week it's the same thing. You go from being just one "big bat" from winning it all to it's time to trade all your veteran players and go with the youth movement. Hey, Giants fan! Your problem is not Timmy or Barry (the clock will strike 12) Zito, it's the fact that you're the worst hitting, run scoring team in the majors. You are the only fans in the majors that would take a player like Pablo Sandoval and make him out to be the Albert Puljos of the West. Now you put the weight of the world on Buster Posey. Good luck, and a great way to ruin your young stud.
You fans have to look only at your front office for the reason that you won't, and never will, be world champions. You throw stupid money at the wrong people (see Barry ... yes, both of them), and then you surround them with veteran players that are about 5 years past their prime. For this I thank you all, I will be around for a long time.
The Sports Wise Guy
You are so right! Just think of the money they would have if they didn't grossly overpay for Zito and Rowand. Zito is a decent number three starter, at best, and Rowand is an oft-injured above-average outfielder who's not cut out to cover the huge center field in SF.
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