| time: | 7:05 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Brett Tomko (2-11, 5.70) vs Matt Cain (7-14, 3.78) |
| pre: | Padres.com, B-R.com |
Great win Friday night (box score). Don’t believe me? Look at Saturday’s pitching matchup.
Five things:
- Certain promotions notwithstanding, the ’90s are not “retro,” although one day they will be.
- Chris Young is slowly returning to form, which is good because without him, the Padres are hosed.
- Khalil Greene and Kevin Kouzmanoff are carrying this team on offense right now. Khalil, Kouz, Brian Giles, and Adrian Gonzalez all have a SLG of .500 or better since August 1. Small sample, but nice.
- Extra mad props to USD alum and ex-Padre farmhand Dan Giese for serving up the walkoff homer to Khalil. Way to do right by your city.
- Paging Matt Vasgersian: Please return to your assigned post. Regards, my sanity.
Go Padres!
there we go. Alright Cammy!
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49: No…. haha
Cameron!
Quis celebrating a home run is like a big juicy fart after a delicious bean dinner.
Quis is only a little unbearable on that one. Love Grant’s KISS riff. That’s how you do it, Steve-o.
55. unclear if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
related note, I just spend $30 on burgers and ate it all by myself.
57: Both
I wish we could hit against the Giants bullpen all the time.
Quis’ call on the double play when thatcher was in was actually more annoying than Cam’s HR
Re: 55 ha have the sound off cause I cant stand Quis!
They need to start looking for a decent replacement for Matty V. I actually like that new guy they got on the radio from the Cubs, maybe they could ask him. I have no idea how Quis got his job.
do you guys agree with me that his excitement calls are the only major negative?
cuz I don’t think he’s THAT bad otherwise.
Hilariously prescient post from mccoveychronicles before the game:
” Matt Cain well pitch well, but throw 100 pitches before the 7th. (turns out he was removed before the 7th for other reasons, though)
The Giants won’t be able to hit Brett Tomko.
The bullpen will give up a run or five.
Scott Hairston and/or Khalil Greene will drive in some runs.
Thanks for visiting my site. I just saved you three hours. Come again tomorrow.”
wow could Barrett be any more worthless this game?
Re: 63 nope I think he lacks baseball knowledge and is increadibly boring as well.
63: No way. He is terrible, boring as hell, tries way too hard and is either misimformed or incredibly stupid.
yeah I guess
69: Alright. I’ll agree with you Eric. To me Quis is “okay” the rest of the time. To me, it’s only in those excited moments of his when he’s trying to be Matty V he becomes mutable.
that AB was epic
Dirty slider by HEAT on a 15+ pitch AB it seemed like
70- agreed
Woah, check out the tatoo on that pitcher’s arm.
Which begs the question… what’s stopping a pitcher from tattooing cheat notes on his arm? Would that be an unfair advantage? You know, pulling a Belichick?
nice game for Blummer
It was still a mistake to let Blum hit against the lefty in the 8th ?
Wow, just got home, dreading seeing the score and am happily surprised.
As for Quis, he is just as awful on the Chargers too, hopefully someday people just stop giving him work.
between quis and blum, this must be “admit they’re sort of OK sometimes” week
Blum has way more upside than Quis hahaha
Now I’m starting to feel bad about all this Quis and Blum bashing. What if either one of them read this blog?
I’d feel so horrible if I ever found out there was people blogging about how crappy a web designer I was.
dodgers beat the Dbacks. Longshot, but I think it’d be great if both SD and LA passed AZ. Teams that are pythagoreically lucky really annoy me.
80: Could be a good thing for Quis, maybe he would take it as constructive criticism. I’m a web designer as well, it would be funny if someone actually blogged about it.
80: I’ve been thinking that for weeks. We all know Matty V has checked in here, why not Quis, yknow?
“I hate Geoff Blum with a passion.”
quote from a Giants fan on McCovey Chronicles, Interesting to see the other perspective.
I am glad everyone else seems to agree that Steve Quis is awful. I have been hoping to see something in one of the newspapers. Besides shutting up he needs to at least get a clue about the rules of the game.
Ah, that was a fun win. (Aren’t they all?)
#80: You’d be surprised who reads us. No, I’m not going to drop names.
#82: I blogged about web design at my old job; there are a lot of blogs out there on the subject.
86: I meant about my web design in particular.
Very fun win, fun game to watch. Tomko looked good and he seems as good an option as any for the back end of the rotation.