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Post by klaiggeb on Sept 1, 2019 17:34:40 GMT -5
This is supposed to be a professional baseball team.
A team with some veteran players with a nice pedigree.
But for the life of me, outside of a small, small handful of players, I really don't understand how these guys can:
1-Look at themselves in the mirror
2-Take their paycheck each week with a smile, and not think that they don't deserve it.
They don't deserve what they are paid.
They don't.
There are 4 things that CANNOT happen when you play the Pathetic Padres:
1-You can't lose the series.
2-You can't tie the series
3-You can't give up ANY hits to Austin Hedges
4-You CANNOT lose to putzes like Lauer and Lucchessi.
You cannot!
Where is this team's pride?
Where is their sense of professionalism?
I said before this year started that I DREADED its coming.
Outside of that small July spurt, it has been one nightmare after another.
And now we're going out the way we came in.
So much for "Let's win for Bochy."
So much for "We really believe in this team"
So much for "We have a lot of good players."
So much for "Keep us together, we can do it!"
I don't ever want to have to go through this again.
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Post by rxmeister on Sept 2, 2019 8:03:41 GMT -5
I agree you have to beat the Padres, but I also disagree with a lot of what you said. First of all, I give the Giants a lot of credit for even being ahead of the Padres because the Padres are a far better team on paper. They might have the best farm system in all of baseball at this point. Manny Machado is better than anyone on the Giants by a mile, as is Tatis, and even Hosmer at this point. Urias probably will be too by next year. Maybe even Mejia! And their rotation? You’re knocking Lauer and Lucchesi but they’re both good young lefty pitchers who would be number two in the Giants rotation if we had them. Paddock would be right there with Bumgarner. And they have an elite closer and set up men who throw 100 miles an hour and we now have a struggling closer and an army of terrible relievers. I actually give credit to Bochy and the Giants for being ahead of them in the standings and I predict by the end of the season they won’t be.
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Post by klaiggeb on Sept 2, 2019 10:23:41 GMT -5
I'll give you Paddock, Mark, but not Lauer nor Lucchesi.
And from what I've read that the reports are saying about Lauer, they aren't impressed, either.
Lucchesi is funky, no doubt, but every time we face someone who's not normal, we fail and fail miserably.
These guys are supposed to be professional hitters, but you could fool me.
Here's my problem with the Giants NOT beating those guys, and worse, NEVER having success against them.
1-Their approach. I question their attack plan, especially against Lucchesi.
They continually chase out of the zone, and continually look fastball in fastball counts.
That's gallactically foolish against both Lauer and Lucchesi.
2-I've said this before, look at the number of pitches right down the pipe, that they swung at and missed! And it's not just this game, it's every game.
Of course all hitters miss fat pitches occasionally. Lord knows Jeffy and others get away with them all the time but NOT, IMHO, as often as Giant hitters screw up on them.
Worse than that, how many hanging breaking balls did they foul off, or miss entirely? Too many, with Longoria being the worst offender.
3-Our hitters guess and guess wrong far too often.
Biggest offenders? Posey, by a wide margin, and Slater. I've grown older than I am watching these two take fat pitch after fat pitch because "they weren't looking for that...."
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