Sunday Loose Ends
Two Flap HOF birthdays today: Unca Chuck and Chi. Happy birthday, boys!
Game last night was unfortunate as we wasted a deGrom-esque performance by Gausman.
Logan Webb tries to recapture the rapture of spring training.
Stix, if you can read this, good luck. Wish I lived closer to help you with the heavy lifting.
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Ha happy b-days to Charlie and Chuck.
fun fact from Athletic: Tatis Jr. is first player with consecutive multi HR games as a visitor at Dodger Stadium since Barry Bonds in 2002.
I’m just glad his injury wasn’t long term. Before his 2-homer game the other night, I didn’t even realize he was back in the lineup. He’s fun to watch and you always want to face and try to beat the other team’s best players. One of these decades the Giants might get lucky and develop a player with his level of talent. Lately it’s been one average guy after another.
What’s the odds?
A double shot of Chuck’s Birthday’s today!
Happy Birthday Charlie&Chuck!🎉🎉beers 🍺🍺🕺🕺
Here ya go Chuck’s, I think you both like these jokers, right? Happy birthday. Plus they mention Candlestick Park at the end.
No, not much of a Beatles fan. Like Led Zepplin I got over them a long time ago. The Candlestick ref is spot-on tho!
Whoa Nelly! Hold the press! While I appreciate the BD sentiments, today is not my BD (June 8).
With that outta the way, wishing you a very happy birthday, Charlie! Hoping your next trip around old sol is the best yet.
What’s the opposite of a belated birthday wish? lol
Dude should be 3-0 at the worst if not 4-0.
Gausman? Yeah. When he’s throwing that changeup for strikes, he’s very tough. GET SOME OFFENSE, ZAIDI!
HBD, dudes.
The Giants really need to get their offense shored up and fast. Yaz has been terrible so far. Two months into the season and he has yet to get on a hot streak, but it’s not just him obviously. Gausman was brilliant last night and all for naught. I hate it when teams waste good pitching performances.
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
I was gonna say, Chuck, we couldn’t have gone this far without figuring out it was both our birthdays today. But, fuck it, happy early birthday! Donuts for all!!
When you blow out your candles, make your birthday wish that the 49ers draft the right QB. Make or break time for Shanny, IMO.
Make or break for Lynch as well. He’s been fairly hit or miss with the draft so far. Solly Thomas and Reuben Foster were garing fuckups. Bosa was a no-brainer, but his injury history may come back to haunt the team.
This draft? It won’t kill the team, but it will hobble it if the QB doesn’t pan out. They have a very well-built team, and replacing a shitty drafted QB would cause them to hit the FA market and pray, but the draft capital is hard to replace.
HB Chuck(s)
yes I read it wrong on FB. It was another friend named Charlie. But Chi, what the fuck ever, Happy Birthday dawg!
LOL. Appreciate you thinking of me brother!
Happy birthday Unca, hoping the Giants make it a great one with a W.
Let”s win this fucking series…
1. Austin Slater (R) CF
2. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
3. Darin Ruf (R) LF
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Wilmer Flores (R) 3B
6. Tommy La Stella (L) 2B
7. Curt Casali (R) C
8. Mauricio Dubon (R) SS
9. Logan Webb (R) P
Giants LU..The outfielders 1-2-3
Slater CF
Yaz RF
Ruf LF
Belt 1B
Flores 3B
LaStella 2B
Casali C
Dubon SS
Webb P
With Casali, we only gotta push one run across, right?
Yep…Mr Shutout…
HB, UC, welcome to the 60s, the greatest decade.
Unc does share b-day with Ella Fitzgerald who would have been 103 today.
And among the living Al Pacino turned 81
so lemme get this straight, I posted a video clip of the Beatles, a band I loath, and Chuck doesn’t care for them and it’s not Chi’s bday? Shit. Huge fuck up on my part. Honestly i have no idea how The Beatles or the Eagles have a single fan between the 2 bands
“In their initial incarnation as cheerful, wisecracking moptops, the Fab Four revolutionised the sound, style, and attitude of popular music and opened rock and roll’s doors to a tidal wave of British rock acts. Their initial impact would have been enough to establish the Beatles as one of their era’s most influential cultural forces, but they didn’t stop there. Although their initial style was a highly original, irresistibly catchy synthesis of early American rock and roll and R&B, the Beatles spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock’s stylistic frontiers, consistently staking out new musical territory on each release. The band’s increasingly sophisticated experimentation encompassed a variety of genres, including folk-rock, country, psychedelia, and baroque pop, without sacrificing the effortless mass appeal of their early work.”
–Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever by Scott Schinder and Andy Schwart
Zumiee do we stand in lockstep on our feelings about The Eagles? Terrible band right?
I used to not like the Eagles much, but now I do after watching concert footage from their Hotel California tour on YouTube. They were hitting on all cylinders on that tour, and a case could be made that, for about a year, they were the best band in the world. Those live concerts, with Felder and Walsh playing terrific guitar together, are very good, in my opinion.
It can be hard to find footage of that Eagles 1977 tour on YouTube. The Eagles are very tight about YouTube and have stuff taken down constantly.
Hotel California, no other song that hideous has featured such a good guitar solo.
It’s fun watching as Felder and Walsh play together on that song on the ‘77 footage.
Hideous song, really?
I’m not one to usually write off a band solely because they reveal themselves to be dickheads through what their songs express, but it was fashionable to hate them before I was old enough to listen closely, so I stuck with it.
I do love the Beatles!
As members of a band, the Eagles did set new levels of dysfunction. They weren’t particularly friends with each other, which led to some changes in the band’s lineup over the years.
They can’t be that terrible if the Eagles are the #1 best Selling American band of alltime..
The Eagles are seen as highly uncool, but that’s alright. I never paid all that much attention to cool/uncool status.
A lot of stuff from the ‘70s gets hammered now. Frampton, Foghat, the BeeGees, etc. Those records hold up, IMO.
Foghat and the Bee Gees are cool, man! You need to update your cool/uncool meter.
lulz!
Look at Slater the stealing machine!
Flores can hit, but, man, is he bad on defense.
That’s for sure Zumie.He took to much time thinking Duvall can’t run and probably cause of his error the other day, then rags it over their again.His arm is just not strong enough for 3rd..
I love both the Beatles and the Eagles and still think they are great.
I agree.
Beatles and Eagles both played gutless pop. A radical historicist might call it reactionary suburban bullshit that’s a lot of fun to sing along to. Of course, The Dude’s hatred of the fucking Eagles sparks one of the funniest scenes in modern cinema.
Yeah yeah yeah
Squeeze squeeze, baby!
Spinning his Webb in the gap….
wow, that was nice.
Wow Look at Webb with a ringing triple!! 2 RBI’s
curse of pitching coach mound visit strikes again. giants first hit by pitcher all season was no doubt rocket.
That’s gotta make a pitcher feel pretty good when he can better his own game.
Hasn’t rained at all in south bay. Now Giants gotta hope they can get the game in.
Does that triple move Webb past Disco as the new PH batters among pitchers?
My sons at the game. He says Flores has been taken out
Ten minutes later Kruk and kuip notice. So why? Asswipes.
This is ridiculous I’m 23 miles south of the ballpark and it’s not even misting.Without any rain wtf are they going to make this a 5 hour game.
“Beatles and Eagles both played gutless pop. A radical historicist might call it reactionary”
I’m not really sure what any of that means, but I’m guessing you’re probably not a musician. Anybody that’s ever tried writing songs knows how good those bands are.
That sounds like nonsense to me. If you’re impressed, good for you. Many people disagree with me. 74 million did last November. And maybe all those hours i spent in the cello lessons etc just didn’t teach me to appreciate pop.
Cello is very cool. A remarkable instrument. It has the ability to move people very deeply with its tones. The Beatles used cello sometimes, as a matter of fact.
A very nice string quartet arrangement used on this one.
Check out Martha Redbone’s adaptation of Wm Blake’s I Heard an Angel Singing. I’d be interested in your opinion. I can’t believe in the only person who likes it. Sorry for the bullshit.
Webb is kind of relying on Houdini magic and at’em balls, but whatever works.
Is it time to start whispering about Casali?
He’s the whisperer.
I remember TF was not a believer in catcher’s ERA. He ridiculed it pretty much as a fluke.
Raining pretty hard at GGF racetrack right now.
Slusser said on twitter that doesn’t appear Cueto is gonna be ready to take his next turn, so Webb likely to stay in there if he can survive today.
Bottom of the 5th, must be ground crew time again..
“Check out Martha Redbone’s adaptation of Wm Blake’s I Heard an Angel Singing.”
Very beautiful and moving. I have to admit I hadn’t heard her recordings before. I wonder if she’s ever performed at Hardly Strictly. I haven’t been there in a few years, and of course it wasn’t held last year, other than online remotely.
Never heard her live. Beautiful voice. The cello viscerally mourns the conflict of the angel and the devil in the poem. Imo. But as I said Im biased toward music with guts.
Well, we would just be disagreeing on what “guts” means in music. That’s where it gets real subjective. What moves people emotionally. To me, the most gutless music around these days is “new country.” It just sounds incredibly superficial to me, but I know that there are people moved by it, so go figure.
To me, Lennon’s voice is very gutsy. A lot of raw emotion.
I love good country. I despise the so called country crap I hear on commercial radio. So we probably don’t disagree. And I’m actually not closed minded. Eg, I was stunned to read that Greil Marcus piece on pop music James posted. Had the great GM gone soft? Or was my view of pop stupid? Hmmmm. Both possibilities make some sense.
On Lennon, I agree. Much of his post Bs stuff was good, too. (W Class Hero?)
Yeah, I love that first solo album especially. I bought it at a local used record store. That store seemed like a gold mine to me. Of course it eventually folded like a lot of record stores in the digital era.
Slater came into game with K rate of 33%, one of higher ones on team. Thought he would be better hitter than what he is showing so far.
He gets ripped off by the umps sometimes, but those pitches are too close to take with two strikes.
Zum, couple years ago gifted my sister CD by Hot Club of San Francisco of Beatles music. titled John Paul George Django. She loved it…she owns all the old LPs 3 of us had as kids.
It turns out YouTube has some of the album. I just listened to “Michelle.” Very nice!
That Martha Redbone song is fantastic. Always like hearing good new music. I have found that arguing whether music is good or bad is kinda like arguing over Religion and politics. Real subjective.
Yaz seems to be heating up. That would be very welcome news.
Bum no hitting Braves through 6, 0 BBs 6 Ks. One error earlier, erased on DP, Braves only baserunner. Not their scrubini lineup either–Acuna Freeman Ozuna Albies d’Arnaud yada yada.
Thanks for the Martha Redbone turn-on, Mike. Pretty song, and beautiful cello and vocals.
I had a friend a long long time ago who was a huge Tower of Power fan. If you rode in his car you heard their music played insanely loud on his stereo. He had a really good car stereo. The stereo may have eventually been stolen.
Bum did it!
I don’t think he gets credit it for one though…
Yeah, a 7 inning game.
pitch count was high through 6 it was at 88 iirc. Good for him though.
La Stella and Flaco Dubon turn another DP, nicely done. Hope Webb can build off this.
Zach Pop! How is he not recording music?
Oh man, Belt. Lulz. Always in agony about the umps.
this is stupid, of course it’s a no hitter. He pitched the entire game, his team won and he didn’t give up any hits. Boom. No hitter.
Ah, it’s still to be decided!
The Elias/MLB relationship is probably very convoluted.
Dean Chance pitched a rain shortened 5 inning perfect game that stood for decades till they changed the rules a few years ago…
Have you seen any of these:
https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2010-05-25/article/35411?headline=The-Whistler-Sees-All-at-PFA–By-Justin-DeFreitas
?
Richard Dix playing a different loser every time out was a great conceit.
Leave it up to Whisler to fuck up Casali perfect shutout run!
It was his birthday present to Chuck.
This does not feel or look good
Wisler has a major league deal, but he may be the first to go of the Pen. Dude sometime looks like he’s throwing balloons up there. That one to Aguilar was a cookie on the inside third, belt high…
Phew!
Ballgame! And another series win!
This Pen looks like it’s going to be trouble down the road.
No way it doesn’t turn over 4 or 5 guys during the season, injuries or not.
Starting staff doing way better than expected…
No one hit the ball hard off of Rogers. Few have made good contact against him the entire season.
Got it done.
Craw and Longo have started their season long flirtation with injury, muscle pulls, etc. and IL. Belt probably will be that way, too. Looking forward to the end of Craw and Belt deals, still another year with Longo. Next year is the year to see the prospects — can they produce?…
Kapler recognizing Webb got lucky on the mound.
7 no-hit innings is not a no-hitter.
Sorry. And, MLB apparently says it’s not.
Hundreds/thousands? of starters have pitched 7 no hit innings, and then lost the no-hitter in the 8th and 9th.
Nice win for Bum, though…
I agree with that logic.
Academy Awards tonight, and I saw none of those movies. Zero.
I did see a lot of great older movies this past year.
“The Free State of Jones” was one of the best. A great movie that seemed to get very overlooked.
I try to watch at least one of the nominees every year, just to pull myself out of my “the only good movie is an old movie” rut every once in a while. The Trial of the Chicago 7 has the great Frank Langella to recommend it, but not too much else.
Didn’t get to see the whole game, but the parts that I saw looked like Webb was dealing. Got a bit nervous at the end, but put another W in that dere win column.
He was fine, but getting a DP via a really weak 3-1 swing on a pitch low and away in the 7th was emblematic.
Tatis Jr. just homered off May, his 5th of the weekend.
didn’t Mike Schmidt once do something like that to Giants?
The makeup and hairstyling Oscar had me on the edge of my chair. Whew. Glad to see Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom got the wink.
The march of time. An Applebee’s commercial is using part of an AC/DC song. One generation’s dangerous rock music can eventually be used in a family restaurant commercial.
mm I still enjoy listening to a few bars of the Latin hit I Like it Like That for pianist Pete Rodriguez from 1967 the Corona Seltzer commercial uses. Great tune and piano riff. Baile!
A lot of older singer/songwriters are cashing out and selling all rights to their recordings to big entertainment corporations. Dylan amongst them. I don’t blame them. The economics of the music business are total anarchy nowadays. Lots of surprising songs will be showing up on commercials.
Off topic from the commercial use of songs – Willie, have you ever checked out the Italian piano player, Raphael Gualazzi? I really like the tune he does called “Reality and Fantasy” but also there is an hour+ set he does with a band at the Blue Note in Milan that just kills it. His version of Caravan…wow.
thanks Bozo not familiar with him but I’ll check that out.
I’ve always admired Tom Waits refusal to let anyone *commercialize* his music.
I admire it, too, but I personally wouldn’t hold it against him if he did.
That’s not a dialectic I’m familiar with
I’m not sure “Whole Lotta Rosie” ever struck fear into anyone.
I never considered AC/DC to be particularly dangerous; but society, as a whole, sort of did.
I saw an interview with Pete Townshend where he talked about grief he was getting for The Who having allowed a song to be used in a commercial. He said something like “the song said what it had to say to its generation, decades ago, and then lived on past that. It’s already said what it had to say.” I can see his point. Any music and recordings get old enough to be beyond their state of hallowed status to society. Mozart is probably being used to sell toilet paper and it doesn’t faze us.
Was the song from their LP, “The Who Sells Out” ?
lulz! No.
I love that album, by the way. 🙂
Public domain is the public domain. The websites of some ambulance chasing lawyers probably launch into the hallelujah chorus when you click on. But the author usually has control for a good long while.
The Dodgers’ May is striking out a lot of guys and it’s not too thrilling.
I just threw out another bag of expired baby carrots that I never opened.
This is at least 8 in a row.
I always think this is gonna be my new healthy snack.
Time to give up on it…
Sprinkle them with salt.
Thanks, Xoot – maybe I’ll give that a shot.
Of course the key to doing that is not throwing them out first…
How many guys have to get hurt before they bring up the great Thairo Estrada?
Good week ahead with the Giants, the draft and the Derby…
yes. Think back to this time last year we had nothing.
The Giants have a somewhat friendly April schedule this season and they have taken advantage of that so far. Obviously a few more days to go in the month.