It's Got to Be the Morning After

We went to our first Giants game of the season on Saturday and is it totally dorky that we were totally excited over all of the new spiffy, colorful, and crystal clear scoreboards at the stadium? Seriously, we couldn't stop admiring them. And we'd like to give a shout out to Phillies fans, or at least some of them, who showed up in red Phillies t-shirts with the name "No, Screw You" on the back of their shirts. They were the best jersey-like items since we saw at a baseball game since we saw somebody at Yankee stadium walking around with a Yankees jersey that said "Costanza" on the back with zero as it's number.

Phillies 8 Giants 5- In probably the most anticipated debut by a Giant since Goliath was called up by the Philistines, Tim the Enchanter finally showed his stuff in the Big Show. How did he do? Well.... He gave up five runs, four of them on homers, but struck out five and hit 100 on the speed gun. He also didn't get tagged with the loss, something that was given to the Chulkster. The end tally for the four-game series with the Phils was a split and considering the Phillies seemed to be up at least by two runs in the first inning of every game, the series has to be considered a success.

A's 5 DRays 3 Was anyone else totally annoyed by all the Clemens hype? We mean, the guy has to be pulling the biggest scam in the history of sports-- he sits out through most of the early season, gets unbelievable money despite playing at least three quarters of the season, and gets more fringe benefits in his contract than a Mariah Carey concert rider. And all we heard during the Giants game was Clemens, Clemens, Clemens, Clemens and Clemens. Also, Yankees, Yankees, Yankees, Yankees, Red Sox, Red Sox, and finally more Yankees. We still maintain that Clemens might be the biggest douche in baseball yet nobody seems to call him on it.

Anyways, Nick Swish was the big hero in the A's game as he hit the two-run homer in the 7th to win it for the A's. In typical A's fashion, one of the heroes of the game was Jack Cust (as in who?) who also hit a home run. We don't know how they do it, but somehow, the A's always manage to get that big hit by some guy not even their fans have probably heard of. We would say it was all luck, but as a famous baseball guy once said "luck is the residue of design" and we're sure some spread sheet Beane has all of this stuff laid out for him. Or maybe it's a Magic 8 Ball? Same diff.