Nowhere To Go
Giants are in a pretty tough situation in terms of available moves right now. Nobody wants our withered, aged core so unless Z gets extremely creative those guys are going to be laying around and going nowhere. Teams like the Indians can do that with players who are coveted like Kluber and now Lindor who is getting aggressively dangled.
Conversely, nobody is going to trade for any of our young studs at this time of year. That happens at the trade deadline, not the dead of winter. I suppose Z could pull off another *Cozart* deal but how many of those are realistically on the table?
This is looking more and more like another dumpster dive off season.
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Anyone got a soot suit I can borrow for my dumpster dives?
good one! BTW, where is XootSuit? Was that his handle?
Not sure. I believe the handle was simply xoot.
i think way back on the splash it was XootSuit
He was originally XootSuit. He seems to take extended breaks (like James) but eventually comes back.
I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure he couldn’t stand Twin…
Yeah, they got intense with each other.
If you have/had been here around (or the Splash) for any period of time while Twin was with us, I think everyone tangled with Twin at one time or another.
Might as well get started early.
This guy was insanely good. Never saw him though.
Amazing talent. I listened to a lot of his stuff in my high school years (early 70s…yeah, I’m an old fucker). Was blessed to see him in SF at I believe the Old Waldorf back in the early 80s (shortly after I got off of active duty with the Air Force, which was 1981). Great guitarist. Awesome showman. RIP, Rory.
Wow. Cool. Saw Roy Buchanan at a tiny club in SF.Great stuff.
I also saw John Prine at the Old Waldorf around that same timeframe (early 80s). We had a table right at the front of the stage. Great show…Prine is an American icon.
Cool. Saw Adrian Belew there, same deal. Table at the front. Killer stuff.
And the latest from the dumpster diving rumor mill…
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/mlb-rumors-giants-interested-outfielder-steven-souza-jr-free-agency
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/mlb-rumors-free-agent-nicholas-castellanos-values-giants-culture
Yeah Rory Gallagher was a supremely talented guitarist, I wore a groove out in his Rory Gallagher 1974 tour album..Million Miles Away, Tattooed Lady, great stuff! Loved listening to him and Alvin Lee(Ten Years After) both fantastic guitarist 🎸
Oh yeah…I tripped many a night away listening to Ten Years After’s Cricklewood Green and Watt albums. Definitely another one of the great guitarists of our time.
Scott Boras só far his Christmas Stocking is at 49.3 million dollars on commissions 5% with his contract signings of Cole,Strasburgh,Rendon& Moose and he still has a few more nuggets to clean up with like Costellanos. Yeah easily his biggest Christmas ever as Mr.Super Agent..
I wonder who his very first client was…
I know this, but I wont say . . . Not certain if this is a contest. Anyway, Scott Boras is a fascinating guy. Grew up in Elk Grove (arm pit of Sacramento) to a dairy farmer. Was a great college baseball player and even played in the minor league system of the MLB Cards and I think, the Cubs.
iirc his first client was a minor league teammate.
Mike Morse said yesterday in a radio interview with KNBR that the Giants in 2017 (SabEvans era) had offered Bum a paltry extension offer, and he felt dissed, and that could certainly have been a reason why he had no interest in re-signing with the giants…
Same thing with the new regime offering Bum 4/70..
Bum had no intentions of coming back with all the changes going down in the organization …
Christianity Today, a mainstream publication in the Evangelical world, has called for Drumpf’s removal. This is actually a fairly big deal. Too little, too late IMO. So called Christians are already bashing the magazine for taking an actual Christian position…
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html
That was powerful, especially considering the source. As you indicated, a day late, a dollar short. Regardless, perhaps there’s a chance where other evangelicals will “see the light” and bear witness to this immoral liar. Thanks for sharing Tom.
It’s never too late to see the light. we’re still close to a year out.
Jim Wallis, one of the nation’s most prominent liberal evangelical leaders, called the op-ed’s stance a “huge, watershed event,” adding that the magazine is arguably the leading evangelical magazine in the nation.
“What CT is saying in their editorial is removing Donald Trump from office is now a matter of faith, not politics, and I agree,” Wallis told CNN. Wallis, founder of Sojourners magazine, says evangelicals made a “Faustian” bargain with Trump — appoint the federal judges we want and we will look the other way.
“They have made the Faustian bargain that no matter what he does, it’s all acceptable because he gives them the judges he wants,” says Wallis, author of “Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus.”
Don’t get me started on the stacking of the SCOTUS…and McConnell the Turtle blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination to the SCOTUS. That dickwad (McConnell) is as big a threat to our democracy as trump is.
He and Ryan were worse. They blocked 180 jobs bills that would have jump-started the economy back in 2010 when we were climbing out of the global economic meltdown.
Mitch is still blocking any and all legislation put forth by the Dem congress.
Would the Trump haters be happy if he was assassinated?
Nah, a nice stretch in Sing Sing for NY tax fraud will do just fine…
So, during the off-season, when you get tired of looking out the window and waiting for spring, you look at shit like this…
Top five players for each MLB club…
https://newarena.com/mlb/the-top-5-players-all-time-for-every-mlb-franchise/24/?amxt=ref_2_inview_vat
Meanwhile, back at the window…
In yet another attempt to level the playing field for the rest of the league, the Yankees signed Kratz! again.
Lulz Bozo a Krispy Kratz scoop well done sir!
Maybe they will bat him between Judge&Stanton!
Krispy Kratz might be nickname of the year.
Just something about it…
Kat, I agree with Loo, thats a good one.
Cricklewood Green is such a good album. Saw Alvin Lee at the Keystone PA 3 times. Many a JGB show as well. Neil Young, Michael Schenker. Loved that place.