Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Posting On Back-To-Back Days? We Gotta Lie Down! (Wheeze, Pant...)
We're going to do all we can to ignore the wild card race and simply focus on the division title right now. The Giants are just three games back of the Dodgers. And even though the Padres are sandwiched in between, this is the N.L. West. A simple run of 10 wins and three losses could be all it takes to get into first place. 
We haven't said anything about the 49ers yet. The 34-27 opening week loss to Arizona, while yecccchy and bleccchy when considering the standings, actually was a bit encouraging. After all, the Cardinals are supposed to be good (for Cardinal standards anyway), and for us to stay that close to them, yeah, we kind of liked it, as much as we can like any loss. One thing's for sure, though, when you have a wide open interception opportunity and you blow it, like one 49er whose name we didn't catch (get it?) did, you're going to make us display some O-negative rage. Next play, Arizona got a first down on third down and very quickly scored the go-ahead touchdown. Which we knew was going to happen. That's just what it's like being a Niner fan these days.
It was good to see Vernon Davis catch a touchdown on his very first professional drive. And not so good to see he needs to learn to hold onto the ball. I don't like faulting a guy for fumbling while making the extra effort to get a couple of yards, but hang on to the rock, for the love of all things red and gold.
