That’s only been the case in SF.

I’ll give you the final 2 months but Paul Hornung, Alex Karras, must be plenty of others that were the most important player on their teams

Easy – being one short of the minimum AB’s, all the Commish has to do is make sure Giants make up any rainouts – at all costs.

or that Matty gets enough at bats to qualify

Seems quite obvious, actually.  He, like Roger Clemens and so many other users, was at a crossroads in his career when the Yankees and then the Braves dumped him.  He could continue being a mediocre fourth outfielder and be out of baseball before the age of 30, or he could become a better baseball player and win a starting job somewhere.

The narrative he’d have us all believe, just like Clemens’ narrative, was that he rededicated himself to training and got in terrific shape through good old-fashioned hard work and punching a barrel full of rice.  But the truth is they got their training regimen out of a bottle.  

I have more contempt for the guys who lie about the reasons for theiir supposed renaissances. 

I don’t know what you’re talking about.  LA west of the 405 is delightful in August.  San Francisco in August can be foggy and cold, leading Twain to rhapsodize about the coldest summer he ever spent. 

Here in Redondo it’s nicer than it ever is up there.

Almost feel sorry for them. Not.

 By Gnatfan standards, semi-reasonable people.

This is a unique circumstance to my memory of a player being discovered as a cheater when his team is in a close race for the pennant and wild card slots.  The legitimacy of the Giants’ pennant run is now in question.  A lot of people are feeling sorry for Giants fans, but the way I see it, Cabrera kept a mediocre team near the top.  

I think we assume testing has made everybody clean. But, people are periodically caught because everyone thinks they can game the system. There may even be Dodgers doing it. Nothing should surprise us.

It was announced earlier that he has already cleared waivers. He can go anywhere now. Though he did say before the deadline he didn’t want to play for the Gnats.

 This year, Safeco. Throw in a no hitter also.

there were 2 perfect games in 1880. the next season with more than 1 was 2010 which had 2. This year there has been 3. Never before 2 in the same season in the same ballpark

At virtually the same time that the first-place Dodgers begin to play.

wish I had the dodgers feed

Ump blew that call on ellis

As I said before, I am confident that Posey is under orders to try not to get hurt because his bat is so important to his team. I remember when Pedro Guerrero crashed into the stands to catch a foul ball while I was screaming that the out wasn’t worth his getting hurt because he was the Dodgers’ best hitter but he did get hurt. Looking at his stats this was either ’85 or ’88. 

Yes good hit. But M.Ellis looked pretty slow on the two plays after that. But he scores on a fly, and that is what counts

I check all the close calls
 
How are you doing tonight Bob

I loved watching Jimmy hit home runs

That’s a pretty good compliment for McCutchen.

There are so many things I wanted to say about our offense lately but I didn’t want to jinx it

I know I hate that unless we are up by at least 8 runs

and I can concentrate on work!

A checkbook somewhere in Chicago?