Who’s Your Current Favorite Giant?
If you could only pick one, who would it be and why? My answer is easy and obvious: he brings his shovel to work. What started out as just a great nickname has blossomed into one of the best stories in years. He has the best OPS on the team. He’s their fastest player. And their best outfielder. The Grave Duggar is MY GUY.
But there are so many to choose from.
You have to pick 1.
Go!
More Flap representation. Here is Chi and his daughter at the game yesterday:
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Crawford.
Me too.
Yaz.
Great pic!
Gausman close second, reminds me of Giants ace SPs of past. Seems like he is capable of no hitter every time out. DeSclafani tonight, Gausman tomorrow at Latrine. should be fun. this time Dogs are ones looking up in standings.
Outstanding picture up top.
Growin that hair, Chi? Beautiful daughter.
My cat and the Grave Duggar are all I get out of bed for…
Thanks, Loo. Yes…have not cut the hair since Feb. 2020. I am a bit biased but yeah, I think my daughter is beautiful, too.
Nice curls, Chi.
I’ve got Covid hair going, too.
No haircut in well over a year.
Probably not as good as yours, I have less to work with !
Snarkettes got me to rock a pony tail…
Duggar. His defense and smooth/stylish way of moving on the field is what started me on him. And I love the fact that he went to Clemson. I always have had a thing for Clemson, going back to Steve Fuller. And I love my under the radar dudes. I just thought if he could hit a little bit, he could help us. But this????? Starting regularly and being one of the guys that makes the team go? This is more than I ever could have dreamed for. They had to be right on the verge if DFAing him more than once.
What an incredible run.
I sit here trying to answer, but in fact there is a new one every day one guy picks up the team. It’s what makes this team the cream of what is success. What is true chemistry .
I honestly can’t put one over the others . It’s a machine that breeds confidence in each working part. When one part breaks down, another picks him up.
Sorry I’m a sentimental dick here, but I have no favorites.
Good response, and totally logical. I get it….
Gasman. I had high hopes for the starting pitchers, but didn’t think they’d be this great. And he is leading the way.
He’s mine also.
I’ve had quite the LA experience these past few days. I’m still here and COULD go to tonight’s game, but I have to get back to San Diego before mirning so that would be a LONG night.
Last night my son Matt took us to some hip Mexican place and John C Reilly was a couple tables over from us. Played golf yesterday with Matt and a couple of his friends at Griffith Park and they put a fifth guy in our group, and he was a character straight out of an LA movie. Snazzy oufit, hair, glasses. Remote control golf cart, great one liners and imitations. Pointed out Kirstie Alley’s house to us. He shot one over while putting down beers, smoking a cigar, AND I’m quite certain i saw him quickly snort a little coke on the 6th tee box. Kicking myself for not asking him what he did for a living.
Funny stuff. Is that Mapdog? I’m doing a charity golf outing today with my mom, next-oldest brother and a friend from high school who used to belong to the course we’re playing today, so he’s going to be a nice ringer for us.
No this is Map’s older brother—-the one who knows Chuck’s daughter and got Panik’s home run ball.
Map just graduated from Cal Poly SLO—-which was a pretty good feat seeing as he got academically dq’d from junior college a few years ago. It was a helluva comeback by him.
Great pic Chi—-you both look great!
Good to hear Matt is doing well down there.
Thanks, SanD. Was great to be at the yard again.
Great pic, Chi!
There’s a bunch of guys on this team who are easy to root for and have become favorites of mine: Yaz, Wilmer, Barrels, Gausman, and yes, the Grave Duggar. But I have to go with Craw. He’s been a damn good player at an important position for almost a decade now, and it’s great to see him become a big part of the offense again after some down years.
I saw that the Yanks placed Wandy Peralta on the IL due to a back issue. Looks like Wandy wasn’t exactly holding up his end of the deal: in his last five outings, he had a 9.64 ERA (5 ER, 4.2 IP), and opponents had a .964 OPS against him. So maybe Tauchman, with his two game-saving catches and two big bombs, doesn’t look quite so bad in comparison.
exactly, that’s what I said all along. We gave up nada for Sock Man. And again, I firmly believe he saved the season with that Pujols catch. The chaos that would have erupted after that epic loss would have affected them for the next week at least. You literally can’t put a value on that catch….
Thanks, Mac. Even tho we lost…it was a great day at the yard.
Until he’s permanently back home in Dixie with that earlier minor OPS genius, Mr. Lewis ….
Crawford. For several reasons. When I played ball, most of the time I played SS. Since coming up with the Giants Craw has been one of my favorites.
This year he is having a career year when I truly thought he might be done. 35 is my guy.
Kevin Gausman is the man no doubt, with his laid back personality (Timmy like) to his lethal variety of pitches,a true ACE who brings it every game.Plus he wears the coolest baseball glove in baseball ⚾️.Should be the A/S starter isn’t he from Colorado?where the games at?Yeah DeGrom is great but he’s breaking down and the Mets would be wise to tell him to skip it for the rest.
Honorable mention has to go out to Anthony T-Bone Disco DeScaffani just a brilliant signing by Z/Harris who just brings that “Chuck Norris bad ass swagger to the mound every start” and like Gausman brings it every game with confidence and consistency..
J
Buster is still my favorite Giant on the roster. He’s having a bounce-back season, and if his body holds up, possibly has a few more productive seasons ahead of him, and is slowly restarting Hall of Fame talk in the national media.
If he hits 20 this season, the talk will ratchet way up re: HOF.
Deservedly so, too. There simply haven’t been that many better players at the position.
I’m back on board the Buster HOF bandwagon. Kapler and co. are very good for him.
The Dodgers come into this series feeling very confident. They got no-hit recently, but they have Bellinger and Muncy back, and they’re feeling like they got a lot of their mojo back.
The 2-game series probably shouldn’t be over-emphasized by Giants fans. After that we have four coming up vs. the struggling D-Backs.
Yeah, weird little 2-gamer vs the Dogs. They may be confident, but they have the struggling non-Spider-cum Bauer pitching. He of the reduced spin rate and suddenly hittable fastball.
Nobody wants to be that first pitcher to get suspended and more fully disgraced to have the honor of totally being the first dipshit to be caught.It’s coming u can bank on it, don’t think it will be a Giant as Kapler and his staff seem to have it under control,winning has a way of curing any problems.Some borderline pitcher are reliever will probably in up falling on the sword first..
It has now happened:
“Mariners’ Héctor Santiago becomes first MLB pitcher ejected under new foreign substance protocols”
let’s see where this goes. Getting ejected and finding shit are two different things. That glove better be covered in that shit or MLB is fucked. Santiago says it was just rosin and spit. But the question is……did someone order the code red on Santiago? We shall see.
Good one Flavor..
Nicholson:Santiago was a below average Marine and his death although tragic probably makes the Marines stronger.💪
Cruise:I want Answers!!!
Nicholson: You can’t handle the truth!!!
Cruise:Did you order the Code Red?
Nicholson:You’re Damm right I did!!!!
thank you, I was hoping someone would catch that!
Duggar and Gausman and Crawford and Posey are excelling and I’m thrilled But I gotta go with Mr. Rogers, only because I dissed him so frequently in the early days. The guy’s got ice water in his veins. I think someone should photoshop a flat-topped cowboy hat and a half-smoked stogie onto his image and have him nodding after a save.
If Belt left, he’d be the one. Definitely my favorite pitcher.
Belt did leave.
From the organization. My fandom has weathered a few injuries before.
Climate change talk got me thinking about our northernmost Minnesotan and his efforts to rehab/reconstruct his humble abode to withstand a hopefully milder and shortened winter. And perhaps establish a more viable connection to Interwebs and stay abreast of Giants wonderful 2021 season.
Wilmet would be a very close second to the Grave Duggar on my list.
Buster and Craw are long term relationships.
It’s a different feeling…
Baggs with interesting column in Athletic, noting after L to Cole Irvin yesterday Giants lack of success vs. LHP, how much they miss Longoria, etc. Slater in a big time slump–June has been rough for him and Dubon continues to be Dubon. Davis due to come off rehab assignment in few days and needs spot on 40 man (could replace Belt if he has to go on 60); Giants won’t face LH SP vs. Dogs so some of weak hitters safe for now.
As for Tauchman, read yesterday that Giants were 8-4 in games before the catch, and then after went 6-3. In other words, “they’ve been good all year. “
and if they went in the tank 0-9 after that epic loss would that have you valuing that catch more?
We will never know. Could have been a rallying cry.
eh, maybe. But that was not going to be a normal loss. That was going to be devastating. We would have talked about that loss for years.
Since it didn’t happen, meaningless. Giants were 10 games over ,500, not coming off suckitude. Those are numbers, not speculation. But believe what you want.
Willie, we play in a park that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men – men with gloves!
Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. AlleyKat?
You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want the Sock Man on that wall — you need him on that wall…
Giants need better players. He’s 5th LH, out of 5. Kap starts him once a week-because he likes Dickerson better. Kap knows it’s what is best for team.
Nice
Colonel Jessup…
I run my unit how I run my unit.
You want to investigate me, Lt Loo? Roll the Dice 🎲
and take your chances.”I EAT BREAKFAST 300 Yards from 4,000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me.
So don’t think you can come down here in your girly whites,flash a badge,and make me nervous!”
Stix called late last night. We talked until nearly midnight Calif time. A friend hooked him up with a small solar panel system so he has a light in his ice-fishing shack and a charge for the flip phone the parole people gave him. His only media is his car radio; most of his neighbors are Amish. The man’s on the edge of the grid.
He was glad to get the Giants news update. Belt and Longo out bummed him; everything else delighted him. First to fifty, Gausman the ace, Dugger the CF we’ve been looking for, etc. etc. His parole officer has given him to the end of August to make his home habitable — i.e., to turn it into an actual home address. He has a lot of work to do. One neighbor donated an old unneeded barn. The idea of working up on the roof above the second story hayloft with a claw framing hammer and crowbar trying to pry the lumber loose doesn’t sit well with him. He’s contemplating a chain harnass and tractor pull to bring it all crashing down. He’s optimistic, as always. Great 2 by 6’s, he says.
He gets on well with his PO, an indigenous guy who grew up on a res in ND, so he may be able to negotiate a compromise on the end-of-August deadline, etc. He’s planning to approach the local power coop to get hooked on. He figures industrial strength extension cords from the pole at the highway to his house 1/4 mile or something up the drive will work. He’s optimistic.
Being free and in the country, eating well (he waxed poetic about his slow bbq’d pork roast and boiled potatoes & various vegies) agrees with him. My prediction: he’ll be back on line to see the Giants make the PS.
Wow. That’s quite an update. I’m impressed you can talk on the ph for so long, I can’t do that. Does he have anyone helping move stuff around or is he on his own?
His friends come over and help occasionally but it’s mainly solo. Stix and I have plenty to talk about. We are old. 😉
Wow….what an update. Thanks for the share, Mike.
I still like Sock Man even though I suspect he’s not long for the team. He made two game saving catches this year. No telling how many we lose after the Pujols game if we lost that game. That would have been a gut punch. Also, he looks a little like Will Clark to me (maybe it’s the eye black). I like anything that reminds me of the Thrill. And he get a tip of the cap from me for hitting that bomb with his back against the wall facing down the barrel of 6 possible strikouts…….
Still, he can’t hit and we have plenty of outfielders. I wish him well in AAA
Gausman is my guy.
He’s been stone cold consistently good to awesome season to date…
Cold watermelon in the summer is so great. In addition to baseball, one of the great joys of summer. I’m no authority on the subject, but it seems like a very good year for watermelons out here in the west.
Doesn’t watermelon contain the active chemical in viagra?
Ha! I have no idea.
I found this chart kind of interesting. The top 10 countries in watermelon production. (Watermelons originated in Asia.)
1 China
2 Turkey
3 Iran
4 Brazil
5 Uzbekistan
6 Algeria
7 United States
8 Russia
9 Egypt
10 Mexico
On several successive summer afternoons a battered pickup stopped in a farmer’s watermelon field, the driver hopped out, tossed a few melons into the bed, and sped away. Finally, after watching this from his distant front porch, the farmer placed a sign by the road: “This patch contains one melon injected with fatal poison.” Next day, the truck stopped and left without a melon. But it returned and stopped for a while before leaving. The farmer went to investigate and found a new sign posted: “Now there are two.”
I know. I know.
Not a fan of watermelon.
Cantaloupes, Crenshaw melon, Honeydew, etc., yes…
I have had several this year and they were all awesome.
“I’ve got Covid hair going, too.”
My hair is cut short, but my beard is much longer than it used to be. I decided to give that a try.
1. LaMonte Wade Jr (L) 1B
2. M. Yastrzemski (L) RF
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Alex Dickerson (L) LF
5. B. Crawford (L) SS
6. Wilmer Flores (R) 3B
7. Steven Duggar (L) CF
8. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
9. A. DeSclafani (R) P
BEAT LA!
Buster must feel strong.
Good lineup.
The lineup vs. lefties has Slater which isn’t as much fun.
It would be a better LU against LH pitching if they called up Jaylin Davis to leadoff 👊🏾
It’s worth a try!
Yesterday was 6 years since Timmy last pitched for the Giants…
better
Ohtani is probably the all around best player in the game right now. If we had him there would be no stopping us.
Ohtani is my favorite non-Giant player in the MLB.
The guy is a treasure…
First pitch bomb. Dude is a bad ass…
I remember that Bonds bomb in the Bronx.
Absolutely crushed.
What was that, 500 feet ?…
i remember this trade like it was last night
Snarkk/XOOT/East Bay Flappers: you feel that earthquake?
Felt nothing. 4 magnitude?!?
Yeah. 4.2 or something. Football stadium probably danced on its rolling foundation.
Small shake here. But I’m on pretty good bed rock down the hill from the Hayward fault.
minors news from yesterday. In Sac game where Davis had slam, Beede went 4 innings gave up 6 hits 3 walks 2 runs. Sac won 16-7 and hit 5 bombs. J T talked up IF Krizan, reminds me of Vosler as LH.
Ramos yikes another 0-3 now 5-46 with 0 XBHs in last 12 games for Richmond.
That’s strange for Ramos. Maybe transitory; hope so. We’re so lucky the Grave Duggar stepped up.
I don’t consider Beede a prospect anymore.
He’s 28 and what has he ever shown except his famous black shoes?
A straight 95 mph four seamer that blew out his elbow.
LMAO….
The lousy homeplate umps make the sport hard to enjoy sometimes.
Great a 2 game series and they end up with Angel Hernandez behind homeplate!
One of the worst all time! That strike 3 call about a foot outside was ridiculous..
Too close to take, gotta protect with 2 strikes, can’t leave it up to the ump.
That pitch wasn’t too close to anything except one of the dugouts.
Should I post a graphic of outside called strike 3s to Belt? I guarantee you that what Posey took was pretty average.
A Belt graphic would definitely have a lot of called third strikes to look at.
Far fewer than you think.
Bauer just hotly argued with angel that he deserved that close call again vs the pitcher. Wtf thinks it’s a good idea to challenge angel in the second inning with the fucking pitcher up? Bauer is entertaining.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Belt’s time here is over. He can take pitches in Houston. Tired of the injuries and the .220 hitter approach.
Ok, whatever, Chuck. He was excellent this year and last. The injuries are a bummer. His approach is the Giants’ approach in general. Don’t swing at pitches out of the zone. It works.
Excellent? Which of the 3 stints to the IL have been excellent? He will ALWAYS be an unfulfilled anomaly. He’s been dogged for never taking advice from the coaches and now he hits like he’s Johnny LeMaster.
i don’t know if I’d call that *their approach*. They seem to be very agressive early and then work the count afterwards if they don’t see that first pitch they like. Regardless of that, Belt has been clearly identified by MANY MANY people including the great Thrill as someone who has no interest in changing his hitting approach. I hate him and can’t wait till his dumbass is gone
Will was a great player.
I revere Will Clark but discount everything he says.
Chuck, I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
Bad job by Dodger “table setters”…
Not the start T-Bone needed back to back jacks..
Gimme Shelter.
Fuuuuuck. I missed 2 bombs? This looks like the game I saw w/Garrett.
There you go.
Wade Jr.
Ball’s flying tonight.
Wade rides one out!!
Watermelon. I’ve learned many many many things I never would’ve imagined living over here, but one of the most surprising was, don’t eat watermelon to top off a meal of fresh seafood. Don’t know why, and maybe it’s just here in VN for some reason. But I do know why they call it the runs.
So no oysters with watermelon?
It’s yummy, but I paid the price a couple of times… still not sure why.
Oh, and apropos of timing, my favorite Giant out of this bunch has become Wade Jr. Let Wade stay! Let Wade stay! and….. Bring up Jaylin! Bring up Jaylin! That’s for Kat. Lieutenant AlleyKat.
Would love to see him get a run against some lefties. He doesn’t look overmatched.
Well thank you sir!!
Yeah I think Davis could really add another intriguing situation at the top are bottom of the LU..
Wasn’t Wade a teammate of Davis in Minnesota?
I’m waiting for this call to post when Wade goes in the cove in SF,
From Deep Purple…”Wade in the Water” thumbs up are down?
Should of been Wade on the Water 💦
Wade in the water, that’s good… Wasn’t that an old Tijuana Brass song?
I think Harriett Tubman and her crew launched into that spiritual when it was time for fleeing slaves to get off the path and into the creek or river to thwart the dogs.
Bauer has a owie on his toe now. He’s pissed.
I believe star pitcher Dizzy Vance pitching for the StLouis Cardinals Gashouse gang took a line drive off his foot that fractured it, had to change his delivery and was never the pitcher again..
Bloody red sun of fantastic LA…
Smog and fog and superfice. Somehow it combusts.
Xoot, your 5:33 clip of Bonds brought it all back, those players on that team, seeing Bonds, Kent, Aurelia, Snow… I loved that team. And who knows, this year *could* over time bring back some nostalgia years from now, seeing a clip and there’s Wilmet, Duggar, Wade, Solano, Gasman, etc. and sentiments of “I loved that team”.
The Brandons were, without doubt, my favorite Giants for a handful of years there. As much as Belt’s at-bats seemed to drive most people nuts, I loved watching him hit. Hmm, should still use present tense, he ain’t gone yet…
Cars hiss by my window.
Weird. We were both sitting in the couch and my wife felt the quake but I didn’t.
“Like the waves down on the beach”
Stay safe.
Fuck. Crush this guy.
When your lead off hitter bats 3 times in 4 innings, you should really have more than one run…
5 hits and wasting light.
Cars Hiss By My Window.
My fav Doors song, next to LA Woman.
“A cold girl will kill you in a darkened room”.
No, I didn’t feel the EBay quake. San Leandro epicenter is on the other side of the hills from the Tri Valley.
My older snarkkette felt it in the 2nd story, though. Frame shakes…
0-2 cripple
Frame flexes.
So many cool songs by the Doors.
Sidewalk crouches at her feet
Like a dog that begs for something sweet
All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave…
Disco is hanging pitches tonight.
This is game is moving like mud.
Do you have good pot dispensaries in Mo Town?
I wouldn’t know.
P/A..You are right my man!
Herb Albert &TJ brass did a instrumental song called Wade in the Water, was on a few different albums they released..
“Now, why would I know that, but don’t know who I am….”
Wade in the Water was one of the spiritual songs composed by slaves in the U.S. to help make the long work day somewhat more bearable.
Angel strikes again…
Goddamn Hernandez really is the worst.
Angel’s strike zone changes shape like a drunken amoeba.
There should be some kind of pitch call protest capability.
Two per game…
2 per inning when Angel is behind the plate.
Two per AB.
Ángel is just an extreme version of most umps. Shouldn’t the hitters anticipate his inconsistency, and hack at everything within 2 inches of the strike zone with two strikes? Of course not, because he’ll still call the majority of them balls. Like most umps.
Duggar’s dive missed that one but Yaz was right behind to shut mookie down with a single. We have an OF. With about four LFs to fill in.
Get Ramos up after the AS break…
See WD’s update above. Ramos is scuffling. We have more OFs than we need now.
Just looked and saw it. He was doing OK a few weeks ago. Scuffling since then, for sure…
Yeah. Dick ain’t dick these days.
85 pitches. 1 out.
Nice of the Dodger fans to distract Turner at the plate. Fucking moons all of ‘em.
Mooks
I thought you meant morons.
No crowd did the wave better than the Seahawks fans way back when it started…
Crawfish!!!
5 solos tonight
That was fuckin launched!
Craw!
Damn! Wilmer looks gimpy
One other little thing of wonder about this team, to me personally, is how thrilled I am to see a Yaz in the lineup.
Has Bauer been searched yet tonight?