We Like These Kids
I knew the Pirates were overrated but that was just too easy. Patty Bails sliding into fan favoritism. And Schmitt right behind him. FINALLY we have some young guys coming up. This team has trended away from boring and I couldn’t be more excited.
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Just read where the Giants lead the league in bunt hits with 14. I don’t think we’ve had 14 bunt hits in the last 6 years. That’s impressive.
I love bunts. With the emphasis back somewhat to steals, bunting may be coming back…
I like em too. They change the way the game is played. I would love to see more of a Billy Ball back in the game.
Wade had nice one yesterday and Sabol has done it successfully too. Easier for LHs with 3b moved over.
I know shifts are outlawed but middle IFs are still pulled way over toward 2b. For LHs the SS is couple feet left of the base, meaning 3b has to cover lot of ground, leaving field open to bunt.
Amazing how a couple kids can change the outlook of the team. They went from boring to exciting overnight. Kinda like when Robby Thompson and Will Clark came up.
On a side note, DJ, all these years I assumed Otis Taylor was in the Hall of Fame.
Unfuckingbelievable he isn’t in.
As long as the media holds most of the votes it will always be a little shady. I wish the living member of the HOF would be able to vote also. It still might not be a fair consensus but it would probably change the dynamic and represent the best of then and now.
Like The Who song goes “The Kids are alright “
Giants have a decision coming up with RH Reliever Luke Jackson who’s just about ready after TJ surgery last year.Need to open up a spot on the 40 man.He was solid 1.98 ERA for Braves in 2021 and has pitched well in Sac 5 out of 6 appearances no runs allowed.Stripass to 60 day IL works for me,guess we will see had they maneuver around this soon.
Pavs gets paid to be a homer, but sometimes he has a point.
That was Z’s first draft with the Giants, correct?
Farhan was hired in 2018, but much of the old guard was still around in summer 2019 apparently. That draft hasn’t panned out much. But remember how surprised everyone (including JoeyB I bet) was when they selected Bailey so high?
Good find Xoot . . . That being said, if the Giants go on a 3 game losing streak, no doubt we will hear what an idiot Z is from the naysayers. lqtm . . .
totally disagree. Losing streaks are fine, they happen with every team. The difference now is that we’ve finally infused the team with some youth and they are getting to play every day. THIS IS WHAT WE’VE NEEDED!
Miami and Boston, 22-15 after one quarter, a lot of one-on-one, and guys flinging up bricks on 3-pointers. Yuck. Not good basketball.
Tough for Boston that Tatum sprained his ankle on the first possession of the game.
Warriors GM Myers declines contract, not coming back. Dunleavy Jr. to take over I guess. Lot for him to sort out, not least being owner Lacob’s lux tax penalties vs. roster construction.
Dunleavy, who has never done this job before, is probably fucked. Aren’t they facing like a 400 million dollar lux tax? Myers bailed cause he saw the writing on the wall…….
Yes. First year of new and expensive Poole contract, last year of Klay deal ($40 mil) and Dray has an option for $27 mil he can either exercise or become FA. New CBA makes it tougher for Warriors to keep DeVincenzo, limiting what they can offer him. Not gonna be easy to keep everyone including Steph happy if he loses some of above, and at same time reload to try and get another one while Curry is still a force.
Boston: “We’re 0-10 in the 1st quarter shooting threes! Let’s keep doing it!!” Stupid. They had the game within reach down 6 early in the 4th quarter and continued hoisting treys. Dumb. Oh well. Woulda been cool to see them overcome the 0-3 deficit, but not to be. They would have matched the 2004 (?) Red Sox as the only pro team to overcome a 3-0 deficit in the conference (or league) finals.
Curious as to why Myers is leaving. Is this like a Bochy break? Or is he done with GMing?
Seems odd since he pretty much had unwavering support from the top to the bottom of the organization. But I guess the newly enacted rules changes makes shit even harder, and he did mention the grind of the job for the past 10 years. Plus, the team he helped build is getting older. There are some tough decisions to make very soon. Dray and Klay being the biggies. Dray mentioned how close he was to Myers and that his decision would have an effect on what Dray does.
Writing on the wall the dynasty is over and things get much harder to manage in potential salary cap hell and win as the core 3 get older, less and less effective, and/or leave. Plus, Joe Lacob is reportedly not the easiest guy to work for. Take the 4 championships in a decade, a lot of money made, fan respect and thanks, and call it done. Plus, he reportedly wants to move back to LA…
Shit, shouldn’t Myers also get some shit for this hole they’re in right now? I get that he did a lot of good but he’s sticking Dunleavy with an absolute shitshow to fix. He has to take some blame for this.
4 trophies is a great salve for a current wound.
Like Sabes and the 3 beauties — after 2014…
Sure, I was just saying it makes sense that he’s bailing now.
Yeah, kinda like when Harbaugh left the Niners. He saw that Baalke had drafted 4 years of shit, York and Baalke were letting guys go like Gore, VD, and Crabtree, and the Michigan job came available.
Not THAT bad, but between the aging of the core, the new rules around signing guys, and the not-so-stellar drafts recently, the time is right for Myers to go out not quite on top, but pretty damn close.
I’m sure he’ll pull a Bochy and unretire himself in a couple years. Shit, he’s only 48.
GM Meyers probably stepped down cause he didn’t want to have to trade Klay are Green and not get stuck over paying either as well.I respect everything he did for the Warriors with their incredible run, now maybe he just enjoys some family time.
In speaking with reporters after the game, Giants manager Gabe Kapler, discussing Bailey and Schmitt’s continued success at the major-league level, was asked if the rookies’ performance so far this season has surprised him.
“It’s unusual. It’s unusual to see two rookies come up and have the type of success and sustained success that these two players are having,” Kapler explained. “I imagine, and this is a little bit of a speculative take, that they’re having a shared experience around it.”
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Nothing I can think of will ever top Jim Rice and Fred Lynn in 1975…
That’s how I felt about Will and Robby . . .
With Bailey up, Bart must be wondering what he did to piss off the baseball gods. Or, what he didn’t do.
Farhan et al had prescience and good talent eyes to think Bart may not eventually be up to snuff, and they took Bailey. I know I was dubious at the time of having picked another catcher in the top round. Bailey looks like a natural catcher just doing his thing with the glove back there. Bart looks like he has to work too hard to get it done…
The thing about Bart is he never looks like he’s enjoying himself or the game. Forget Gumby shoulder,s he’s got Gumby face.
Schmitt and Bailey are having a blast.
Wracking my little brain trying to come up with great rookie duos of the past…
Maybe those A’s teams in Reggie’s day. Have to look that up, who was rook alongside him.
Nah, Reggie hit 29 bombs in 1968, but other young guys like Rudi and Bando weren’t good yet.
Hunter was also only 22 but had been up/down since 1965. And like others didn’t blossom til later.
Who came up with Mays? Cepeda and McCovey weren’t the same year, were they?
back to back rookies of year, 58 and 59.
An almost — Gooden & Strawberry, but a year apart.
And Chili Davis&Jack “The Ripper Clark”
For a rookie combination with a pitcher and a hitter..Kimbrel &Freeman in 2011 finished 1-2 for the Braves .Kimbrel ROY beating out Freeman..
Local HS baseball playoffs begin today. SF AAA public school league Champs Lowell are coached by Marcus Semien’s uncle Darryl and will play Oakland Section Champs Skyline.
This trade actually happened😳🤯😳🤯😳…
March 15, 1978: the Texas Rangers sent Ken Henderson to the New York Mets to complete an earlier deal made on December 8, 1977. December 8, 1977: The Texas Rangers sent a player to be named later and Tom Grieve to the New York Mets. The Atlanta Braves sent Willie Montanez to the New York Mets. The Texas Rangers sent Tommy Boggs, Adrian Devine and Eddie Miller to the Atlanta Braves. The Texas Rangers sent Bert Blyleven to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Nelson Norman and Al Oliver to the Texas Rangers. The New York Mets sent Jon Matlack to the Texas Rangers. The New York Mets sent John Milner to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I can’t even read through it let alone trying to figure out who got the best of it…
Pirates won the World Series in ’79 with Blyleven on the staff, I’d go with the Buccos.
The Braves didn’t do so hot ….
1. LaMonte Wade Jr. (L) 1B
2. Mike Yastrzemski (L) CF
3. J.D. Davis (R) 3B
4. Michael Conforto (L) RF
5. Mitch Haniger (R) LF
6. Blake Sabol (L) DH
7. Casey Schmitt (R) 2B
8. Patrick Bailey (S) C
9. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
P: John Brebbia (R)
Crawfish 9th. Huh.
FYI:
You can still get all the Cleveland Indian/Wahoo stuff you want at: clindians.com
Did you think they just burned everything?
I didn’t look up the Redskins…
Guardians is a stupid fucking name and if I was a Cleveland fan I’d definitely buy some shit from that website
I’m long overdue for a Larry Doby jersey.
One of very few non-Giant jerseys I would wear…
Right spot for Crawford he has to show he can hit again if he’s expect to move up in the LU..
Nice move getting another good pitcher in Luke Jackson up for a BP that’s going good,they might throw him in later in this opener game..
Wally Pipp Villar easy move sending down again as he continues to not hit up here.
Even better dumping useless Matt Beaty off the 40man to open up a spot for Jackson..
Buster and MadBum coming up nearly together in June 2010 changed the team forever. Time will tell if Schmitt/Bailey has same effect in long run, but it sure has started out looking fairly significant….
No doubt, Paul but they didn’t put up sick numbers.
Lynn and Rice may stand alone…
Pete Rose and tommy Harper were rooks for Reds 1963 who hit 1-2, but neither did much. Rose hit .270 with .705 OPS, Harper little worse. Played HS ball at Encinal of Alameda, like Pops Stargell and J Rollins.
Conner Joe from Kokomo?
The first time I heard of Kokomo was watching the great bowler, Don Johnson on Saturday afternoons…
I loved watching those bowling matches on ABC(?). Johnny Petraglia, what a cool name.
He used to bowl at Rainbow Lanes in Brooklyn.
Mark Roth, too…
Back in my newspaper days, I covered the Johnny Petraglia Open in North Brunswick, NJ., in ’91. One week earlier, Del Ballard Jr. needed 7 pins on his final roll to win a tourney over Pete Weber — but rolled a gutter ball to give Weber the win! I got to interview Ballard about that prior to the JPO, and he handled it great. Weber also won the Petraglia tourney.
Logan Webb sounds like he’s on quaaludes…
Going to the game tomorrow, Schmitt better not hit weak ass pop outs like that in my presence.
So Giants need to win tonight to take the series?
You got it, unfortunately.
Broadcast just lost the K zone box at start of Giants ABs this inning.
Forgot what pitches looked like without it.
Better for the blood pressure.
back now though as Pirates hit.
So Cleveland fans have a website where they can buy racist swag.
They got it all, Zum…
Milwaukee Braves had the guy on the left sleeve iirc.
Continued in Atlanta…
Copied and pasted from a NY paper…
The NBA this year will bestow its first ever Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion awards for “pursuing social justice, and upholding the NBA’s values of equality, respect and inclusion.”
And, as announced last week, the inaugural award has been won by … Stephen Curry!
Curry’s areas of social interests don’t include his own backyard.
It’s all a con.
In January, NBA superstar Stephen Curry and his wife Ayesha, an influencer, expressed their public dismay in an attempt to kill a plan to build a three-story townhouse community near their $30 million mansion in fabulous Atherton, Calif.
“Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose to live in Atherton” complained the Currys.
One wonders if he’s also eligible for the Not in My Neighborhood medal. Or as Eastern European immigrant and movie mogul Sam Goldwyn is alleged to have said, “Include me out.”
They do lot of stuff for Oakland kids. NIMBY Atherton story was reported locally too, they didn’t hide behind it…exclusive neighborhood, always has been.
He and his wife still come to Oakland to sponsor various programs. Now that you mention it, though, I don’t recall seeing his little kids appearing with them, as they always used to in the old days. Safety first, maybe.
I have a yard sign opposing a bike lane in my neighborhood. The proposal is an incredibly moronic bit of central planning from the commissariat, so I’ve quite enjoyed playing NIMBY for the first time.
Ha! You’re the guy mentioned in this article!
Circa 80-87, when I was a rr brakeman, I lived some blocks west of this little paradise, near the end of Berkeley Way. I was closer to the hookers on University and the drug dealers.
As to the Hopkins bike lane, I have no opinion.
Long article. We are just around the corner from the Monterey Market. Won’t bother with all the cons. Fifty years on, Berkeley’s still futile obsession with engineering the environment to reduce car usage is pathetic.
I used to believe Berkeley deliberately left potholes in the streets to control traffic speed. I still think it’s a great place to be if you aren’t in a hurry.
The Post?
Yes, Chuck…
Loo, right on about Rice and Lynn. Thought at the time the 2 of them would lead the Sox for many years, and you’re right about the sick numbers in the mid-70s. Unfortunately, Freddie got a reputation in Beantown for being a too laid back California kind of guy. One of the most natural ball players I’d seen.
I think Rice missed the World Series vs. Reds due to an injury.
Yes, he did. That was a great Series. *Might have* gone Boston’s way if Rice had been there, who knows….
Interesting moment in that Bee Gees documentary on CNN. Disco Demolition Night at that White Sox game was seen by a lot of African Americans and gay people as a kind of Nazi book-burning event. A Black guy who was an usher at that game says “I saw people bringing Stevie Wonder albums and other albums of Black artists who weren’t disco. The Demolition Night seemed like a backlash against Blacks and gays gaining inclusion in society,” because that’s who were a lot of the fans of disco. Coming at the end of the 1970s, and heading into the Reagan years, I hadn’t thought of it that way.
That Bee Gees documentary, “How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?,” is interesting, poignant, and entertaining.
I’m a huge fan of music-related films of all kinds.
Saw that somewhere else, Zumie re the disco demolition being some kind of racist thing but that never crossed my mind. Being of the Ted Nugent/Blur Oyster Cult side of things, it was more the coke-dealing douchebag crowd that I didn’t care for.
Loved 70s funk. Hated disco.
I gotta admit, I was a big fan of Donna Summer.
IMO, the long play uber-sensual “I Feel Love” track by Donna and written/engineered by Moroder is a ’70s classic…
After exploding jagged shards of vinyl records all over the outfield, there was never a chance that the second game of that White Sox double-header was going to get played. It didn’t help that thousands of people stormed the field for some reason. I guess to stomp on pieces of vinyl records, to help with the demolition. The Sox, of course, forfeited the second game.
Maybe I was naive about the disco thing at that time, but I saw that protest as a demonstration not so much against the music of the time but the *life style* of supposed shallow meaningless consumerism that marked the disco era. I have a cousin who won a disco dance contest on TV. What a tool he was. But a lot of the music itself was quite good; how can you not bob your head and move your feet to Thelma Houston’s Don’t Leave Me This Way…. even Blondie and Talking Heads incorporated disco beats into many of their late ’70s songs. If that demonstration was a racist thing, that went right past me….
Hated discos.
Love the music to this day…
The beer swilling American masses protesting consumerism?
Saturday morning Bowling on ABC was a lot of times down to 2 of my favorites Dick Weber&Billy Hardwick they always were entertaining great rivals..
K&K don’t seem to know that catchers can still block the plate, if they have the ball.
That was a terrific play by Bailey.
A lot going on that inning.
What a great block of the plate by Bailey! Kid is so good at everything and now gunning a runner out at 1st crazy good!
Catchers can block the plate if they have the ball, or if the direction of the throw takes them into the basepath (which is ump’s interpretation.)
The runner can collide with the catcher in both of those two situations, I think.
If the catcher is illegally blocking the plate, the runner is expected to not collide, because the ump is supposed to call the runner automatically safe. The umps blow that call sometimes, though, which adds to the confusion.
The bottom line, though, is catchers and runners are getting far less injuries from collisions, and that’s a good thing. And less collisions at second base is a good thing.
That’s twice Haniger rolled over a grounder to the left side on an outside pitch.
He’s hit a few of those for line drive hits to left lately, too. The Haniger chart I posted the other day shows that he’s hit the ball to the right side a lot this year.
12 LOB in 5.2?
11
I used to watch Saturday bowling also but I can’t remember anyone who was involved. That and Soul Train.
zzzz…4 hits all night and Sabol is 2-2. Teammates 2-21. More walks 7 than Ks 6.
“I used to watch Saturday bowling also but I can’t remember anyone who was involved.”
I remember the left-handed nerdy-looking Earl Anthony. I’d root for him to win. I haven’t watched bowling in about 45 years, though. Back then, there weren’t a huge amount of sports options on TV.
Chris Schenkel and Nelson Burton, Jr. at the mikes — ah, a Saturday afternoon right before Wide World of Sports.
“Welcome to Blue Collar Lanes in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA …”.
I think you could hear the clinking of the Rolling Rock bottles from the Bar in the background…
There was that NBC Saturday baseball game of the week, that the Giants were almost never on.
The Giants had a few games on SF station KTVU, but at our house in the Central Valley, even after turning the roof attenna rotation button to the West, the station came in a little snowy for us. Trying to see the white baseball on a snowy TV screen was a challenge.
Anytime Los Gigantes were on the Game of the Week, was like Christmas came early…
Haniger was a rally-killer tonight.
Pete Weber and marshall Holman are the only guys I can come up with. Weber was a laugh riot.
Besides the old school bowling 🎳, there was also Roller Derby with the Bay Bombers,Charlie O’Connell,The blonde Amazon Joanie Weston, teammates and bad asses.Then u had Walt Harris with as the announcer in Wrestling with Ray Stevens,Pat Patterson,Pepper Gomez either the cast iron stomach,Bearcat Wright,Kenji Sabuya ( sleeper hold lol then wake the opponent back out of it with a chop behind his neck more laughs)Haystack Calhoun,Andre the Giant,Ray the flying Basteen,Hawaiian dude Peter Maholva? It was good dumb entertainment back as a kid..
Saw Roller Derby, Wrestling, an NBA finals game, the Live Rust Neil Young concert, Black Sabbath and Van Halen at the Cow Palace.
I had a ticket to that Neil Young concert, but my ride fell through, and I couldn’t go. Tough thing to accept at the time. Fortunately the concert produced a concert film and live album. And later in life I saw Neil in concert many times.
More exciting than this game.
I used to love watching Johnny Petraglia, a lefty, bowl on those Saturday shows on ABC. The guy had a left handed hook that was incredible — seemed like the ball almost started out halfway in the left gutter, then right near the pins hung a complete right turn, right into the pocket. Boom ! Strike!
Incredible…
Johnny rides a final strike into the sunset !…
Youtube is amazing…
And Mark Roth had an incredible hook torquing the ball so hard he would bloody his thumb up a lot..
Well one thing if Will Bednar can become anything special like his brother we might have another gem for the staff in a few years..
In the Purell world we’re living in, would you go to a bowling alley and use some random ball that fit your fingers?
I wouldn’t…
Oh no way Loo would I use some chewed up bowling ball from the racks.!
Especially true to never wearing house bowling shoes with that radioactive chemicals they spray in the shoes, just nauseating when u walked by the front desk gagging away🤮
Never crossed my mind in 1970.
There was no such thing as germs back then…
I didn’t even read this.
All I know is that I’m so tired of it.
No matter who or what it supports or doesn’t…
https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/dodgers-upset-clayton-kershaw-with-pride-night-fiasco/
You missed this great line:
“In perhaps the response to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash”
🤣And it’s not even a misprint!
Can’t win for trying, but the Giants went through all this stuff when they were the first team to do an AIDS benefit game in 1994. A pitcher didn’t want to participate (Mark someone) and was castigated by the media and dumped by the Giants. He sucked anyway iirc.
Just waiting for the Rangers to have White Power day . . .
Maybe someone smarter than me can tell me the rationale for “opening” with Brebbia for 2/3rds of the 1st inning before bringing in Manaea. I’m not a fan of “openers” anyway, but yesterday’s pitching strategy made no sense to me. Is it psychological? Do they think Manaea will do better “in relief” than starting, even though he is a starter (and IMO a good one) and even if he enters the game in the 1st inning anyway? Asking for a friend…