The Best Weekend Ever
Man I am STILL feeling that weekend all the way down in my plums! I’m gonna make the call right now: That was the best weekend for bay area sports (that didn’t involve winning a title) in history! That’s right I said it. H-I-S-T-MOTHERFUCKING-O-R-Y!
Prove me wrong.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Win tonight, and yes it would be icing on the cake. Glad to see the win Friday. Esp against the Dodgers. Had been on a losing streak at the ballyard. Last 4 games I went to we scored a grand total of 1 run. The last game we went to was a week before Bauer was suspended and he beat us 2-1.
What a massive surprise with the Gigantes!!! Did not see that sweep coming. Now that they pulled right back into this division race and we obviously (I think) have the pitching to keep with the Flodgers in the division race, I think we need to add bats now and not wait till the trade deadline. Hitters just did enough but we need to get a couple bats pronto. I have mentioned Josh Bell seems like an ideal pickup but who is the second bat we can get next 30 days???
Pitching and defense, who knew? Giants held Dogs AS lineup to 2 runs total over last 2 games.
Wynns so far seems like another great dumpster dive pick up.
I don’t usually like waiting so many days in between Dubs finals games but those mid week finals games are exhausting on the east coast even though the games have not gone on too too late (the return of DC traffic has magnified the exhaustion, one day last week took me 2 hours 10 minutes to get to work), but I appreciate the extra days to get ready for another intense game tonight.
You have to go back to 2016 for most games Casali has caught and started. Last year he started 55 games and caught 509 innings. He has already started 25 and caught 229 innings in just over 1/3 of season. Quality back up last season but this is completely different workload as main guy. Gonna need a lot of help; hope Wynns can hang and make someone else irrelevant.
what’s up with Bailey? I don’t really keep track of the minors. Is he another misfire?
Week ago he was hitting .198 at Eugene, High A ball.
Flavor:
Guess you know Flightline fig was 112.
Pac Classic next?
Francesa picked Speakers Corner and Barber Road on his podcast.
He may actually be worse than me…
There was a home series vs. the Dodgers where the Giants shut out the Dodgers in all three games. It may have been 2012, but I’m not totally sure. I was at the Saturday game in that series.
But the 2012 Giants were more talented overall than the 2012 Dodgers, so maybe this past weekend is indeed a little more impressive than that series.
I went a-diggin’ on the internet and found that 2012 series.
The Giants did beat prime Kershaw in that series. The other two Dodger starters weren’t necessarily all that.
June 25 vs. Dodgers 8–0 Zito (6–5) Eovaldi (0–4)
June 26 vs. Dodgers 2–0 Vogelsong (7–3) Kershaw (5–4)
June 27 vs. Dodgers 3–0 Lincecum (3–8) Billingsley (4–7)
“one day last week took me 2 hours 10 minutes to get to work”
I recommend audiobooks! It’s transformed the way I experience commute time.
Zum, I am too agitated to focus. But I do a lot of podcasts. Msnbc Morning Joe as well.
“Glad to see the win Friday. Esp against the Dodgers. Had been on a losing streak at the ballyard.”
I had some crazy streaks several years ago. I went to 10 straight wins and then 5 straight losses.
I knew the 10 win streak was in trouble before game 11 even started. It was on a Saturday, and turned out to be a day Bochy rested a lot of regulars, and it was one of the worst scrubini line-ups ever. I think Gillaspie was batting third that day, I kid you not. When Renel was announcing the lineup, you could hear an audible groan from the crowd in attendance. I’m not joking. We all saw that scrubini lineup posted on the scoreboard, and we thought about the money and trouble we’d taken to come to the game, and it wasn’t a nice feeling.
Buehler’s return status for this season is very iffy. He’s already had a Tommy John surgery at the beginning of his pro career. And he’s not even going to pick up a baseball until 6-8 weeks at the earliest. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the Dodgers go shopping for a starter.
MadBum maybe?
I don’t know if I could handle that…
My impression of Buehler is that he’s like Lincecum, not a pin-point control guy, but someone who relies on sheer electric stuff. With Lincecum, due to wear and tear on his body, when the fastball slowed down, and the off-speed stuff wasn’t as deceptive, it all ended relatively quickly. Beuhler won’t necessarily follow that same career trajectory, but it wouldn’t be surprising if he did.
Seals, of Seals and Croft, passed away. They had some good songs that were big hits in the ’70s, including the theme song to a pretty good basketball movie starring Robbie Benson as a college player who the head coach decides was a recruiting mistake, and the coach does sadistic things to try to get the player to quit his scholarship.
The actor that played the head coach is the same actor who played the head coach in the movie “North Dallas 40.” For a while apparently he was the go-to actor to play heartless jerk coaches.
They performed at my high school in 1972.
It was a pretty big deal at the time…
I always liked Seals&Croft just an easy mellow duo ,Summer Breeze etc,spun it on vinyl and listening to it on AM/FM radio alot..Yeah the band that played at my high school was Pablo Cruise,Ocean Breeze,Place in the Sun etc..good stuff!
Funny just getting started bands would even hit high schools, but hey that’s the crowd they want for instant exposure and makes total sense playing as often as you could..
Another band just starting out and their 1st album wasn’t even out yet was Journey, I saw them at the San Mateo fairgrounds and they were incredible led by a local guy named Neil Schon on lead guitar 🎸 (Aragon High) and Greg Rollie key boards and vocals before Steve Perry
North Dallas 40 is my pick for best movie about pro sports, because it really gets at the built-in paradox of pro sports. The player yelling at a coach: “Every time I call it a game, you call it a business; and every time I call it a business, you call it a game!” is a key moment. There’s no way that paradox can ever really be reconciled.
In 1870, baseball teams were as surprised as anyone to find out that people would buy tickets to watch men play baseball.
While seeing all the blue in stands this weekend kinda sucked, SF needs all the tourism $$ it can get. If they can come and enjoy baseball game with friends/family and be safe and sound all the better.
Yeah there were a lot of Dodgers in the bleachers on Fri night, but apparently not as much as yesterday. That was nuts. Great view to a sweep! Nothing was even close to getting out of hand. Lots of good-natured back and forth shit but good fun.
I was telling all the people I went with, out of the 300 odd night games I’ve been to at the Stick, NONE of them were even close to being as warm as it was Friday night. T-shirt weather in the 7th inning NEVER happened at the Stick. Crazy warm night. It rarely happened in the daytime, ffs.
Speaking of Flightline, TVG yesterday reran short vid of Gabby Gaudet talking to Flavien Prat from Saturday, and she had on light colored dress with that big hat. Britney Eurton looked lot more stylish, imnsho.
Even though Prat and We the People ultimately finished only 4th, that still was $100K payout to owners.
Gabby married a trainer – a lot of women in her field do…
Hmmm..Jockeying for a Trainer relationship does make sense I assume..
The best thing about not having a 401k is that you don’t have to worry about it disappearing in the casino known as the stock market…
shut up! my retirement is being pushed back a year as we speak!
Truth be told I may retire at 62, take the SS, and wait to hit the 401k until the market rebounds.
6 months ago the plan was to hit the 401k until the SS money went up.
You should transfer your 401k to a TVG account and let Big Flavor and The Boney One handle it for you…
I’m game. Let’s go, Craig. Got $50k burning a hole in my wallet.
First song that popped into my head.
Yeah, one of many big hits for them. They had an impressive run of hit singles.
Funny story about Santana, my sister saw them at Aragon High 3 weeks before they played Woodstock. From nothing to worldwide fame in a very short time.
I’ve seen him three times. Always a terrific show.
IF the Dubs win another championship, that would be 4 for Curry.
Would he take over from Joe as the most beloved/famous pro sports deity in the Bay Area?
I think it’s possible…
I think football rules in general, but I ain’t out there…
Great question. Definitely generational divide. Anyone under 30 will likely say Curry and maybe even Bonds second.
Are you still working Loo?
Not really.
Just an occasional odd job here and there.
I took SS at 62.
I believe that if you wait till 66 you don’t catch up until your 78.
What good is that?
Sorry to hear about Jim Seals. Seems like a lot of people from my youth are dropping like flies. S&C had some great tunes, including the one above, as well as some of the best harmonies in the business. I really cherish the music from the ’60s and ’70’s.
80 doesn’t seem so old anymore.
lol
Yeah, not a huge SnC fan, but their stuff was spot-on solid and the harmonies fantastic.
I don’t think anyone replaces Joe, but I’m also sure it’s a generational thing. Those who missed Joe and saw Steve would go that direction. Only one ring but a couple MVPs and a lot of great QBing. Those around later would go Timmy/Bummie/Buster. Later still you have Dray/Klay/Steph.
Hey, I’m just glad to be part of all these playoff and championship runs. Amazingly epic when you add them all up.
Luis Gonzalez (L) RF
Mike Yastrzemski (L) CF
Darin Ruf (R) 1B
Joc Pederson (L) LF
Brandon Crawford (L) SS
Thairo Estrada (R) 3B
Tommy La Stella (L) DH
Donovan Walton (L) 2B
Austin Wynns (R) C
P: Alex Wood (L)
Who would have predicted?
Thairo leads the Giants in hits by a pretty decent margin.
Also leads in runs and SB.
And tied for second in doubles and RBIs…
Kuiper had a really good weekend of broadcasting, IMO. It had a rough moment for him, on Slater’s HR, when Kuiper said “Deep drive to right!” on a ball hit into the leftfield bleachers. But he had a lot of strong moments. Three in particular especially stood out to me. He insisted that Buehler was injured, even as Krukow kept disagreeing with him. Krukow’s “ironclad” logic was that, since Beuhler was striking batters out, he couldn’t be injured.
Kuiper also sounded legitimately miffed that the Fox broadcast had given the false impression that someone else had thrown out the first pitch on Pride Day. It’s possible somebody above Kuiper in the organization asked him to make the correction, but Kuiper did sound sincere, which was cool. He could have just given a monotone correction, but he put some emotion into it. And in yesterday’s game he quickly spotted that a Dodger had failed to score on a double with two outs, because the player had forgotten how many outs there were.
And both Kuiper and Krukow get credit for a good interview with Cain, because the dreaded in-game interviews can be such a drag. Cain is a stoic character, and it takes a lot to get to him loosen up in an interview, and K&K got Cain to do that a little, which made for a listenable interview.
“Msnbc Morning Joe as well.”
I have our DVR set to record the show on a regular basis, and if I have some time that particular night, I watch chunks of the show. I don’t always agree with Joe, but I often do; and they have great guest pundits, including the great historian Jon Meacham. I’m listening to the audiobook of Meacham’s “Franklin and Winston” these days. The book is so good. The great historians bring the material alive, and Meacham does that well.
Here’s a fun fact about Churchill that I think a lot of people don’t know: Churchill’s mother was an American. And some of the British, early in Churchill’s political career, made slurs about Churchill being a “half-breed.”
Nobody does that fake handoff, drive to the basket play, better than Green.
For sure Zumie Green faked out the Celtics and the announcers on that Dunk.
Bodes well when Greens on his game early! Dubs continue tough defense!
Kinda of foolish for Kerr to leave in Looney with 3 first quarter fouls?
Santana did very well at Woodstock, and deserve the accolades they got. They were the perfect band for the 2 PM time-slot they had on the Saturday. The audience still had a lot of energy, and Santana’s music was very danceable and upbeat for the crowd. Some of the other acts had some surreal time-slots. The Who were finally onstage at 5 AM Sunday morning. And Hendrix was finally onstage at 9 AM Monday morning, when most of the crowd had already left.
Woodstock was impressive in many ways. The first giant outdoor rock music festival, out in a big pasture, with no real campsites, using 1969 concert technology. The festival itself didn’t make money, and the movie didn’t make much money; but the soundtrack album, however many discs it was, was hugely successful and made a lot of money.
Three deaths unfortunately at Woodstock.
“Three young men died while attending Woodstock, two from drug overdoses and another–just 17 years old—was run over by a tractor collecting debris while he was asleep in a sleeping bag.”
After the Dodger series, it’s a little hard to get up for this Royals series.
Hopefully not for the team.
Story was, Santana met Jerry and the Dead and decided to drop acid as Bill Graham told them they would be playing in 6 7 hours. An hour later he said, you guys are on in 20 minutes.
Santana said he felt like he was wrestling a snake the whole show.
Kuiper does seem more engaged this year, but he’s 0 for 4 tonight trying to pronounce Benintendi…
Woodstock was a few years too early for me, but I did go to the Watkins Glen festival 4 years later in summer of ’73, just before I began 4th year at highschool. Of course it had the requisite big ass rainstorm, a few drug overdoses, etc., but that Friday evening before the day-long concert was one of the most peaceful and yet festive evenings I’d ever had. Dead played a sound-check that turned into 2 full sets. That next day, Saturday, was brutal in the heat and the number of people that made it impossible to even move if you were inside. After the Dead’s set and the Band came on, I walked back to my campsite (took 2 hours to get thru the crowd inside) and lay on my back in the shade listening to them play. Went back in for Allmans at night, but what a mess after the rains. I remember thinking I was glad it was just the 2 nights. We all looked like drowned rats trying to find our cars the next morning to head back to Joisey. One of those things that I’m so glad I did it but then had no need to ever do it again….
Ball 16.
Walkin about, even in a crowd, well…
Whoa a Herman’s Hermits reference….
Very good, Paul.
Healing okay there?
I think it was foul…
How fucking stupid is this delay?
Fair?!? Hah!!!
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Yeah Loo, thanks, slowly getting there.
I saw Santana one afternoon in 68 in a side tent at Santa Clara County Fair Grounds, somewhat distracted by the weak weed of the day and the beautiful hippie chicks waving beautiful arms and swaying beautiful hips with no real regard for the music. Santana played all the first-album songs (incl. SS, the big hit at WS). But their intensity on Jingo, the Olatunji cover, stunned me. They were trying to channel it, to master the passionate, complex rhythms as they invoked the African spirits. It seemed like a ritual they used to empower their entire set, and it worked. I knew of Olatunji only becz Dylan mentioned him in early songs.
Thairo adding to that team-leading hit total.
One more to go for the Dubs.
Wiggins had a hell of a night.
Which was good, because Curry did not.
Wiggins easily puts himself in the MVP conversation now, he’s been fantastic..
Alright Craw!
Nice double there.
Gonzo on the bases!
Hustle Double,Gonzalez has been a fine dumpster dive pick up, and now he does it all for an extra run, on so, wild throw for a wild insurance run..
That run scored by Gonzalez was very exciting!
Doval is a cool dude.
Good start to a series the Giants have to win.
Flavor’s dream weekend has extended…
Yeah Flavors double dipping his juicy plum nuts 🥜 again with Warriors and Giants winning again on the same night!
YES!!! Never in a million years did I see Dubs winning a game in this series if Curry went 0-9 from 3!!!
Splash Bros go off in game 6 led by game 6 Klay! And another win and SF only 3 games back. 2 weeks ago I didn’t think we would get that close all season!