Giants are sinking faster than San Francisco's Millennium Tower

[Auggie]

After today's 6-0 loss to the Rockies they are now just nine games over .500. At the all-star break they were 24 over.

Over the last five games their power-house offense has produced a total of sixteen hits. 161 at-bats equates to a .099 batting average.

The Millennium Tower, located in Yerba Buena next to the Transbay and Salesforce Tower constructions, is a symbol of the new San Francisco wealth. The tony high-rise, currently offering the most expensive one-bedroom in the city, houses such luminaries as Hunter Pence, Joe Montana, and a slew of tech brethren.

The building is also sinking.

...Since its completion in 2008, the 58-story building has sunk 16 inches, according to an independent consultant hired to monitor the problem. It has also tilted 2 inches to the northwest.

"That’s significant ... and of concern," said Professor Greg Deierlein, director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University, who has been called in to evaluate the designs of a couple of San Francisco’s newer downtown high-rises.

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/1/12341914/millennium-tower-sinking

[KamaAina]

1. The engineers who built the Millennium Tower failed to drill down to bedrock.

What are Bochy's and Sabean's excuses?!

[Auggie]

4. Bam Bam Meulens, hitting coach

Notice that his arrival as hitting coach (2010) coincides with the beginning of torture baseball? Yeah, I know -- three championships. But torture baseball only works when pitching backs it up. This shit has gone on long enough.

[KamaAina]

6. The scary thing is that they had dibs on Barroid.

I know, I know. That's why it's scary.

[JonLP24]

7. Ain't he with the Marlins?

I remember him hugging Ichiro after his 3000th hit IIRC

[Auggie]

8. Yep. Hitting coach.

[KamaAina]

2. At this rate, the only Orange October we're going to have is if Trump comes back to town!

[Auggie]

3. LOL

[Brother Buzz]

5. The Giants still have a reasonable shot at a Wild Card berth

That is, if they can pull out of their nose dive and level off.

[Auggie]

9. Another blown save by Santiago Casilla ...

Sept 17, vs. the Cardinals.

Booed off the field, no less.