August 24, 2011
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The Daily News
1 I don’t know that I could keep watching the Giants anymore.
2 They have made it ridiculous to watch.
3 I understand all the injuries, shifts of luck, bad calls, and all the rest, but really?
4 They’re still my team, don’t get me wrong.
5 But when I see one small group of people carrying a group, it irks me.
6 I see it all the time with “grouping” in school.
7 I LOVE allowing students to work in groups.
8 But one thing I could never tolerate is when groups allow their strongest members to carry the load.
9 MANY of you have been there. You do all the work, the research, the entire success of your group, while they chat, play around, and take the A-Train with you. But YOU are doing all the work while they think they’re contributing. Half of the Giants’ current crop of “hitters” are guys who are lucky to have jobs, and who have no emotional investment in the team whatsoever.
10 I’m sorry Giants’ fans, but I see a team that has a pitching staff doing ALL the work, and then a bunch of wussy hitters swinging from the heals at first pitches, taking third-called strikes, grounding into inning-ending double plays, booting routine plays, looking stupid on the bases, and walking around telling people that they have to do better.
11 MEANWHILE…
12 Their pitching staff continues to work their asses off while these lameboy “misfits” let the rest of the nation know exactly what they are: a bunch of hanger’s on who want a free ride without stepping up and getting timely hits, or intimidating other pitchers.
13 Grounder to third. “These guys love to scratch and fight.” “These guys are fighters.” Which guys? The ones who keep grounding out and making idiotic errors, or making remarkably stupid baserunning mistakes?
14 Uh…okay, listen. I’m calling you guys on your stuff. No you aren’t “scratching and fighting.” You are hiding behind the AMAZING pitching staff you have and doing absolutely NOTHING to support them.
15 So I’m calling you out, Giants. Your boushit no longer plays with this lifetime fan.
15 You need to step up, and I’m AMAZED that nobody has kicked your ass to do that.
16 As I wrote those last words, all I heard was “Chopper.” Yes the game was still on. One word. “Chopper.” ’Nuff said.
17 If I taught the way you hit, I’d be run out of the classroom with a cattle prod.
18 So I’m done suffering your limp bats and head-up-your-rear thinking.
19 Gentlemen.
20 Grow a pair.
21 Or lose your astounding pitching staff.
22 You are bums. Nothing personal. But when you ride the talents and efforts of others who are CLEARLY working harder and performing better than you, then you need to dig in and start performing. Otherwise you are bums. And you look like bums.
23 As a lifelong fan, I have to step up and say that I’m done with your boushit.
24 Step up and support your pitching, a-holes.
25 You’re running out of time.
26 Moving on, Part the First: Okay, well I got THAT out of me. I woke up at around 1:30 a.m. last night and read that, thought it was a tad too harsh and too focused on one thing, and decided to write an entirely different DN.
27 By 2:20 a.m. I had basically a repeat of the same thing. There really wasn’t that much news yesterday anyway.
28 How ’bout that heat? KGO announcers always call a day like yesterday “gorgeous”? I called it “Hell”. I made the mistake of wearing a sport coat to work. Stayed late getting my work done and then came home. Is it a wonder I’m a bit irritated this fine day?
29 Heard on the radio that Hurricane Irene was going to come through Alviso and swallow my neighborhood whole.
30 Heard Nick Ashford died of throat cancer.
31 So…Nick Ashford walks into a bar…
33 Heard Matt Cain got behind by four runs.
34 Watched the Giants bats lay flat for most of the game, but by some miracle re-appeared for a late-inning cameo. It wasn’t enough.
35 So no matter how many times I try to re-write today’s DN, the same theme seems to keep sneaking in.
36 The Giants need a tongue-lashing, and they need to fire about eight guys. Eight guys out. Seriously. Bring Brandon Crawford back up, and bring any young guns up from the minors, and scrape all of these broken-down hangers-on into the trash bin where they belong. The formula of buying a bunch of old guys has worked only once, and that was last year. And that’s only because we had GREAT pitching and a team that performed as a team.
37 Anyway, I think I’m going to cut today’s DN short, because I’m an enormous fan of the Giants, and I have invested WAY too much of my time believing in a team that clearly no longer believes in itself. The pitching is carrying these guys, and the non-hitters keep not hitting to win. That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, and needs someone to step up and lay these guys to waste. They need someone to ream them.
38 I have to guess that I’m speaking out on what a lot of really faithful fans are seeing. We saw it happen in recent years with the A’s, the Raiders, the Niners, the Sharks, and the Warriors. And we finally had some joy and hope last season with the Giants.
39 But they seem to have hidden behind their long list of injuries to broken-down players lucky enough to still be hired, and talking about how “we really need to step up”, which is all a bunch of talk. The pitchers have stepped up. Pablo Sandoval has stepped up. Walk the walk, gentlemen, or get out of Dodge.
40 Management needs to clean house. As a true fan, I am finally fed up.
41 I think I’ll go to sleep now; I’ve been awake since 1:20 a.m. and it’s almost 3:30.
42 There are certainly worse things. But tonight was the final straw with this team.
43 The Franchise.
44 Right now it’s a public joke.
45 I think I’ll just go in and enjoy teaching today. I work really hard at my job, and while it is never quite perfect, I give it everything I can, every single day. I was the last car out of the parking lot last night, and I’m still not quite ready, but I’ll give it my all, as I do every single day.
46 So all apologies, just had to vent for a day. I’ll be fine by tomorrow.
47 Thanks for listening.
48 Peace.
~H~
