First Two Game Thoughts

Well the Giants are on pace to lose 162 games so far this year.

Huff is on pace for a .000/.000/.000 slash line.

The Giants led MLB in UZR last year, and based on the defense from the first two games, that may not happen this year. In fact, it appears that before he retired, Jermaine Dye worked with the Giants as a special defense instructor during Spring Training. His classes included "Over-Running Balls" and "Rushing, Then Making Errant Throws".

I'm pretty sure Kershaw only threw 8 pitches total over innings 4-7.

Always nice to see Lincecum get a loss after pitching 7 innings and giving up 1 unearned run.

Not sure why Sanchez got taken out of the game since the "hit" he gave up to indicate he was "tired", was actually just a poorly fielded ball. Sanchez comes out, game slips away. Yay.

Re-signing Freddy Sanchez through 2012 seems like a really odd move after the first game of the 2011 season. Charlie Culberson has gotten rave reviews, so maybe it would've been nice to see how he progresses in the minors this year before locking Sanchez up for an extra year. 6 mil seems like a lot of money for a guy with 111 games in '09 and 111 games in 2010. His injury history is growing and 6 mil for a (then) 34 yr. old injured second baseman is a little rich. I guess I just don't get why they didn't wait until June to monitor Freddy and see if his paper mache shoulder holds up. I didn't see Sabean announce the extension, but I imagine it went something like this: "Batting Title".

Barry Zito looks completely awesome with his mustache. He needs to wear an aviator scarf and goggles and be called Baron Von Zito.

And Miguel Tejada is leading off game 3. The man with the worst career OBP on the team :( And our 8-9-1 hitters are Rowand-Cain-Tejada. Since that sounds like the 3 worst hitters to hit one after the other, that likely means they will all do amazing and we will be seeing nothing but Tejada/Rowand combos for the next two months.