Brown does nothing for you

Yahoo's Tim Brown gleefully trashes the Giants following the opener, slagging Zito under the headline "Last Barry standing falls." How clever! It's funny because no team has signed Bonds yet, don't you know.

Unfortunately, he apparently watched the game.

Meantime, around him, the Giants had an interesting afternoon, including:

• A light collision involving rookie shortstop Brian Bocock and Roberts that left Roberts on his knees, his glove flung into left field.

• A dropped popup by second baseman Ray Durham, leading to a run.

• A couple wild pitches.

• A passed ball.

• Two missed cutoff men by center fielder Aaron Rowand.

• A man (OK, the rookie Bocock) getting picked off first in the eighth inning, in a five-run deficit.

• A few unnerving moments leading into the bottom of the eighth, in which the Giants appeared content to go it without a left fielder. (Which, come to think of it, would have been a suitable tribute to the man who was supposed to have been holding the franchise back.)

Afterward, Zito, the last Barry standing, was asked if he didn’t hunger for the days when he wasn’t so concerned with his stuff, when it was about standing on a mound and knowing exactly what was going to come out of his arm.

His eyes narrowed.

“I was me today,” he said.

And they were them.

They were them, Tim, I guess. Hopefully, next time, the team won't make it quite so easy for you to slack off.