Candlestick
Got this email yesterday. I’m guessing lots of you guys would like to contribute to this:
Hi,
I am the editor for a new book about Candlestick Park, which will be the latest in McFarland Publishing’s Historic Ballparks series.
We are soliciting personal memories of the park from fans (plus media, team employees, and former players, too) for possible inclusion in the book. It looks like you have a pretty thriving community going at OneFlapDown77, and probably a lot of people who would have some good memories to share.
We have created a very simple website where we can collect these memories. Is there a way I can share that with the people who post on your site
Here is the address for our site:
https://www.candlestickparkmemories.com/
Happy to answer any questions you might have.
Thank you very much,
James Forr
Columbia, MO
ph: (814) 360-8320
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Wood and Webb to start rest of weekend. Guys not named Manaea (all 7of them) pitched pretty well last night and only worked inning each, so Kap should have arms ready to roll. Only Doval gave up a run and at least he worked out of jam.
I’m sure in one of his recent starts Brebbia worked 2 innings. will look it up on gamelogs.
At b-ball clinic last night so only caught up on radio as Giants were down 4-2 and began to rally. Loo is right, Miller is wonderful, especially on radio. would have loved to have caught him during the Dogs baserunning misadventure, though Flemms on TV was pretty bewildered too.
Manaea got burned on a two out broken bat bloop and a good guess on the up and in fastball. He’s cut down on the walks and looked better of late. The Dodgers do have a great offense.
Did you see the Brisbee article on the Giants’ pen? Very good analysis and good reading for anyone who doubts just how sharp the management of this team is. Or who’s worried that the pen is being overtaxed.
Ah thanks James. Manaea tends to sail along and then unravel.
re: Brisbee, I’ll check that one out. He’s a little too pollyanna for my tastes and I don’t find his humor engaging but he’s often right about stuff and less edgier than Baggs. fwiw I’ve put “meh” on 80% of what he’s written last few years, to no avail.
This one even has a line that nearly made me laugh. Brisbee is a true analytics first guy, and his takes almost always align with my own. He occasionally panders to the “but baseball is a human endeavor!” mob, but you can tell he’s not being sincere on those occasions.
Fair enough. My only worry right now is that SF fans (and Brisbee) are overheating their expectations for all the young players that have finally come to be part of everyday experience on ML roster. I guess most fanbases can’t wait for next prospects to arrive.
Will Casey Schmitt ultimately be more of a Chris Speier comp—slightly below average hitter who excels in the field and can still have long productive career?
Like me, he hedges all of his claims. His over the top energy and enthusiasm may sometimes mask that.
I’ll be unanalytical about Schmitt. Last night he made just about as terrible an error as you can make. Another player would have been crucified after the Giants lost. Instead, his fuck up was just part of the overall craziness of the play in a Giants win. He’s going to stick.
I saw play from Dodger feed this morning, announcer initially said Schmitt made bad throw, eventually corrected himself, and summed it all up as “What a circus!”
Brebbia opened with 2 shutout innings last Saturday vs. Cubs, the near no-no Hendricks game.
Flemming had a brainfart moment like Mookie twice last night( definitely wearing the goat horns), he was ready to go to a commercial break after a Giant made an out but it was only the second out,and Estes said well not yet Dave they still have Estrada coming up.. He kinda shrugged it off , oh yeah in baseball you do get 3 outs but you could tell he was rattled by his blunder…
I had know idea Dave Flemming played baseball professionally?
He pitched for Seattle as a starter and went 17-10(92) 12-5 (93) overall career 38-32 so 2 good years before he lost it, not bad..
Eddie Munster Wood goes today but if he can’t go long just coming back, but who will eat up the long role in relief? Maybe 10 day for Flores who was getting an MRI on his foot/toe and bring back Winn?
That’s not David B Flemming. May partly explain why Jon Miller often comically stresses the B tho.
Yeah your right Xoot, The B stands for Brainfart for me.I only saw Dave Flemming but no picture, then I looked more and found the Dave Flemming dude and he was a lefty pitcher geez 🙄.Yeah it would of been hard to believe are baby face broadcaster could ever pitch in the Show..
come on. How did you fall for that, Kat?
That is pretty cool. What a come back last night!!! I had almost given up. My oldest went to bed saying we always struggle against rookie first time pitchers and that is what they did. The Flores and Schmitt big hits were awesome. I have been very impressed with Matos. As a 21 year old, his plate presence is unbelievable. Heliot could learn so much but maybe Matos is just a natural born big leaguer…
This should surprise no one. That’s a huge la advantage.
Still buzzing at what a great game that was last night!
I submitted a memory of being at the Brian Johnson game!
“Loo is right, Miller is wonderful, especially on radio. would have loved to have caught him during the Dogs baserunning misadventure, though Flemms on TV was pretty bewildered too.”
I heard a replay of Miller’s call of the play, online, and he summed up the whole play this way:
“That was a disgrace!”
Flemming summed up the play well, too:
“All hell broke loose.”
Yeah found the twitter replay. Just enjoy Miller on radio more than anyone else.
@James I read the Brisbee bullpen column in Athletic, one of his best and thanks for tip. And line with Yabu in it was pretty funny. Noticeable uptick in positive comments overall on the site.
The Dodger rookie starting pitcher today has been pitching like Nolan Ryan in his prime.
Perhaps he’s due for a mediocre or bad performance.
Regarding BF’s post, Schmitt experienced a Candlestickian moment last night.
The only video link I could find that has Miller’s call of the infamous play is on KNBR’s Facebook page:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0KNjVKJmWczasDSNvEuUnQoo3GxgrQiLmNQDB94JiCCMyDSZuNeD43ZX8rg5xk2Xel&id=100064427601927
You have to click off the mute on the audio.
Miller:
“It ended up being a Greek tragedy.” lulz
Junis’ throw: lulz
A Greek tragedy is hysterical!
Betts’ baserunning: lulz
How’s this look in the score card for fans and official scorers…
Your typical 5-1-9-6-4-2-1 putout!!!!!!!
Crazy and disgraceful, but thanks Mookie you screwed up twice in this game running into outs..
Possibly the first 5-1-9-6-4-2-1 in MLB history!
I think this Twitter link goes to Miller’s call of the play:https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1669958892951044096/mediaviewer
Wilson Pickett was retired on a 6-3-4-5-7-8-9…
Isn’t that series beautiful? Just move that one number there.
oh classic from those early Atlantic LPs. Man those were good lot of underrated tunes that never made it as big as the hits.
Though apparently no one could stand to work with him in studio.
Stax writers
“Tomlinson missed a total of 12 calls behind the plate Friday, calling two balls on batters that actually were strikes and 10 strikes that in fact were balls. His 86-percent called strike accuracy during the game was two percent lower than the league average, and his calls on the night resulted in an overall favor of plus-2.44 runs for Los Angeles.
Per Umpire Scorecards, favor metrics represent the impact of an umpire on a team’s or game’s expected runs. Friday night’s 2.44 runs in favor of the Dodgers is the fourth-largest gap of the season in favor of a home team, behind umpire Edwin Moscoso’s 2.45 runs in favor of the San Diego Padres on Thursday, CB Bucknor’s 2.63 runs in the Texas Rangers’ favor April 1 and Lance Barksdale’s 3.17 runs in favor of the Kansas City Royals on May 26.”
When the Giants saw that the ump was giving Sheehan that high pitch for a strike, they kind of lost their plate discipline for a while.
It’ll be interesting to see how Sheehan does without such a favorable ump for his high fastball.
A takeaway from that article is that umps average less than 90% accuracy on ball and strike calls. That’s totally unacceptable.
I’m impressed with how well major leaguers know the strike zone. Just about every blown call gets a little body language reaction from the player.
The article disagrees with the 94% and 95% numbers posted earlier by Xoot. I don’t know why this other article has a different number.
But still, is 95% acceptable? I don’t think so, given the technology help available.
The text you posted relied in large part on the daily report I posted. Nits don’t matter when you’re talking about an obviously large margin of error that almost entirely favors one team. Now THAT is unacceptable. But the bots are coming.
Those daily Twitter ump reports are worth a quick scroll every a.m. Hell sometimes it’s possible to sound informed.
“When I peaked up at [Busch], I saw a whole bunch of white. It happened really fast,” Betts said. “I just messed it up.”
“I saw the play wrong,” Betts said. “It was bad timing. We hadn’t been playing great — we’ve been playing alright, but things just haven’t fallen our way. It was just another one of those things that kicked us while we’re down. I gotta be smarter in that situation.”
So my short joyous reference to Bloomsday yesterday touched no one? Doesn’t Pawlie stop by here anymore? Trump. It’s all trump’s fault.
Ah well. Ineluctable something or other.
A Joyce fanatic friend does an annual Bloomsday post:
http://www.pseudopodium.org/
Yeah I’ve come across Ray Davis.
In fact I may have met him at a party or two in a converted industrial space on 10th St., near Dwight, circa 89-90. An art history prof was the host. She was histrionic. It’s funny, the thing I remember most about the big party was the umbrage of a friend, another prof, whose little cactus in a pot house-warming gift didn’t as they say spark joy. I also remember thinking, man, I can do without this shit.
I probably know the Art History prof from my days managing the Art History/Classics Graduate Service. I’m guessing Ray might’ve sympathized with your I can live without this sentiments.
She founded the department of Visual Culture at UCD.
I’m sure I’ve come across stuff he’s written on Raymond Chandler.
They may have backed down from that dept’l name. Ha.
I’ll admit, that did not ring a bell. My daughter’s UCD thesis adviser’s partner is an emerita UCB Art History prof, but the latter joined the faculty after 89-90. Whew, complicated …. Gimme another clue and I’ll have it, I’m sure!
oh, the woman’s name is Irit Rogov. Many of her anecdotes ended: “EET wuz a NIGHT MARE!” That became a running joke around our household in the early days.
Ah, ok. She was UCD faculty only. Did not run across her. The UCB connection is likely TJ Clark and Courtauld.
My wife was a new Berkeley phd prof at ucd eng, I was a nearly forty year old ucd law student, but we still spent a lot of time in Berkeley, where we’d met (the city, not the Univ). Is your ucd daughter a scientist?
Yep, now working at CARB. She may yet be a 40 year old law school student, assuming the AI doesn’t take over the field.
There’ll be a better backstop by then.
“This year, the Dodgers have installed strobe lights for every run they score, a fun piece of in-stadium atmosphere.
But on Martinez’s double, the lights flashed on and off during the play. Nobody scored, but it was a shocking sight and Kapler took the field to express his frustrations to the umpiring crew.
When Crawford cut off the throw in from the outfield, he couldn’t see the ball. Kapler called the situation “suboptimal.””
It’s also cool this weekend to not have to see, or have Giants pitchers deal with, Max Muncy.
And most of all not let him bear us every fuckin game…
beat that is…
He is as big as a bear.
1. LaMonte Wade Jr. (L) 1B
2. Joc Pederson (L) DH
3. Thairo Estrada (R) 2B
4. Michael Conforto (L) LF
5. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
6. Luis Matos (R) CF
7. Patrick Bailey (S) C
8. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
9. Casey Schmitt (R) 3B
P: Alex Wood (L)
We need something from Joc, Conforto, and Yaz tonight. It can’t just be a bunch of strike outs.
Damn. Brebbia sure has exceeded all my expectations. He’s tough. Hope he heals.
Brebbia and wilmet on IL? who replaced them?
Wood and Beck…
Beck recalled and Wood takes the other roster spot. Brebbia out 4-8 weeks per Slush.
Hope Mr. Ed doesn’t develop laminitis…
“Alex has been pretty vocal”…um yeah for a guy who has ERA just under 5.00
It was weird in the pregame show how they all talked about Brebbia having a strain, but they never said where the strain was.
Interesting to read that David Freese declined being appointed to the Cardinals hall of fame, more or less saying that he didn’t feel he is worthy of such an honor. You don’t see that too often…
he’s got anxiety issues. He should have told them before the vote that he didn’t want to do this publicly.
Yes…
Alex Wood always looks like he’s pitching too hard in Dodger Stadium. Like he’s trying to hide something.
dude. Same take. Are you reading my mind or something?
Looks like me and San Dawg are playing golf together July 4th and then watching fireworks from the hill at my house with my daughter and her friends who will be smoking a joint. Looking forward to it.
Matos has a powerful physique almost like cespedes but he’s lithe and quick and fast. But best of all he’s smart.
And Lamont is an AS.
Let’s go!!!!!!!!!!!
No weird record for you, skinhead.
LaBomb!
Third time through the order and they’re on him.
Hey, Wood discovers it’s easy to go 5 when you’re pitching well.
Matos is not intimidated. Let him play.
Another Craw ribbie!
First swing back yeow.
YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
GS J.D.!
Grand salami.
own·age
nounINFORMAL•US
the action or fact of utterly defeating an opponent or rival.
This is fun.
Wont last, but Matos has an OBP of over .600 . . . Dude still hasn’t struck out yet in 3 games. Sheesh, in today’s game that’s unfuckingbelievable.
11-zilch!
This is almost as exciting as golf!
12-zilch!
A Big Sweaty flashback!
Hmmm. I think I lost track of time during the pandemic.
Even Villar gets a hit!
Will share first Candlestick experience in different thread. Don’t want to jinx Giants amidst their current hot streak. Suffice to say 1st half of month June boon, not June swoon. 10-4 record. Keep it rolling.
Courtesy of Macdog . . . 13-zilch! 14-zilch! 15-zilch! We’ll return after station identification . . .
And Matos OBP now at .615!
Unreal.
I missed it. Why did the bums in this game replace one of the best 1B with a guy who doesn’t know the position?
Resting Freeman for the day game tomorrow.
Can’t wait to read the LA Times tomorrow. lmao
Beat the crap out of L.A.!
The D-Backs game is on FS1.
2-2 at the moment.
The only scene better than this (or at least as good), was when Sonny beat the shit out of Carlo with the garbage can lid. Love this movie. Willie’s favorite too I believe.
Tied with LA in the LC…
Isn’t it fine to feel so content after watching a baseball game. I need to step outside and take a look at the sunset now.
“A 15-run drubbing is the Dodgers’ worst shutout loss ever at Dodger Stadium, which is in its 62nd year of existence. Their only shutout loss more lopsided than this since moving to Los Angeles was an 18-0 loss to the Reds in Cincinnati on August 8, 1965.”