A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball

I’ve never been to Fenway. But many times over the course in my life I’ll be standing next to or near a wall, look up and think to myself “that looks about 37 feet high. Goddamn that’s high.”

What is Flap Nation’s experience with Fenway and The Green MONSTER?

Feels like we are gonna smoke these Boston fools.

It’s Winn. As in “all he does is…..”. I’m telling you, this dude is gonna be a solid #3 for us and possibly even a #2. And we are going to need him and any other available quality pitcher if we are going to keep running out this shit hitting offense. 3 runs? Yep, that’s all you get Winn, go make it happen.

20th in the league in bombs, 24th in SB’s. Once again, when faced with the question of “Would you rather be strong or fast?” we meekly answer “we shall be neither….”

Thursday: we scored 0 runs thru 6.

Friday: We scored 0 runs thru 8.

Saturday: we scored 1 run thru 9.

I mean, what the fuck? We are at home. We are facing shitty pitchers. And the offense literally is chortling balls.

Our pitchers deserve better.

Look, the Pirates aren’t very good. They are probably even worse than their 13-14 record. And we got shut down by a complete scrap heap nobody. But a win is a win. And man, that crowd was ROCKIN’ after Bailey hit that bomb.

Day 3 of the draft. Finally. Now is when Lynch and Shanny cook.

Love the Niners first round pick–Slick Rick. That dude is electric. People are going to compare him to Gray and that’s not fair. Gray was a reach at 3, he doesn’t have the skills of this dude. Personally, I wanted them to trade Deebo but I guess no one wanted him or maybe they saw what we all see– a dude who is going to keep getting injured as he gets older. Pearsall and Aiyuk are boys maybe there is still a plan to somehow move Samuel. Either way, even if they keep them both they are for sure losing 1 of them at the end of 2025 so why not add a stud like Rickey? We have nothing after Samuel and Aiyuk…..

If you liked Candlestick you’ll love tonight’s game. Cold and windy. If you’ve never been to a game at Oracle it can get just as cold as Candlestick at night when those winds get going. The ballpark structure minimizes it a bit compared to Candlestick but make no mistake it can get cold as fuck in that park on certain nights.

The Snell situation continues to get worse. At least it’s not his arm. And actually we lose all the games he pitches in so maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Either way, yuck.

Speaking of *yuck*, man, Soler looks like shit. I’m not totally against him swinging for the fences since that’s why we got him. But in order to hit a home run you are required to swing the bat. In the 7th inning with a chance to blast one with two mates on base he chose to become a spectator and watch the final 2 strikes whiz right past him, striking out on 3 pitches. That is not gonna fly, big boy.

Still, minus Snell our starting pitching staff actually looks a little bit better today so….yeah.

And now the pitching staff is feeding off itself. Hicks. Winn. The 2024 CY winner. Harrison and Snell will soon follow. With all 5 of those studs clicking in unison the pressure will come off the offense and it will begin to slowly coalesce. It’s not even May yet. The Giants have a chance to be great this year.

I have always liked this guy and had confidence in him. He looks like he’s turning a corner and that would be huge for us this season. I hope his arm can handle all those splitters he’s throwing. If it can, look out, we got a legit MLB starter in this rotation.

Hey guys– sorry we had a service interruption. I was responsible enough to keep the yearly payments on auto pay but not responsible enough to recognize when my card expired. Anyway, I was a big fan of seeing Melvin and Williams show a little fire yesterday. I don’t think we saw that in 4 years combined from Kapler.

And while I wish we had won the game we still split the series vs a team that was in the World Series last year. So despite our record i like where we are right now. Team is still coming together. Plenty of time left.

We bounced back from another Snell loss with a really nice win. They competed and kept playing hard till the end. What more can you ask for? Bailey was amazing. Do they technically not count that as a Splash hit since it landed dry in a boat?

Hicks and His Hot Licks get after it again today…..

I had something come up last night and I left the game 2-1 with Dbacks leading. Never made it back to the game. Fired up the box score today and I literally thought it was a mistake.

What happened?

Now that’s how you start a home stand. No torture. Leading the league in innings pitched again, Webb is well on his way to winning the CY this year.

That W probably made the trip back across the country a little easier to deal with. And with no days off we face Arizona tonight. At least they played a day game. But this has been some weird scheduling to start the season (to say the least).

10 game home stand starts now. We are facing 3 good teams but we’re at home, we’re only 3 games out of first place. Time to fuck.

Man, yesterday was tough. And I’m not talking about that boring Giants game. Why do all of their SP’s punch us out 10 times a game?

I’m talking about the Warriors. That was ugly. Straight up embarrassing. It was shocking how slow and clunky they looked. The Kings were playing at a different speed. Klay looked like a bewildered high school player out there. Steph got his pocket picked like an old lady in the park. And to make matters worse, I lost a round of golf to my main men in Sacramento, Eric and Hal. The dreaded beam has been lit.

Time is undefeated. There will be a transition that will be tough for many Warrior fans. Personally, I am excited about it. They have some useful, fun young guys. Time to embrace them and build around them.

Forgetting that the Marlins are terrible, that was an incredible win last night. Early on we watched the Marlins get way too much wood on Kyle’s fast yet predictable fastball. The other guy was striking us out like we were a parade of high school dropouts. And yet somehow, on the road, we dinked and dunked and singled and sacrificed our way to a win.

Look, we didn’t look like a very good baseball team. We were all-out to come back and barely beat one of the worst teams in the league.

But a satisfying win nonetheless…..

I guess we’ll just have to see about Snell. He’s got year’s like this in him. When he’s not winning a Cy Young he’s frankly very average. Still, he had no spring training and it’s not like we have any other options. Marlins tonight. I hate this Florida swing.

Watching the game with my dad, there was a moment he said “watching baseball is like watching grass grow.” I’ve personally never felt that way about the game. It’s possible the 2024 Giants offense might inspire that thought to pop into your head more frequently than if you were of a fan of a team that could hit.

Agree with everyone on the last thread about the old and tired players we have that need to go.

Headed back to Ca today. Looks like a lot of rain in front of me.

Weird start to the season. Why do we have to go all the way east this early in the season? At least we had a day off. Our synergy of shitiness continues as we drop ever so slightly to 26th and 26th in bombs/SBs.

The Masters got off to a fantastic start yesterday (excluding my boy Clark who stumbled to a +1). It’s so fun to see Tiger have a decent round (he still has to finish it and that means 23 holes for him today). I can’t imagine he can cobble those old and fused bones together enough to play 4 straight quality rounds in a row. But it’s fun to dream. It’s truly amazing what he’s doing off the tee. He’s driving the ball further than many of the other young bucks out there and he’s doing it with a fused ankle. He get no lower body push that’s all upper core that’s driving the ball. It’s astounding, really.

Would love to see the douchy Bryson stumble to like a 78 today. Or maybe save that for Sunday. Hate the guy.

Easily our best off season pick up. So far. With yesterday’s 3 stolen bags we have achieved balanced synergy. 25th in the league in bombs, 25th in the league in stolen bases. Konnichiwa.

Today I drive to Medford so will be out of pocket a little.

FYI Clark is winning the Masters.

Last year we were slow and weak. That bothered me greatly. You can’t be both and have a great year. For certain, if you are slow and weak you’ll be the most boring team in the league. That is not even debatable.

I haven’t checked the stats on this but it just feels like HR’s are down across baseball up to this point in the season. Would love it if someone could research that for me. We have 10 bombs this season which puts us at 14th place in MLB along with some other very good team (the Rangers, the Cubs, for instance). But we are DEAD LAST in the SB department. In fact, SF is tied with Flap Nation in that category. We both have 0 stolen bases this season.

I don’t mind being slow. But if SF is gonna be tied with us Flappers for last in the league it would be nice if we were blasting the ball out of the park with a little more frequency.

I’m not worried about Snell, it’s not like he got bombed.

What an ending! We got another close one that ended up the right way. Tonight we get the unveiling of Snell. Again, I am not super hot on this guy because he always seems he’s about a hair out of place of reverted back to #4 material. But if he’s remotely close to what he was last year he helps us a TON.

Eclipse day! I don’t really care about this I gotta be honest.

Oh baby, that one got ugly early. It started with Lee not seeing the first fly ball of the game and ended with me turning the game off some time in the 6th inning.

Low batting average alert: some of these guys are starting to go really really low. Yaz: .071. Chappy: .189. Soler: .212. Estrada: .171. Lee: .200.

And they could go even lower with Webby pitching. He’s not known for run support.

Really got to hand it to Jordan Hicks. Making this transition to starting pitcher so seamlessly has been fun to watch. Of course there is the constant and looming concern about whether a guy who throws that hard can pile on this many innings so quickly and not eventually blow out his arm. But that hasn’t happened yet so I’ll stop worrying about it.

I really like Keaton Winn. If he can somehow turn the corner and be a reliable #4 we are really gonna be cooking with gasoline at that point…..

Only quibble is that we are playing the Padres again. Also, playing at a .286 clip kinda sucks. But whatever! It’s Opening Day!

I think I’ve only been to one of these. 1999? Stick was packed that day.

Relax. I couldn’t be any more chill. We have a bunch of new players, who I like, who just got here. The team will jell, especially with the steady Melvin at the helm. Lots of teams are going to get swept by LA in their Latrine.

I agree with Snarkk and Bozo on the last thread. I am genuinely excited to go to some games this year. As long as we maintain our health we are going to be tough to deal with as the season wears on.

Yeah, if our ace is going to pitch like that the outcome is pretty much guaranteed. At least my boy Soler joined the par-tay. The game to take from them was the bullpen game. This dude Bobby Miller is a beast. Harrison gonna need his A+ game tonight for us to have a chance of not getting swept back to San Francisco.

That one just kinda felt like we were out of it from the first inning on. Disappointing but just one game. My boy Lee as well as Chapman and Conforto continue to rake. Would like to see Soler join the party at some point. Webb facing what appears to be a bullpen game from LA tonight.

Super busy yesterday, missed the entire game. Can someone explain why SF used this guy to start the game? Faulton whatever his name is. Why didn’t we use Mason Black or Carson Whisenhunt? Like, actual prospects. We aren’t in a division where we have the luxury of just gift wrapping wins for our villainous opponents.