Old Gear
I’m sitting here typing this in a worn out, black, long sleeve Giants shirt. No frills, just “Giants” emblazoned across the front. There are multiple holes in it. The “black” has faded to almost gray. At this point, it’s probably only good for sleeping in. I think I bought it in 1998.
It got me to wondering about the gear we all own. Outside of a hat, what’s the oldest Giants gear you own and still wear? This is probably the oldest for me. I wear shit hard so it’s no surprise that I don’t have anything older than this.
Good win last night. When Barry got his curtain call didn’t it seem like the entire Marlins dugout was ignoring it? I wonder how they feel about Barry and his fame. Do they listen to him? Or do they think he’s a diva?
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Gregor!!!!
Looks the the Marlins were just what the doctor ordered. Two triples for Blanco tonight.
Ex Syracuse Chieg Gregor Blanco! double triple
Getting a little ugly for Ege..
Thanks for the extra run rook.
Peavy, Duffy and Blanco coming through big time tonight. It may have been a bit early to consign Jake to the scrap heap and too soon to say that last season’s fine run by Duffy was a flash in the pan. A rested up Blanco is one helluva tool to be able to send out there.
Some games to make up in the Division, but it looks like virtually the whole lineup is contributing again ~ except for Crawford this evening. Miami is not that bad a team, but it appears that they have run into a squad which is getting their act back together after a rough run. Peavy’s performance is particularly encouraging.
Dear Giants,
You’re bitchin’.
(I think Kuiper got it, but chose to avoid calling more attention to it.)
G’night, girls.
Blanco, the new maldanado?
Just don’t mention “triples” to Maldonado. He had an experience with a certain Jose Oquendo’s fly ball.
Giants showing the last two games the balance that we saw in spurts in Spring. Peavy– if he could give 7 frames and 2 runs every games, that would definitely be “bitchin'”. 2 game win streak is nice. Tomorrow, they go up against another unknown hurler, so that sounds dangerous…
Sharkkes finally get past the Kings. On of these days they’ll make the finals.
I don’t see how the ump review upheld the out call on Span’s steal. His foot was clearly on the bag to me before he got touched by the 2d baseman’s glove. These reviews sometimes make no sense to me…
Right. You waste 5 minutes looking at it and disregard what you see.
Teams under .400 don’t stand a chance against this team.
Stix is right, Peavy saga seems like M Python’s “Bring out yer dead” with jake saying “I’m not quite dead yet”.
He kept the ball down most of the night and owned Gordon and Stanton, however hard to believe.
I’m still not sold Dee Gordon is be all end all of 2b after 1 fantastic season. He was a wash as a Dodger, erratic fielder and subject to long slumps as a leadoff; second half of 2014 his OB was .280. He kept swinging at pitches in the dirt last night and never once got on base. One of those guys whose success depends on really high BABIP that doesn’t walk much or hit for power, kind of one dimensional.
Marlins are going to be interesting story as managed by 2 Trips–lot of young players with potential that need to develop for them to contend with Nats and Mets. Right now they’re barely ahead of Braves, not good spot to be in.
A classic case of Marlins being Malcom in the Middle. Mets and Nats topping the Division, Phils and Braves dragging their rears and Miami betwixt and between.
Caught the highlights late last night, what a great play by Peavy to get the runner at first and keep the game at 2-1. He really did do it all.
If Cain can get through Stanton without giving up a dinger, that will be a major plus today. Giants talking heads keep gushing about Cain’s stuff, he keeps getting hammered after 1.5- 2X through the lineup. I was surprised at the stat yesterday that Span had gotten on based 15X in his past 29 ABs. Just didn’t seem he’d been that successful, but hey, keep it up. Maybe he takes a while to get going. Still, his D in center doesn’t seem to me to be any better than Pagan’s D when he was healthy out there…
Let’s see if Giants can, for once, tee off on a guy they don’t know. Adam Conley? His 15th MLB start. Figures to be a windy day out there at ATT — ball may be flyin’…
Brooks Robinson could not have made that play any better than Duffy just did…
Jeff Can Gundy and Mark Jackson, the idiot twins.
I always had a theory that Van Gundy quit on the Knicks because he was afraid to be in New York after 9/11…
I have a SF Giants game jacket a friend of my dad got me in 83.He knew someone who knew someone employeed by the team. Same one managers wear. How can i get rid of it??
Why would you want to?!
Have a 80’s Acid Wash Blue Giants jacket with Large Bold Bright Orange Giants lettering across the back, 3 inch SF right chest Orange, and 4 inch National League Orange Baseball with Giants printed in the middle between the baseball stitches!! Yeah old school,but was a blessing at the Stick at night games!!
Forgot to say left chest on the Acid Blue Baseball Jacket plus NL&AL pennants on the right sleeve! Yeah this bad boy is not going anywhere except my closet..
Great AB for the White Shark against a tough Lefty for the rbi.
Draymond Green is having a terrible series. Just awful. One thing that is working are his jaws. Those are always well-lubricated and ready to go.
In the face and hair, Yelich is a dead-ringer for a young Joe DiMaggio.
Does anyone have one of those Croix de Candlestick pins? My dad hated baseball, so when a miracle occurred and he actually took me to a game (maybe twice in my life), we were gone by the 7th inning. No chance to ride out an extra inning game.
I always thought that was a great promotion by the Giants, turning a perennial negative into a positive.
I got one; it’s probably in a box in my garage, stacked under a bunch of other boxes.
me too; somewhere. I didn’t earn mine, and I cannot recall how I obtained it.
Donnie learned to be a human rain-delay from working with Torre. Those Yankee/Red Sox games were brutal.
Looks like Curry fucked up his knee. The W’s are unravelling after the big regular season.
Damm Cain you can’t give Stanton a BP FB right down Broadway..
They don’t go all the way, they’ll be forever ridiculed for the 73 win season. I honestly believe that Kerr doesn’t have a clue at this point. Curry’s injury looked serious.
This is what it sounds like “When Dubs Cry”…
OK, that’s pretty good, Loo.
Wow, you’ve said this before and I’ll have to disagree. Kerr finds a way to use a lot of varied LUs and work guys in while exploiting match ups. His team can be effective in half court and transition, with Bogut in or going small. He adjusts based on what’s working and what else he can do good enough to win a title last year and keep his team focused this year–usually every one gets selfish and shot hungry in that situation.
Like it or not his hack a Howard the other night paid off and forced Bickerstaff to take him out of the game. What he wants to do his team doesn’t always make work, but clueless, no.
The team is ragged right now, sloppy and the offense isn’t flowing at all. That’s on the coach. He does a good job with his rotations, and that’s great, but the team hasn’t looked good since the end of the season, and really for a month prior to that.
Curry looks to be done, so they’re going to have to do it without him, maybe for the rest of the postseason.
since the end of the season–when they smoked Spurs twice got the record and won twice at home vs. Rockets? The “ragged” play involves maybe 1 or 2 games at most. How he handles that is one thing, how his players (the guys with the ball and playing defense) do another.
They came within a point the other night on winning playoff game on the road without the MVP of the league.
Let any other coach try that. Could Rockets contend without Harden? Clips without Paul? Cavs without LeBron? OKC without with Westbrook or Durant?
I think most of the blame (and credit for sure) for how they are playing is on players, but if you think different I understand.
That Posey at bat is why I love the sac fly. Panik hit one almost 400 ft, yet Posey hits a groundball to the IF that is inning ending GIDP. Curious decision by him not to go after Gordon at the plate imo on ball hit right at him.
And then Stanton goes yard and Giants are behind.
Well, my 12:26 on Cain popped up. Hard to keep Stanton down in 3 games, but Cain seems to throw gopher balls. Pence with the return jack to tie – yes!…
Pence!!
458ft Dead Center Bomb!!
Shit that one was impressive!!
What happened to “tie goes to the runner”?
Curry slipped on a wet spot on the floor, no word on what actually is the issue, but he’s not playing. Time for everyone else to step up…
The Reds lost to the Cubs, 9-0, the same score if the Reds had just stayed home and forfeited the game.
Cain is in the kryptonite 5th, get the Pen ready…
Sprained right knee. Anyone who’s had one of those knows they’re a lot more serious than they sound. They can take weeks to heal.
At least he may have time to rest the ankle…
I don’t know why Kerr allowed Curry to come back in this series. The Rockets blew their wad playing a good first half, especially on defense. There is no way in hell they keep that up for two straight halfs. They are already killing themselves by trying to match the Warriors behind the the point line. Problem is, they are a medicore 3 point shooting team. They have no chance of winning two in a row, with or without Curry.
Looks like the slip was a total accident where a Houston guy had also slipped before; unrelated to the ankle…
Man, Panik is good.
Man if Posey had done that last time, Panik would have scored easy.
Looks like pen game from here, Bochy vs. 2 Trips…should be interesting.
I don’t care what K&K say, Kelley blew that. That ball was hit too hard to send him with one out.
Kelly is still trying to figure out how to coach 3rd. Pagan should never have tried that, regardless of Yelich having an average arm — he wasn’t even at the bag yet and Yelich had the ball in the glove…
Those sunglasses sure looked good on top of Hus hat
Pagan with the glasses on his head, can’t see the ball for a two base screw up. Why can’t the coaches tell these guys to wear your damn glasses?…
And of course Krukow says that sunglasses wouldn’t have helped. Then what the fuck are they for?
Sometimes Kruk just can’t resist blowing past the FOS line…
The Rockets have already thrown in the towel. Their game plan is to miss threes and then not play transition defense. Curry should never have gotten on that plane to Houston.
Looks like Dubs got ticked off in the 3rd quarter and put pedal to the metal. Need to keep it going…
I don’t know if Giants management is OK with Cain for the season to basically be able to only go maybe 4 decent innings, and then it’s time for the Pen. I don’t think that is sustainable…
How many more years is Cain under contract? I am too lazy to look, plus it will just piss me off.
Next year can be the last on the full contract. They can buy-out in ’18 with 7.5 million.
Willie, I’m cool with contrary opinions. The team simply didn’t play as sharply over the last 3 weeks than they had the first part of the season. Now, whether that’s due to the increasing pressure from chasing the record, teams getting up for them or whatever, they just weren’t as sharp. More turnovers, lazy passes, lapses in offensive flow.
The good news is that they regained that cohesion as soon as Curry went out. It just goes to show that missing a few games can knock a team out of synch. Even Steph Curry can’t necessarily be plugged right back in with no lingering effects on the team. no effect. A 41 point quarter is utter domination. And I wouldn’t trade Kerr for any coach in the league. My periodic frustrations with him certainly don’t change his abilities.
Harden and Howard have vanished in the second half. Green, Thompson and Iggy have gone off on the Rockets.
Snarkk, how about this. Maybe the players can stop worrying so much about fashion and more about function. Go back to the flip down glasses, which are as perfect piece of baseball gear as there is. Ken Griffey Junior wore them his entire career and he looked pretty cool to me. I can’t think of one guy who uses them today. Pretty sad.
I’m glad you mentioned that. I was thinking after Pagan did that of the “old days” with the flip dark glasses. They weren’t pretty, but hey, they worked just fine. Now, these guys have to wear them to start, or put them on their head, which is the definition of stoopid. At least Pagan made up for it with this RBI…
I would’ve killed for a pair of those when I was a kid…
Belt with the RBI duck snort !
Baseball is a funny game. Belt can hit a couple of 418 foot outs to death valley, then gets the RBI with a doinker. Things average out…
Ray-Ban Pagan delivers!
Pence absolutely crushed that homer. Wow.
You know you look like an idiot, like Henry Wolford just did ,when you say Steph Curry did not return after injuring his ankle again, which in fact was a right knee sprain! Jesus can’t they get competent sport reporters?
Wine and cheese on a boat? People really do this?
I’ve heard they even do it on land. Cuhrazy.
On Twitter, I’ve got a Buckeye fan tweeting superstitious tho’ efficacious good luck.
um, not so much. GIDP.
Can I take back my 3:08?
egads; even a GIDP to anyone else but the pitcher and we might get a run
Seriously, the Giants making it very frustrating when they have men on base…
Which is pretty much every inning.
That was fun.
I always say if you can’t score with the bases loaded and no one out, you simply do not deserve to win.
What if you can’t even load the bases?…
well, then it’s just slightly less torturous but same result.
I’m thinking Casilla needs to hold the Marlins to zero here to keep his closer job…
Hey, he comes through, despite muffing a grounder he should have fielded. Nice job, he lives to close again…
About time for a Posey dinger…
Ramos with 32 saves last year .. He is good .. Chips are down but we got our blue chips, Posey, Pence .. We need those guys to step up, especially Posey, he ain’t showed much so, far this year.
SF hitters flat flat flat…flat as Olive Oyl’s chest. Use whatever analogy you want.
Dammit, they really needed a sweep.
They really did.
I didn’t get to see much of this one .. Got the feeling i didn’t miss much .. Pawlie seems to have said it all .. Yet, wondering if this was another winnable one that we let slip away? Damn, there has been a lot of those so far!
2 wins outta 3 is fine at home. It’s the getting swept by Dbacks that make this loss hurt more. You simply can’t get swept in a series at home, especially a 4 gamer. I’m still down on Cain, the guy has nothing past the 4th inning. That can’t continue all season. Cain has become the new Zito with an albatross contract. If he were a kid trying to hang on from the minors, he’d be close to being handed a ticket to Sac after his 4 starts. Pagan blew that fly ball, but hell, Cain gave up 9 or 10 hits. That sucks. That ball he threw Stanton for an HR was a cupcake. As expected, the post-game wrap is wrapping Cain up like he did fine. Bulldust…
I’m going to err on the side of patience with Cain. As I’ve said before, he is coming back from a long lay off but if anyone can over come this tribulation it is Cain. It is not helping that he is getting no offensive support of any consequence. In each of his previous starts, a couple of timely hits, some focused clutch at bats and we could have easily given Cain a decent 2 or 3 run cushion. Looks like it was the same thing today. Dating back to last year, how many times have we seen this habitual zero runs produced from one out , or less, bases loaded situations?
I’ve no patience with Cain. The guy has been a zero for going on 3 seasons. He needs to start getting it done and earn his $20 million. Or get the hell outta the way for a minor league arm to take his place…
Maybe its time to bring up Blackburn as the #5 starter. He has been doing excellently well for Sactown. If Cain is consistently decent for 4, why not Petit’s old role as longman. Granted, that would make for an expensive long-reliever, but perhaps he could do that around twice per week with about the same mileage on the arm as a single start over that time.
Finally appreciating the side benefits of jet lag, e.g., missed most of this fiasco this afternoon napping.
welcome to Amerika, once again, honorable-san
TY . . . Is Trump president?
Kuiper again eating and smacking his lips thru the post game wrap. Anybody have the balls to tell him that’s totally bogus and unprofessional?…
so btichin’
Who’s the dude anchoring the post game with the female? Probably a player, but no idea who . . . Anywho, if CSN can’t afford a make-up person, maybe they can afford to give this guy a 50 cent comb.
If any one is interested .. I looked back at my journal/log and count 8 ‘shoulda/coulda’ games so far. That number is offset by 2 games that we won but probably should have lost. 15-5 would have us in possession of the beat record in MLB. Instead 9-11’puts us near the bottom .. The Reds have a better record!
Also looked back at how we went about it in 2014 .. If you remember, we crushed it early on .. April & May we were spectacular. June was a terrible swoon, July not much better … we evened out in August and managed to play close to .500 ball. We had very good early September but had to hang on again by the end of that month .. Managed just enough momentum to get us into the post season and .. well, you know the rest.
It’s possible we have the worst thirdbase coach in MLB.
Maybe we can pick one up at the trade deadline…
Screw-ups by Pagan and Kelly today, 2 games screwed up by Tomlinson, 2 blown saves by Casilla, the Ghost of Matt Cain. And the regular season is now a little over 10% done.
Can we hit the re-start button? 🙂
potd
Astros fans might disagree. Their third base coach (Gary Pettis) has made some terrible calls this year. Not that he has anything to do with their early season sucktitude, but it certianly hasn’t helped.
Pettis was considered one of the best defensive outfielders in the game for a time.
Guess it doesn’t help…
First game I’ve seen in awhile was last night, I like triples. I missed the losing streak, and haven’t read the news here so I’m out of the loop, but goooo Giants.
I’ve accosted many (if not all) fans wearing SF gear here, most of the ones I’ve talked to might as well be Red Sox fans.
Chi – Rhiannon Giddens probably did the closest thing to a perfect set that I’ve seen in many years. She had her solo touring band plus the guys from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, they fucking killed it, dude.
I haven’t had time to read the posts of the last week or two (I’m sure I’ve missed some classics), but I’ll try to catch up later. Cheers y’all.
I saw the C.C. Drops in concert at a festival. They were awesome.
LJ same things that bug you bother me too, esp turnovers. I think grind got to them end of season but that W in SA was great. I think Kerr creates situation where everyone can thrive and his players keep it together. NBA is so much a players league I can’t fault him for too much. I’d blow up at Green sometimes if I were on bench.
I honestly don’t know how anyone could coach guys like Harden and Howard, who fold up like old cardtables.
RH are batting now over .300 vs. Osich. I thought he was type of guy who could go solid inning regardless of LH or RH. I hope he can turn it around. Law I could see getting more action.
Yeah even during game K and K were lauding Cain and I thought that was way wrong. After early going there were constantly runners on. Peavy handled both Gordon and Stanton last night and both those guys did Cain in today.
Bum vs. Pads tomorrow. I’ll be out of town for a few. Good luck to Zum at game this week
Willie, I finally started reading the Billy Martin biography. I had been reading a very long novel by Neal Stephenson.
Well. I won’t spoil the ending for you. Let’s just say it wasn’t the best Christmas…
😂
I saw some Oakland games during the Billy Ball period. No one could angrily kick dirt on homeplate as well as him.
Loo, Martin’s death is told on the first page of the book. The author starts with it. At Christmas-time, you are accurate!
12/25/89.
The year of the earthquake Series.
And another Niner championship.
Born and raised in the hard-scrabble neighborhoods of West Berkeley during the Depression.