"Let's go, Giants!"

That's what fans were chanting in the bottom of the 9th inning tonight at the tail end of a humiliating 9-1 loss to the Brewers. They were loud enough that Duane Kuiper noted it during the broadcast and said, "God bless 'em." He and Dave Fleming interspersed coverage of the 9th -- which saw Fred Lewis and Ivan Ochoa go down before Winn got a single and Molina popped out to right -- by discussing the Crazy Crab promotion and mentioning the delicious crab sandwiches available at the park. "I could have eaten 12 of them," Fleming said. I was getting hungry just listening to him. Kuiper said the Crazy Crab bobbleheads were probably too scary-looking for young children.

When a team's this bad (40-56), what else can the announcers do?

I might as well go through my usual Brian "Stupid" Sabean bashing, too. With only a dozen days left before the trade deadline, Sabean hasn't managed to unload any of the Giants vets -- even though Durham, Aurilia, Taschner, Winn and Molina would likely bring in some badly needed prospects. Instead, teams like the Brewers appear to have lost any interest that they might have once had, if the SF Chron's Henry Schulman is to be believed.