Crap: Brief Observances of the Giants' Face Plant

• That was certainly worth the wait, wasn't it?
• Pedro Feliz's every movement, breath, fart or whatever brings A-Rod an inch closer to San Francisco in 2008.
• Zito wasn't awful, but walking Jose Cruz, Jr.!? Anyone but that guy!
• Giants fans, stop booing when Barry Bonds gets walked. To those listeners calling KNBR and saying what a beautiful day it was regardless of the game's outcome, stifle it. You sound like the people East Coast fans say we are. Knock it off.
• Randy Winn = Bust.
• I am more of #5 hitter than Rich Aurilia.
• The pregame show MC'd by a tuxedo'd Jon Miller was the best production Giants management has staged in my nearly 35 years of existence. Sadly, they know how to produce a good song-and-dance act rather than a championship team. Maybe Magowan should just run "Avenue Q" at A.T.&T. Park nightly and forget baseball.
• Renel Brooks-Moon isn't Bob Sheppard. It's great that San Francisco is a progressive city but the voice of a baseball game shouldn't be shrill. The PA announcer experiment is over.
• Jeffrey Leonard is the only guy who can take the field at an old timers event with his hat on backwards and pull it off.
• I am still surprised to see Mike Cameron's head in one piece.
• Will Clark has gotten to know Krispy Kremes very well during retirement.
• I'm thrilled that Bonds stole a base. I'm even more thrilled to see him not attempt a slide at the plate.
• Mayor Gavin Newsom stayed from the first pitch to the list. Chicks dig the long ball and civics.
• Try watching Barry Zito pitch while sitting next to an A's fan. If you haven't set yourself on fire within 2/3rds of an inning, consider buying a lottery ticket. An A's fan is the dumped-girlfriend-trying-to-put-on-a-brave-face (and failing) in the Bay Area.
• Lance Niekro is like the last season of "Family Ties" with all the retrospective episodes: He grabs a bat. He strikes out. Press repeat.
• Armando Benitez gets to sleep tonight knowing that, for one day, the other relievers sucked more than he does.
• From Yankee Fan Ken: "Zito relies too much on his curve. If it's not working he is average. It's not working today." Is there anything more infuriating than a Yankee fan who's right?
• There's only 161 more to go and they'd better turn it around, like, now.