More Cow Bell
Keeping Cobb cobbled together for an entire season was always going to be a chore. Are we down to 1 reliable starting pitcher? Methinks we need more.
I’m off to San Diego with TBO.
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“T-BO” when he’s famous.
Good luck at Del Mar!
The Giants the last couple games decided to go on vacation with Flav to the Pacific Northwest.
Was quite surprised to see Luciano get moved up right after seeing him. But it makes sense to see him produce at maybe a more advantageous AAA level. Have a great remainder of vaca…
Enjoy Del Mar Flav. Looking forward to return of Britney Eurton and Andie B. etc.
Ah Cobb didn’t have usual command, gonna happen once in a while.
AZ and Phils lost too.
Giants pitching still Top 4 NL for runs allowed per game, #1 fewest BBs, 4th Ks.
It’s offense of everyone not named Wilmet that is sliding downhill. 10th NL for BA, 8-8-9 for OB slugging OPS. They don’t steal bases and the light hitting middle IF flat out sucks at the plate. Time for change in plan and it has to be better than calling up more prospects from Sac.
I’ll snap a pic of her down at the paddock for ya
Ha, thanks!
Or up her dress…
Speaking of cowbell, RIP Tony Bennett. Mom’s wheelhouse that’s for sure.
RIP Tony, 96 is a damn good run. Saw him and Lady Gaga do a few tunes together in New Orleans a few years ago.
Yeah, dude could still sing well into his 90s. Pretty amazing.
Bennett Was a fantastic local talent. I never bought any of his records but I did enjoy his stuff.
For you, Zumie. Almost sorry to post this, but Chuck Berry’s face is just too funny. I’m into strange and different things, but I will never understand this. What coud have been a memorable performance becomes well, a cat thrown in a dryer. During the next song, the sound engineer cut her mic.
Yoko O-no, the polar opposite of Tony Bennett. Look up ‘caterwaul’ and you will see her picture.
Would like to hear zumiee’s take on that lady yoko ono
The bottom line on Yoko, to me, is that she helped make John a better person. She helped John learn to respect women as equals to men. And he and she loved each other very much.
One of things John admired about her was her absolute fearlessness. She just didn’t care if people made fun of her, or were hostile about her.
I’m as skeptical of any artistic talent in her as anyone, but I’ll always appreciate what she did for John as a person.
John got cheated out of the 2nd half of his life by an assassin. It would have been great to see the person he would have been in those years.
Musically, he had already accomplished so much, and who knows what else he might have done. Maybe transitioned into different things musically, like Paul Simon did. We’ll never know.
Zummiee, everything you said is probably true but she irritated me to no end. In John she had the perfect vessel for notoriety.
Outstanding post. Agree with everything you said.
Also I should mention Yoko helped John become a better father, to their son Sean, and to his son Julian that he had with Cynthia.
One of the most heartbreaking things about losing John is Julian losing his father when his father had finally become a real dad.
John wrote some beautiful love songs for Yoko. This is one of my favorites:
View from the other side.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance
Actual glimpse of the avant garde back then.
Yeah, John was abusive. He was a shitty father. All that may be true, but Yoko’s ‘singing’ was awful and pointless. There’s avante garde and there’s just flat awful screeching.
And I think the Pop-O-Pies are good. I dig Primus. Zappa. And Sean’s work with Les Claypool is epic.
Zappa was avant garde? His idol Nicolas Slonimsky may have been, but Zappa was just an unusual rock star. Unpleasant as her singing was, no one would give a shit about that lifeless jam between John and Chuck B if she hadn’t been there.
Zappa was pretty much the definition of avante garde when he started with the Mothers. No one anywhere was doing anything remotely like Zappa. Wish I was around back then.
As far as Yoko goes, she certainly didn’t make it more enjoyable. Her work with her husband seemed to consist of trying to overshadow whatever he was doing at any given time.
Zappa was pretty much the definition of a teenage notion of avant garde. Wiki pages may still call him avant garde. But that’s wiki. I remember when I first looked at Roberto Clemente’s wiki page, it claimed that he stole home 19 times in his career. I ain’t no musicologist, but when I listen to Zappa I often hear how insistently he avoided the blues, unlike his pal Captain Beefheart. Zappa famously dissed his contemporaries, includiing Hendrix, who in his view mainly just played the blues. So Zappa sounded unique.
Early 20th century, N Slonimsky used a typewriter as percussion in a chamber piece and a cat, which the musician played by yanking its tail, as a brief soloist.
Chuck’s swollen balls expressions were the best part of the video..
Yoko Ono is a legend in her own mind!
The rest of us wished we were deaf!!!
Reds rebound to gain split of series. Here’s hoping they stay hot vs. DBacks they host this weekend. Giants handled Elly pretty well all things considered.
Marichal in his prime wouldn’t have won yesterday since Giants had 1 hit/0 runs through 8.
Hope Wade Jr and Davis are OK and they can hit better in DC against lowly Nats.
And Conforto continues to rake on road.
“Unpleasant as her singing was, no one would give a shit about that lifeless jam between John and Chuck B if she hadn’t been there.”
Yeah, John had bored of performing live by then. He liked Yoko adding something unusual to the performance, whether the audience liked it or not..
John did seem to enjoy the rooftop Beatle concert a lot. But he knew it was a one-off.
I doubt John would have ever toured again.
George was done with concerts, too, other than charity benefits. I think John would have continued to do the occasional charity benefit performance.
They all seemed to enjoy the rooftop concert.
The way I always enjoyed the last day of school.
I don’t know how anyone can hold a grudge against Yoko after 12/8/80…
Appearing on the Mike Douglas Show together may have been part of Lennon’s settlement of Chuck’s copyright claim against him. In the official version of the performances, Chuck Berry shows some life during Johnny B Goode.
Yeah, John was sued over the use of the line “Here come ol’ Flat Top” in “Come Together.” That’s a line from a Berry song.
“Come Together” was one of John’s favorite Beatle songs. Ringo has said it’s one of his favorites, too.
He took a lot more than one lyric line. Listen to Chuck Berry’s You Can’t Catch Me and imagine it at a slower tempo. But they’re both great songs.
From what I’ve read, Lennon was going to tour for the Double Fantasy album because the sales were slow.
George toured with Clapton in the 90s and didn’t he tour with the Traveling Wilburys?
I think George did a few shows with Clapton in Japan. Something like that.
I don’t think there were any Wilbury concerts.
MLB.COM lists trade proposals for 9 teams who would have interest in Ohtani…
GIANTS PROPOSAL
Giants get: Shohei Ohtani
Angels get: SS Marco Luciano (Giants No. 2 prospect, No. 15 overall), LHP Carson Whisenhunt (Giants No. 4 prospect, No. 93 overall), OF Heliot Ramos (Giants No. 18 prospect), C Joey Bart, DH Joc Pederson
After the Giants missed out on Aaron Judge and Carlos Correa this past offseason, the general consensus was that they had a solid roster at their disposal, but they needed a superstar. With San Francisco in possession of the top National League Wild Card spot and 1 1/2 games out of first place in the NL West entering play on Wednesday, that largely remains true.
Who better than Ohtani to provide that superstar factor?
The Giants have been buyers at the Trade Deadline once during Farhan Zaidi’s tenure as president of baseball operations — in 2021 — and they made a splash by acquiring Kris Bryant from the Cubs that year. That signals that the team isn’t opposed to dealing for a rental, but Ohtani’s price figures to be in another stratosphere.
This package might not be enough to convince the Angels to part ways with their two-way superstar, but it’s certainly a start. Ramos hasn’t been able to carve out his place in the Giants’ crowded outfield mix, while Luciano is close to Major League ready after his recent promotion to Triple-A Sacramento. Whisenhunt has risen quickly through the Giants’ system since being selected in the second round of the 2022 Draft.
It’s hard to imagine San Francisco giving up three of its Top 30 prospects — and a handful of proven contributors at the big league level — for two months of Ohtani. But any team that acquires Ohtani at the Deadline may also get a head start on locking him in on a long-term contract in the offseason, so it’s possible that no price is too high when it comes to that kind of generational talent. – Sonja Chen
Intriguing!
Kris Bryant was exactly the player the Giants needed in 21, although it didn’t work out perfectly. They traded Alexander Canario and Caleb Kilian to get him. This season we don’t have two aces in the rotation and Buster Posey leading a squad of resurgent vets. To hell with the superhero fantasy. Get some pitching, don’t sell the farm for it.
Thumbs down on that entire spiel…
This. the idea they “get a head start on locking him in” is puro nonsense. No way he doesn’t go full on into free agency open to highest bidder and signing best contract in history. It will be totally open season with everything (opt outs bonuses yada yada) on table.
And for another, as LH (his real value going forward) he could pick more than few better places to hit in.
Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays both hit their first ML homer of Warren Spahn.
Koufax only hit one more after that…
“I don’t know how anyone can hold a grudge against Yoko after 12/8/80…”
Yeah, the attitude, overall, towards her softened after that.
A lot of people forget how hostile Beatles fans were towards Linda McCartney for several years. She was deemed “not pretty enough” by a lot of fans.
The four Beatles all eventually had solid good marriages. John and Yoko, Paul and Linda, George and Olivia, and Ringo and Barbara Bach.
OTOH, the beloved Jackie Kennedy was vilified by many for marrying Onassis just shy of 5 years after the assassination of JFK…
Yes, even though that marriage in Oct ’68 was completely understandable. History is replete with royal marriages of convenience and of promoting peace/security; she was American royalty. After RFK was murdered earlier that year, she desperately felt she needed to get away from a crazy US and get that added security for herself and her young kids, despite having secret service protection. For Onassis, he got the class by marriage in exchange for some millions that he wouldn’t miss, class that he couldn’t get otherwise, though he was filthy rich. It didn’t last long, but served it’s purpose for her sake given the time and circumstances…
Yeah, the general public tends to feel like they need to give their approval or disapproval to celebrities’ relationship choices.
I admit I was negative about Neil Young divorcing his wife Pegi and marrying Darryl Hannah. But, hey, it’s none of my business. And Neil and Darryl seem very happy together.
David Crosby said some negative things about Neil’s relationship with Darryl and Neil ended his friendship with David. David tried to patch things up but Neil wasn’t having it.
My theory on Crosby’s statements is that he was negative about Hannah accusing Jackson Browne of physical abuse of her. Browne has totally denied the allegations but it hurt his reputation for a while.
David believed Browne’s version of events.
The Kennedy and Hannah stories intersected when Kennedy, Jr. became Hannah’s boyfriend after she left Browne.
JFK, Jr.
Not the unhinged RFK, Jr.
I saw a few snippets of RFK, Jr speaking before that crazy Congressional hearing yesterday. OMG, he looked and sounded like he was on something. I know he’s had lifelong drug troubles, but seriously. If he was NOT on something during that hearing, that’s even scarier…
I can barely understand him. He has a raspy voice. I Googled it and he has some sort of disease called Spasmodic dysphonia. “It is a chronic neurological voice disorder (and a focal laryngeal dystonia). It results in involuntary spasms of the muscles that open or close the vocal folds, causing a voice that presents with breaks and strained/strangled quality or breathy quality, depending on the type of spasmodic dysphonia (adductor or abductor).”
WTF? Never heard of it . . . but he has it.
If his last name was not Kennedy, nobody would be paying any attention to him, just another anti-vaxx conspiracy nut…
It’s them inbred Kennedys.
Ethyl Kennedy’s lineage had no link to the Kennedy’s. RFK’s just an over privileged asshole. Out of law school he got a job as an ADA in Manhattan becz he’s a Kennedy and then had to resign when he failed the bar exam. Then he got busted for possession of heroin. Helluva career start. But no problem — he’s a Kennedy.
Mike Smith wins first one at DM! Might have gotten away with cutting off horse to his right with white blinkers to find room to beat Ramon Vasquez #7.
Ms. Andie stunning red dress.
LaMonte Wade Jr. (L) 1B
Joc Pederson (L) DH
J.D. Davis (R) 3B
Michael Conforto (L) RF
Mike Yastrzemski (L) CF
Patrick Bailey (S) C
Blake Sabol (L) LF
Brett Wisely (L) 2B
Casey Schmitt (R) SS
P: Alex Wood (L)
About best they can put out there.
btw I’m always amazed about stuff you remember about the older guys, like Eddie Bressoud and Lindsey Nelson, he of wild sportscoats, from 60 years ago.
At the game, goddamn Wood fucking sucks.
JOC!!!
wow what a play by Bailey.
Don’t see that too often, pick off 3b.
Getting beat by a bunch of no-names and now 3 caught lookings.
Need the big knock now.
Nice AB from Sabol.
Oh boy. If anyone is due, it’s Schmitt
Fuck. Bring up Luciano. He can’t do worse than 0-July.
The Reds are stomping the D-Backs.
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Hurt, tired, road-weary, and sucking again.
Giants leakin’ oil with these starters. They need a starting arm…
The Dodgers didn’t have much trouble with the Bochy Rangers tonight.
Hey AK, I see your man Jaylin Davis was recently released and is now out there for the picking….
Despite losing three in a row, the Giants are currently tied for the top wild card spot.
Not sure I’ve ever seen this shot of the Mays catch from this angle…
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=625733709671713&set=a.515712370673848
oh cool shot.
Hey, Nam women vs. US soccer big story? Watched last 15 minutes of first half (began 6 PM our local time) and commentators said they frustrated US offense. Score was 1-0 then Nam goalie stopped penalty shot by Alex Morgan. US scored later to lead 2-0 at half and “only” won 3-0. US held them without shot on goal and controlled ball most of what I saw.
Re John & Yoko, who can forget the Two Virgins album cover?
In the recently released Get Back documentary, there’s a moment where Paul back then says “Everything John does is extremes.”