Game Thread: 5.5.17 Cain @ Arroyo

[LHG]

Is it too late to get Neil Ramirez back? Maybe work a trade with the Blue Jays. Give them Morris and half the Augusta roster.

 

[Stokes1931]

Is it too late to get Neil Ramirez back? Maybe work a trade with the Blue Jays. Give them Morris and half the Augusta roster.

How about giving them Morris and promising NOT to give them half the Augusta roster?

 

[calsnowskier]

This team is getting depressing to watch.

If this were a team of rookies or scrubs, I would have little problem watching this.

But this is a team with talent. There is absolutely no excuse for this shit. The clubhouse HAS to be broken. There is no other explanation.

 

[stanford the manford]

If this were a team of rookies or scrubs, I would have little problem watching this.

But this is a team with talent. There is absolutely no excuse for this shit. The clubhouse HAS to be broken. There is no other explanation.

4th highest payroll in mlb.... talent/smalent.... $$ talk

 

[calsnowskier]

How about giving them Morris and promising NOT to give them half the Augusta roster?

 

[LHG]

How about giving them Morris and promising NOT to give them half the Augusta roster?

 

[1phlapdown]

Is it too late to get Neil Ramirez back? Maybe work a trade with the Blue Jays. Give them Morris and half the Augusta roster.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking milk when I read this...

 

[stanford the manford]

on the glass-half-full view, there was never danger of this thing going extra innings...

 

[Stokes1931]

12 walks for the Reds

2 walks for the Giants

 

[LHG]

12 walks for the Reds

2 walks for the Giants

What's your point? We all know that no one runs if they walk.

 

[Stokes1931]

Giants 3-11 when drawing two walks or less

8-8 with three walks or more

So let's just hack hack hack away and be impatient at the plate.

Wouldn't have helped tonight with the pitchers lobbing it up there for BP, but still.

 

[1phlapdown]

Mother of god, 9-23 for the Reds.

 

[LHG]

Mother of god, 9-23 for the Reds.

I know, I'm disappointed in them too. They could have easily hit .400 in this game.

 

[LHG]

Who would have guessed that Josh Osich would be been the best of the 5 pitchers the Giants threw in this game?

 

[msgkings322]

This team is simply incapable of winning back to back games.

It wasn't that long ago that these guys were the BEST team in all of baseball. And the roster wasn't THAT different.

What happened? Has everyone just become complacent?

Again, this roster is missing its (arguably) 2 best players. Not to say they still aren't playing even worse than they should be. And not to say they will recover. But let's see if they go on some winning streaks at full strength. Might be too late but what else is there to do?

Even if we punt on this season, you don't do that until July.

 

[calsnowskier]

Again, this roster is missing its (arguably) 2 best players. Not to say they still aren't playing even worse than they should be. And not to say they will recover. But let's see if they go on some winning streaks at full strength. Might be too late but what else is there to do?

Even if we punt on this season, you don't do that until July.

SPs, typically prevent losing streaks, not induce winning streaks. If Craw didn't go down, Yo would not be up. Not sure either have a whole hell of a lot to do with this shitshow.

And the team was intimate with mule testicles before either went down.

 

[msgkings322]

SPs, typically prevent losing streaks, not induce winning streaks. If Craw didn't go down, Yo would not be up. Not sure either have a whole hell of a lot to do with this shitshow.

And the team was intimate with mule testicles before either went down.

I'm just sayin'. What else is there to say? We either come out of this or we don't. You just keep trying until July.

 

[LHG]

I'm just sayin'. What else is there to say? We either come out of this or we don't. You just keep trying until July.

When we buy, buy, buy!

On a serious note, let's say this team pulls out of this funk and at least gets in the wild card hunt (stop snickering!). What improves on this team and where does the front office improve the team?

 

[calsnowskier]

When we buy, buy, buy!

On a serious note, let's say this team pulls out of this funk and at least gets in the wild card hunt (stop snickering!). What improves on this team and where does the front office improve the team?

There is no way for us to know where the cracks are on this team because they exist off the field. There is addition by subtraction somewhere on this roster, we just have no way of knowing who that player is.

 

[msgkings322]

When we buy, buy, buy!

On a serious note, let's say this team pulls out of this funk and at least gets in the wild card hunt (stop snickering!). What improves on this team and where does the front office improve the team?

Cain is probably not going to help. Crawford will need to be big. Arroyo too. Moore has to figure shit out. Melancon has to settle down.

Obviously they might get a LF at the deadline if they add, and a lefty reliever