dochira wrote:
Ah I see what you mean. Fearless pitcher or not, often they would let anyone but Barry beat them. Remember when the D-backs walked Barry to force in a run? They gladly gave up one run instead of taking the risk that Barry would drive in more than one run.
Yup, and what happened after that? Alfonzo made them pay! :mrgreen:
Back to back complete game shutouts for the Padres, by Peavy and Lawrence. They scored 40 runs in 4 games. Since the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks, the Padres are 1.5 up in the west, their biggest lead this season :woot:
Noooo!!!! Not the Padres! At least it wasn't a shutout. The Giants sort of came back in the fourth, only to see the Padres bust it wide open in the fifth. :mecry: Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
bmwracer wrote:
That's what interleague play is all about. ;)
I know...but it was the Royals. The team with the worst record in baseball. And they thumped over the Giants like they were a minor league team!! :mecry:
When they went on their six-game winning streak, it looked like there was a glimmer of hope. But after losing 10 of 11 (I think), the glimmer has faded.
But there is the second half, and teams have turned it around post All-Star break..... The half-full glass is starting to develop a leak.
dochira wrote:Sad, sad day. The Giants were once again beaten by the KC Royals. :puppydog: How can you have the base loaded with one out and not score??? :beaten:
UUuuuhgh... :mecry:
Hard to be a Giants or A's fan these days. :ashamed:
-PCM
This is hilarious:
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050616&content_id=1092196&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak
Z wear: Barry Zito, the club's resident renaissance man, figures to have a variety of employment options when he retires from baseball. He's a rapidly improving musician, a published photographer and he's dabbled in acting.
This spring he dabbled in fashion design, and the first 10,000 men who show up Sunday for a Father's Day game against the Phillies will take home the fruits of his labor -- a garish necktie that Zito is using to pay homage to a '70s icon.
"It's the greatest tribute to Greg Brady I could come up with," he said.
Zito said he was approached by Adrienne Carew, Oakland's special events manager, at this year's Fan Fest. She asked him if he was interested in selecting the giveaway tie from a few existing designs, and he said he'd rather design it himself.
"So at Spring Training I went out and bought 58-color set of Sharpies and just went at it," Zito said. "It was a blast. Anything creative like that, I'm going to be totally into it."
The design he submitted to Carew featured a series of Z's and the colors in which he's decorated his Hollywood Hills home. Carew, he said, countered with a couple of changes.
"Chocolate brown, burnt orange and mustard yellow. Classic '70s," Zito said. "But Adrienne said they needed to incorporate the A's color into it, so I threw in a chartreuse and olive green instead of the burnt orange. And she inverted the Z design to make it fit better on the tie."
The tie also features a tiny version of Zito's autograph, and a stack of the finished products have been on top of some boxes near his locker for a few days. As of Thursday, none of his teammates have asked for one.
First baseman Scott Hatteberg, one of Zito's best friends on the team, had one word for the tie: "Ugly."
Zito disagrees, but he does make a significant admission: "The unfortunate part of this is that the only wardrobe this will fit into is mine."
Perhaps that will change with Zito's second Macy's tie.
"I think they want me to possibly design one to sell in their stores, with the proceeds going to my Strikeouts For Troops thing," he said. "And if I do that, I'll be able to just go off in any direction I want. That'd be a lot of fun."