Today was a fun game to watch. Madison Bumgarner pitched beautifully, the Giants got their trademark 4 runs, and the bullpen didn’t do anything to mess things up. It’s always fun to beat the Padres, especially because I watched today with TGaGaaCB Padres correspondent Levon, who was not exactly thrilled with his team’s performance.

These lefty-righty platoon splits are pretty interesting. In the blue corner, we have Belt/Nate/Crawford/Burriss, and in the red corner we have Hector/Pill/Arias/Theriot. It’s hard to know what to make of it, especially while Pill and Arias are hitting as well as they are, and Pill’s defense in left field is not too atrocious. I’d love to see more of Brandon Belt, especially because he has actually hit lefties really well in his short career. Actually way better than against righties, but if he’s got a hole in his swing, he should probably just watch more of Jamie Moyer. Or something.

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After Tim Lincecum singled to break up Anthony Bass’ perfect game, we knew that all bets were off. It’s like when you’re watching a movie, and you while everything may be a little weird, it hasn’t quite crossed over into the realm of “supernatural.” People are moving and doing crazy things, but you could probably close your eyes and just pretend that somebody really could run up that wall, or dodge those swords. Sure they could.

And then Timmy gets a hit, and the world broke. Peter Parker shoots webs out of glands in his wrists. Shia LaBeouf ended up with Megan Fox because giant robots. Clearly you’re not a golfer because nobody fucks with your fucking lady friend when there’s a beverage here, man, but that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

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I sat down to write today’s post-gamer, and I ended up staring at a blank screen for about five minutes trying to think of something to write about. I surfed over to today’s box score to find something interesting, “Liked” something on Facebook that my friend posted about something or other, talked to my friend about some video games, and oooh it’s my turn on Words With Friends! Maybe I’ll go with “oil” in the corner there… oh right, this game.

Today’s game was pretty annoying. The offense wasted an excellent outing by Matt Cain Barry Zito, and the bullpen blew it again. Those are things that will happen, but that doesn’t make them any less annoying. Still, I’ll focus on some positives.

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