Tuesday, August 25, 2009
THE SEASON IS OVER
When, oh when, for the love of all things good and holy, are my teams going to stop being the victims in heartbreaking losses?
We had a 4-1 lead going into the bottom of the 14th last night at Coors Field, and suddenly, the Giants pitchers became massively retarded. A couple walks, including to the pitcher, and then a grand slam, and suddenly instead of being two games out in the wild card race we're now four games back.
The entire weekend was a compendium of ways to blow a ballgame. We're up 6-1 on Saturday and still get slaughtered. We're up 2-0 with Timmy pitching on Sunday and the Rockies come back and get a home run for the lead in the 7th. And don't make me relive last night's debacle. If we just hang on to all three of those leads, we are two games up in the wild card race. TWO GAMES UP! Instead, we are FOUR GAMES BACK. Unreal.
Oh, and by the way, fuck the Colorado Rockies. That franchise exists solely to be a thorn in the side of the San Francisco Giants and their fans. Nothing the Rockies do ever benefits the Giants, and everything they do hurts the Giants. Even in 1993, Colorado's expansion year, they had already established that their purpose was to mess with San Francisco. Keeling over against Atlanta in the four-game series to end the 1993 season and put the Braves in the playoffs while the Giants, 103 wins and all, had to stay home. Then 1998, when all the Giants had to do to win the wild card was hold on to a 7-0 lead at Coors field, and the Rockies came back and won...and the most disturbing image of all was Dusty Baker smiling as he went onto the field after that game. There's a bunch more that I can't go into for fear of killing myself with a hammer.
I hate the Colorado Rockies.
We had a 4-1 lead going into the bottom of the 14th last night at Coors Field, and suddenly, the Giants pitchers became massively retarded. A couple walks, including to the pitcher, and then a grand slam, and suddenly instead of being two games out in the wild card race we're now four games back.
The entire weekend was a compendium of ways to blow a ballgame. We're up 6-1 on Saturday and still get slaughtered. We're up 2-0 with Timmy pitching on Sunday and the Rockies come back and get a home run for the lead in the 7th. And don't make me relive last night's debacle. If we just hang on to all three of those leads, we are two games up in the wild card race. TWO GAMES UP! Instead, we are FOUR GAMES BACK. Unreal.
Oh, and by the way, fuck the Colorado Rockies. That franchise exists solely to be a thorn in the side of the San Francisco Giants and their fans. Nothing the Rockies do ever benefits the Giants, and everything they do hurts the Giants. Even in 1993, Colorado's expansion year, they had already established that their purpose was to mess with San Francisco. Keeling over against Atlanta in the four-game series to end the 1993 season and put the Braves in the playoffs while the Giants, 103 wins and all, had to stay home. Then 1998, when all the Giants had to do to win the wild card was hold on to a 7-0 lead at Coors field, and the Rockies came back and won...and the most disturbing image of all was Dusty Baker smiling as he went onto the field after that game. There's a bunch more that I can't go into for fear of killing myself with a hammer.
I hate the Colorado Rockies.
