One month does not make a season

For all of you who are ready to toss it in, in real baseball or virtual baseball, one word: Don't! Streaks, both hot and cold are the norm. I don't know which way my team is going (either team: the giants or any 9), but I do know it is entertaining and there is always hope. Was in LA for the 3rd game of the reverse broom of the "Hated Ones" (that's what dodgers fans call the Giants, fyi) on Thursday. Sweet revenge! Was also (sadly) at game 3 of the LA sweep of the Giants here in Sf during opening week, and one of their "fans" had the gaul to bring a broom to the game. Nothing classless like that, but I did feel like we took care of cleaning their clocks before the season got too old. Buttmando had a 1,2,3 ninth inning, which, after pitching the prior 2 days in a row, was remarkable. He actually looks...dare I say...solid (!?!). Fastball only reached 93, and that was just once--rest of them topped out at 90 mph. Meanwhile, the middle inning relievers on LA, all could be closing for SF (and many other teams). General Tsao has escaped the Col. scrapheap and is throwing nasty gas with lots of movement for LA. Too bad he's like a 5th option in LA (especially after Brazoban gets off the DL to take the #4 slot behind Saito, Broxton, etc.). Still, if they moved him, could be a sleeper for saves for 1/2 of the rest of the NL. Betemit looks absolutely lost out there. Pierre (at the plate) missed the sign for the suicide squeeze, and effectively killed the inning by letting the ball go right to Molina for an easy tag out. Just before the pitch, I was mentioning to my friend that I had seen the 12th inning gaff by the Cards on 4/18 where Puljols was tagged out at the plate on a double steal that was supposed to be a delayed double steal (as virtually all of them are with a man on third). Good thing Fat Al does not get paid to run the bases.

Have seen some ball this month, and all I can say is this: NL West will be a 4 team race, and BABi will have at least that many horses in the midst this season.

...now the trick is to become one of those studs.