What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Baseball Today?

The Giants won (won!) their tenth out of thirteen games as Noah "Mr. August" Lowry pitched a 4-1 win over the Wild Card leading Cincinnati Reds, their second win in a row over the Reds. Sabean's mid-season pickups are finally showing signs of life as Mike Stanton got the save and Shea Hillenbrand hit a two run home run. The Giants now find themselves three games back in the NL and 3 1/2 out of the Wild Card and with the Mets and Cardinals flailing.....

No, we're not even going to go there.

The Athletics, meanwhile, just won your standard issue, boring beat-down of the Texas Rangers. Didn't the Rangers do all these things to take the division this year? Or are they just setting themselves up to win once they fire Showalter? Anyways, Joe Blanton pitched for the win, Nick the Swish homered, and Frank Thomas scored a run and drove in another. A's fans grab the brooms and hope for the sweep today.

And in non-baseball, yet sports-related news, remember how after the first pre-season game the Niners looked really sharp and Alex Smith looked like the second coming of Joe Montana? Good times...good times....

Well in last night's game, they looked pretty much like your 49ers from last year as they summoned a whopping 78 yards of total offense against the 'Boys starting D and lost 17-7. And that was just the offense. We quote the Chron: "The defense again had trouble tackling... couldn't slip blocks and provided no pass rush. And boy, did they leave some receivers open." Jar Jar Binks Vernon Davis did score his first "TD" (we hate when they make a big deal of all this during a pre-season game) and did some sort of homage to T.O. when he scored to rile up the crowd and should one do some sort of gesture like that when you're a rookie playing on a crap team having a crap game in a crap exhibition game?

Just wondering.