Dicky Does It
Honestly, I had no idea who Alex Dickerson was. He’s played in the big leagues too, I usually have a pretty good recollection of everyone if they’ve played a recent full season and he played a halfway decent half a season with the Padres in 2016. In one game he did more than Duggar has ever done in his career. That’s quite the indictment of Duggar. He and Pillar were easy co-players of the game….
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My new favorite Giant is Yaz.
I’m kind of impressed…
he’s been much better than I thought and an outfield of him, Pillar and someone who can hit 30 bombs would be rad.
https://aroundthefoghorn.com/2019/05/06/san-francisco-giants-conner-menez-rising-prospect/
Just watching the video clip, does not look like he has electric stuff. 92-94 mph fastball may not be starter material but could be a bullpen arm next season.
Hey, this season is the turnstile season, so if he’s more than holding his own at AAA, bring this dude up and see what he can do. More Smardzxxx dreck is the alternative?…
Dicky…Dicker. Seems like Boch could go either ways on the nickname there.
I’ve been impressed with Yaz too. Something happen to Sandoval last night or just a regular sub?
Took one in the ribs, but it was more jersey then meat.Think it was the Giants, and he has said it’s more difficult to swing RH with the pinkie so when D-backs went with a lefty they pulled him for Longo..
Yeah I hope Dickerson can keep it going for awhile, and not turn into Jarret Parker for a day..
he’s 29. This guy sucks. Nice game last night, tho
Bingo…
All are outfielders suck so what’s the point?
Dickerson lost out on 2 straight years with Back Surgery&TJ so I admire his determination to get back and hopefully contribute, not like the 63 other outfielders the Giants have run out their in LF since Barry retired..
I’m not saying any other outfielders should be getting his innings right now. Just that he sucks. Like all the rest of our outfielders in AAA since 1980
I’d like to see every damn OFer the Giants have in the system, AA and above, up here this season. Why not? They’re saving them for trade bait? Everybody knows SF’s farm system is in shambles. Duggar is the best they’ve got? All glove, no hit. At least Lil Yaz has some pop, and he can field, and he’s got some speed…
Lil Yaz….I like it!
Hilarious hearing the Giants chanting DiCK DICK DICK in the dugout after his triple but that ball looked like a cue ball going the other way. Chapman for the A’s hit one the other way today…the way the ball is jumping is ridiculous. Dont remember too many balls going put the other way back at the old Stick..
more evidence that Bum isn’t worth as much as we’d hoped.
The Yankees have a PR fine-line to walk with their fans. If the team passes on Bum and then doesn’t win the World Series or even make it there, they’re going to have to do some serious PR work.
i’ll be surprised if Frazier isn’t traded. I know Rosenthal has probably talked to people in their org but he’s probably their best trade piece and frankly that offense doesn’t need him.
1. Joe Panik (L) 2B
2. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B
5. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
6. Kevin Pillar (R) CF
7. Alex Dickerson (L) LF
8. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
9. Tyler Beede (R) P
Posey hasn’t been a 3-hole hitter for a few years now, but hey, Bochy’s gotta be Bochy.
Longo sitting a second straight day?
At least Posey is playing.
No chance, but I’d like to see an in-depth article by one of these beat writers about what is wrong with Posey. Hip? Ankle? Just whole body fried already at barely age 32? Is this guy doing anything for the Giants, really, that some C making 1/4 as much could give? Bart can’t get here fast enough. I’ll take Vogt easily right now as a hitter over Posey. Bart and Garcia going forward as the C corps would be fine with me…
Dodgers have 16 homegrown players on their roster, the Giants only 8!! This is what Zman needs to change going forward finding the homegrown talent..
Doghairs have been winning the division for 5 straight years, heading for 6, so they’re drafting consistently in the bottom parts of the rounds. Yet, their system is ranked as one of the top with talent, and Giants farm is dogmeat. That is the main indictment on the the SabEvans brain trust after the 2012 Series. They drafted a bunch of stiffs, constantly…
6 straight, going for 7.
Yep for sure Snarkk!
When the draft happened Sabes/Booby were hanging by a pool getting appetizers and drinks listening to “Take this job and shove it”
I got us 3 in 5 I’m checking out..
Bay Area sports radio playing musical chairs.
Radnich out at KNBR.
Papa moves from 95.7 to KNBR, now that he’s the Niner play by play…
It’s amazing to me how long Radnich lasted. I never got his schtick. I never saw the appeal of his radio persona.
Once KRON lost their national newscast , I don’t think they gave a shit if Gary hung around for radio.Is Pam Moore still around? Her and Gary had a long run together..
Radnich was the worst. I first met him back in 1980, he was MC’ing the East West Shrine luncheon. I won an autographed football of all the players, he handed it to me. Even as a young Flavor I picked up on his dooshness that day. Dude knows literally nothing about sports, he just shticks everything. Good riddance.
Belt – 1000th game as a Giant tonight…
Loo, just a chuckle and shout-out to 2 recent gems: A-Dick and Carl’s Jr. Funny stuff and very logical as well. 🙂
Mets new pitching coach Phil Regan is 82 years old !!Some guy on Twitter asked him :Is this the first time you will be on the field in color?🤣😂
I saw a note saying he pitched to Ted Williams in his career.
That is pretty awesome that he is still active and got that gig.
TV
Brynes is such a tool. All his videos are like this.
Direct TV channel 696 is having technical difficulties. I can’t get the Giants game right now.
Channel 31 in the Central Valley is showing the River Cats game tonight, so that’s kind of something.
Aramis Garcia just yanked an HR into the leftfield bleachers.
Suarez is pitching tonight.
Meanwhile, Beede gave up 3 runs in the 1st, including a steal of home.
Radnich had an obsession with prostitutes, which he preferred to call hookers. Any celebrity that spent a lot of money on prostitutes was a big deal to Radnich.
Radnich liked to ask callers what kind of car they were driving.
He came across as a shallow schmuck. I rarely listened to much of it.
They brought in Larry Krueger, who has his own issues, as a side-kick to try to save the show. I wonder what Krueger’s status is.
though I can’t stand Radnich that show is extremely highly rated
Beede with a double walk first inning, his patented move.
Dickerson now has his cycle.
The dugout chanting DICK DICK DICK, love it!
Cmon over to channel 745 Zum, the water’s fine……
That wipe-out of Buster back in 2011 probably did more to shorten his career (or at least effectiveness) than anything else. That was just horrific. He was *lucky* it happened while he was still young, the body will still heal at that age; if it had happened within the past couple of years, he’d probably be done. But even being young (and he did return to effectiveness for a few years), not sure he was ever going to physically (and maybe also mentally) return to the high level of promise everyone had for him. Add the recent hip surgery, and yeah… it’s possible he’s pretty much done as a productive hitter.
Dickerson is every bit the prospect Yaz is—-which is to say not much of one.
I love Yaz too though—glad he is here.
Zumie (and everybody): The Giants are the free game on MLB-TV…
Freaking shift cost Lil Yaz a RBI..
i dig the all black shoes Beede favors…
Scoring a game doesn’t tell the story it used to with all these wacky defensive alignments…
Thanks, guys, but I actually got sort of hooked into this River Cats game. Bill Laskey is the color analyst and he’s pretty interesting. Whenever Krukow retires, Lasky might be the surprise replacement.
interesting, because his KNBR show with Vida Blue is the worst show of the week.
He just goofs around with Vida. Yeah, it’s not much of a show.
But it would be like judging Kuiper from just the postgame wrap.
I was out of my mind from Laskey & Hammaker in 1982. Thought we were gonna have a big 2 R/L combo at the top of the rotation for years. Felt the same way about The Count & Falcone in 1975…
man you and me are in lockstep on both of these “where are they now” calls.
Lasky is not the rah-rah guy Krukow is; that’s an interesting difference.
this dude nailed Radnich cold. He did this for 25 years on KNBR
Yeah, Radnich would get belligerent because the fans knew way more about sports than he did.
Radnich clearly did little or no homework for his show.
…reminds me of Kuiper. Doesn’t take the job seriously and relies on schtick.
Kuiper is way better on radio. His heart is not fully into the TV gig. His love for Krukow makes the TV gig OK for him, but he’s way more into radio, and getting to paint the whole word-picture. I’d love for a reporter to ask him about that.
You’ve pointed that out before. He’s still not my cup of tea on radio, but agree he is better without Kruk around.
Dicky doubles!
wow somebody didn’t get the scouting report on Dickerson.
Phil Regan was 14-1 for the Dogpile in 1966 with a ERA of 1.62 in relief at age 29.That’s one hell of a season.Man the guy was born 4 years before Pearl Harbor, and now he’s a pitching coach! I gotta give him his props for presevrance..
I will be curious though, how long it will take him to get to the pitching mound, isn’t their a time clock?
Dodgers got him for Dick Tracewski…
he’s my dad’s age
He’s older than Marichal & Perry…
There was some funny shit on Twitter the other day talking about his age. One comment said something like he onced tagged out Pontius Pilate in a rundown…
He moves pretty well and seems to have a good vibe about him. He worked with several Mets pitchers in the lower minors, so he knows these guys. (I watch a fair amount of Mets games)
Need SanDog to figure out who Dickerson looks like.
Can’t quite place it…
Flav??? 😁
Dickerson is like Roy Hobbs, when Robert Duvall says “where ever you pitch him he hits it” 🔥🔥🔥
I’d definitely like to hear Laskey do a game. On his show it’s painfully obvious that he covers for an absolutely clueless Vida…
Leonys Martin worth picking up??? Cant see how it hurts…
no, he sucks. Shit, I’m getting won over with Dick right now.
Yes and we have a ton of suck in the org…
I’d rather have Leotis Martin who beat Sonny Liston…
At the top of our lineup Panik/Yaz/Posey 1-7. Down “below” Pillar/Dick/Craw are 6 for 6. Last year I listened to Vida explain for a good 10 minutes why *the best hitters are in the top 4 spots in your line up*> You wouldn’t think it would take him that long, but it did. And then Laskey pulled out the newspaper and started reading the lineups from the day before, he read off at least the top 4 of ten different mlb line ups, and was like “Boy Vida, you’re right!” It was the dumbest radio I think I’ve ever heard in my life and I’ll never forget it.
To me Dickerson looks like Dustin Pedoria..
Beede not getting lot of help tonight.
Right on cue, Willie.
Kuiper incorrectly referring to the runner who scored as the “back runner”…
Beede’s just can’t handle adversity, he will be one of are torture type pitchers in every start.The good the bad& the ugly..
Wait’ll his wife loses her looks…
wow another screw up on the IF.
Hey SD–what do you think of Alonso? Guy has 26 bombs, like 1 every 3 games he plays. wow
The dude is impressive. Seems like a great teammate too. And if you haven’t heard much about Jeff McNeil, you will before long. Incredible bat control. Ron Darling compared him to Tony Gwynn today and I agree that is a legit comp.
mm thx. McNeil seemed to hurt Giants every time they play, like the Anderson kid from Marlins.
Somewhat charming little story on MLB about Wilkin Castilla, who just went 10 years between major-league at-bats and had game-winning hit. “Castillo hadn’t played a Major League game since sustaining a season-ending torn right labrum in that 2009 contest — a 10-8 loss for Castillo’s Reds against the White Sox. Coupled with his RBI single in that contest, Castillo’s RBI double on Saturday made him the first player in MLB history with an RBI streak spanning more than 10 years”. Keep on keepin’ on…
Saw that too—good for him.
In that case, Satchel Paige had scoreless pitching streak of 12 years…
When I was in Little League, I distinctly remember the coach teaching us on those slow rollers down the baseline to swipe the ball foul without trying to pick it up once it went foul. He made a huge deal about it.
In all my years watching baseball, I’ve seen a big leaguer do that exactly one time– and it was a Giant.
Care to guess who it was? Flavor will send you a gift card if you nail it in the next 3 minutes.
Seriously, I will mail out a cool baseball card to anyone who gets this by 9:00. Maybe even the card of this guy if I have one.
Ed Goodson?
No, but that is a quality guess and thank you so much for playing. Feel free to keep launching names.
Bill Mueller..?
Tom O’Malley?
Bill Madlock.
Zum…..don’t be afraid to jump in with the crickets GIF if necessary!
Dave McKay coaching 1b for AZ? Played 2b for A’s 40 yrs ago right?
No on Mueller. This guy was playing 1B on this day.
Would have been late 70’s, possibly early 80’s
Montanez?
Negative, but man I loved me some Willie Montanez.
Right hand batter and thrower…
Carreon?
Jack Clark playing firstbase?
No O’Malley, Madlock, or Carreon, but you guys are all rock stars…..
The good news Beede can’t get the loss bad news can’t get the win either..
No on Jack Clark, but you’re in the right era for sure.
This might give it away, but I remember this guy hitting a dramatic grand slam (maybe even a walk -off) when I was listening to a game in my backyard as a kid.
Cabell with that hint…
I give a positive review for the TV show Stranger Things. Very well-done show, and it’s good to see Winona Ryder get a good comeback role.
Mike Ivie?
Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!!
Well done Kat! Mike Freaking Ivie brushed the ball totally into foul territory just like Coach Brooks taught us!
Am I just completely shot?
What is the point of brushing the ball into foul territory?
Once you touch it, it’s fair…
I think the key words are “once it went foul”, not while still in fair territory. I’m guessing once you touch it in foul ground, it’s a dead ball… not sure though
I may have typed it wrong, but the technique is to brush it foul once it goes foul to make sure it stays foul. And I think the logic was that if you tried to totally pick it up, you might lose control of it and drop it back into fair territory.
Unless it was already in foul territory and he just made sure it stayed foul.
Did I figure it out?
Ok, now I can sleep…
YES! You got it man. I’m giving you the same level of enthusiasm that John gives George at the end of Hey Bulldog.
Zumie–that is George that John is goofing with at the end of that fine tune—-correct?
YES!
yeah the salami was the giveaway. ha nice AK!
Was it a walk-off? I think it was. Against the Dodgers, I know that.
may 8 78, off Sutton. Nah not walk off but Giants got comeback W.
I think on the Lasky/Vida show, Lasky tries to be the straight man for Vida’s schtick.
I give a positive review for the Triple Bonus Jack from Jack in the Box. I’ve always preferred the Bonus Jack to the Jumbo Jack and was very bitter when it was eliminated from the menu years ago. Thankfully, Jack brings it back from time to time. Love the special sauce.
This is a Carl’s Jr. blog now.
A pinch Grand Slam, no less. And of course LeMaster made 2 errors:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN197805280.shtml
Lee Oakland Lacy leadng off and playing 2b for LA, Dusty in there too. In front of 56 thou on Sunday, must have been very cool.
Went to see Pirates when lacy was there one afternoon early ’80s. On way out walking down toward parking lot this gal noticed I had 3 ring Pirates hat on and said to me and my buddy she was his sister Veronica I think.
Billy North PH for LA too, always liked that guy. One year he went off in SBs for the A’s who stole like 200 bags that year. Despite all the other a-holes, LA did always have some cool players. Reggie Smith could really hit.
I grieve over the loss of pretzel bun burgers.
Who doesn’t?
Togo’s has a pretzel bun ham sandwich, but it’s just not the same.
When we’d go over to Sacarmento in high school, a big highlight was going to Togo’s on Arden? for a hot pastrami.
I actually had one in Woodland not long ago, but it didn’t seem as good as the ones back in the day from Sac-town.
Oh, I had that wrong. It’s pastrami on a pretzel roll.
Garcia was playing outfield for the River Cats tonight, which is kind of interesting.
If you’re his mother, maybe…
I feel a Pablo XBH this inning…
An out, but he did sting that ball.
Zum plz break off some Beatles knowledge on my 9:27.
I think you mean John and Paul at the end of the song.
This is some great previously unreleased video:
Damnit! That doesn’t fit my “I find nothing likable about Paul” narrative that I have carefully cultivated for decades now!
Cool vid–thanks
Yeah- rare footage of the Beatles at work in the studio.
Kruk needs to calm down about Melon’s nice 5 foot throw…
Dawg thx for that box, tremendous. Terry Whitfield with 4 hits, Clark the Count mike sadek. Randy Moffitt (whatshernames brother right?) with 3 shutout innings for the W. Nothing like LA/SF game at Stick.
You know A’s are drawing 15 thou a game at the O, even when teams like Stros are in. They are everything Giants are not–good solid young players/lack of old fart high priced vets, plenty of guys who can hit bombs, plus some diversity and good mgr. and they can’t draw anyone to watch them play.
Billie Jean King ..Randy Moffitt’s sister I believe?