Running Diary: The Day After the Apocalypse

By now you know about Buster Posey's injury. It sucks for Posey and the Giants and the fans because of what Posey means to everyone. I'm not going to hand wring and say baseball needs to change their rules about players blocking the plate. I'm not going to say Scott Cousins slide was dirty. It was clean and Posey was caught between a rock and a hard place.

It sucks for everyone involved that this has happened. The Giants though have to move on. They weren't scoring when Posey was in the lineup so they'll probably struggle even more now to score. Players like Aubrey Huff and Cody Ross must step up until Pablo Sandoval returns.

So that's why I'm doing another running diary on a Giants game. Will the Giants offense respond with Posey being out? Will they avoid the sweep from the Marlins? Will they take revenge for Posey and beam one of the Marlins hitters? Let's find out.

12:30 PM: Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow start off the broadcast like one of their children just died. Not exactly the way I wanted to start off this game. I think I'll listen to Jon Miller and Dave Flemming on the radio instead today.

Giants Lineup: CF Torres, SS Burriss, 2B Sanchez, 1B Huff, RF Ross, LF Rowand, 3B Tejada, C Whiteside, P Vogelsong

And I thought the lineup was depressing with Posey in it..............

12:34: Giants sideline reporter Amy G reports that not only is Posey hurt, but also infielder Mike Fontenot and outfielder Darren Ford. So the Giants had to call up three players from the minors named Brandon Belt, Chris Stewart, and Brandon Crawford. Belt is the only guy for sure we know who can hit.

12:46: The Giants players looked lost not seeing Posey lead them onto the field for the first inning. Hopefully Huff and Ross step up their production. Also Ryan Vogelsong is pitching today for the Giants and an injured Barry Zito. Injuries haven't been kind to the Giants this year.

12:49: Angel Hernandez is the home plate umpire. Every force is acting against the Giants right now. And you think I'm joking.

12:52: "Do duck boats sail?"-Jon Miller. I'm going to say no because they can also drive on land.

Happy Timmy Day Running Diary

I've always wanted to do a running diary on a sporting event. Bill Simmons has always done running diary's on various sporting events and even Basketbawful has done some running diary's. I like the concept of the running diary because you're just by yourself jotting down thoughts on the game you're watching. That's much different than being with a group for a live blog. Don't get me wrong, I love the live blog because of the camaraderie and the arguments with the other fellas. Sometimes though you need to watch a sporting event completely alone without interaction from Internet friends.

I thought tonight would be a great time for my maiden voyage on the running diary train. Because the Cubs-Giants game on Sunday was canceled, Tim Lincecum's schedule start was pushed back to Monday against the Colorado Rockies. Needless to say this is a must see. The history of Tim Lincecum pitching in Colorado is reason enough to watch this game. This year alone Lincecum took a no-hitter against the Rockies in Colorado into the seventh inning.

And then there's the Giants-Rockies burgeoning rivalry. Needless to say, neither side likes each other and that includes the fans. This should be an epic game or it will be a complete disaster because I jinxed the game because I'm keeping a running diary on the game.

5:30 PT: (Brent Musberger voice) We're coming to you live from 49er16's living room. There's a cold Pepsi to the right of me on the night stand and bag of Peppercorn Ranch Sun Chips to the left of me on the couch. Giants broadcasters Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow are on my TV screen talking about the pitching match up between Tim Lincecum and Colorado starter Clayton Chris Mortensen. Kruk & Kuip both look three sheets to the wind already. This game should be great.

5:33: Tonight's lineups

Giants: Torres CF, Sanchez, 2B, Huff 1B, Posey C, Schierholtz RF, Ross LF, DeRosa 3B, Tejada SS, Lincecum P

Rockies: Fowler CF, Herrera 2B, Gonzalez LF, Tulowitzki SS, Helton 1B, Smith RF, Lopez 3B, Morales C, Mortensen P

Giants fans like myself aren't happy that Tejada gets to start at all. Even with Pablo Sandoval hurt, we want Mike Fontenot playing everyday at shortstop with DeRosa at third base. After Tejada grounds out to 2nd base, I'll explain why Giants fans have a extreme dislike of the guy.

5:35: The CSN-Bay Area pre and post game hosts this evening are Greg Papa, Bip Roberts, and Mychael Urban. Giants fans at McCovey Chronicles always makes fun of Bip because he says things like, "The Giants need to win this inning." So if the Giants have a good or bad inning, Giants fans will say "The Giants won or lost that inning."

5:44: Andres Torres strikes out, Freddy Sanchez singles up the middle, and Aubrey Huff promptly grounds into the 4-6-3 double play. Giants Baseball: It's Fantastic!

5:46: Mortensen is a sinker baller and sinker baller's are the Giants kryptonite. They can't hit em. The only thing they can try to do is work counts and hope to get to the opposing teams bullpen and score there. Also let's just say if Roy Halladay or Cliff Lee were sinker baller's, the Giants would have never won the World Series last year.