It’s Over For Seattle
Disappointed to see Seattle leaving the party. I hate the Seahawks but it’s been really easy to root for the Mariners. And as much as I can’t stand the pompous “12th Man” it’s been refreshing to see the Mariner fans explode and enjoy themselves in so much delirium. I try not to think about the fact that those people are, you know, the same people.
Anyway, I guess I’d like to see Toronto win but just because they’re facing LA. I don’t really care for the Blue Jays team too much.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
My favorite team is the Giants, my second favorite team is the team playing the Dodgers. Go Canada.
well said. Y’all OK back there?
M’s had 2-0 lead then dropped 4 of next 5. Jays out hit them and M’s K too much. That said most impressive player on either team was Josh Naylor. He looks like Pablo out there yet he stole 30 bags vs. 2 CS. For the M’s he stole 19 bags/0 CS in 54 games with slash line .299/.342/.490.
I was in New Orleans and Clarksdale MS when the nor’easter hit here. We had some flooding and still have standing water around. But all is well, thanks for asking.
Did the Blues Trail up to Clarksdale. Pretty amazing how many of the old blues guys came out of that area.
Oh that Blues Trail sounds like very cool thing. Was listening to Howlin Wolf cuts off London Sessions (and Chess stuff) LP with Clapton and Stones guys plus Hubert Sumlin and Lafayette Leake, great stuff. Thanks to all Brit fans and musicians who got into all that and supported tours/recorded their tunes.
Hopefully we get competitive WS.
I am totally jealous loco, since I am down here I am going to look into doing it myself. Been a blues fan since the minute I heard the stuff(Lowell Folsom, Memphis Jug Band, and Bessie smith.)
the collective creation of the blues in the delta shaped slice of bottom land sitting between the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers seems almost miraculous.
Winder, Clarksdale is just 5 hours out of NOLA (except if you’re stopping at all the roadside markers like we did), so it shouldn’t be too far from where you’re at. So many came out of the Delta blues area, Pinetop Perkins, Sun House, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Charlie Patton, BB King and Albert King etc, all from that area. Charlie Musselwhite is living there now, everywhere we went to eat he was there. The Delta Blues museum I thought was well worth the visit. While in Clarksdale, stop by the Downtown liquor store and see if Frank is working, long story but he’s a huge Giants fan from Pacifica. Have fun.
Are you guys familiar with Offbeat Magazine? It’s been run for decades by a great old friend of mine from Brooklyn by the name of Joseph Irrera…
Loo, I still have a bunch of old Offbeats, their Jazz Fest guide was always great. Didn’t they close shop, or maybe just digital?
Yes Loco, all digital now I believe…
now that’s a road trip.
Yes it was. Stopped into the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia MS. The last operating Juke Joint in MS. Was there in the afternoon and nobody was playing, but we still drank a couple of beers inside. Gotta love a joint that serves cheap beer or MD 20/20.
I’ve come around on the jays. Vlad’s great. Springer always had been. Too bad he’s entered the DH phase of his career; he’d’ve been good in LF at China Basin earlier. Gausman is easy too root for. Their fireplug catcher Kirk has some Pablo in him. Etc. And they’re playing the bums.
Go Jays, would love nothing more than a classic choke job from our friends down south.
Gas man and Vladdy are the only guys I know on the BJs.
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Thanks loco, I like all those guys you mentioned and have a couple of books about the blues. I used to live in Pacifica for a short time.
Toronto is the type of offense to which the Giants should aspire. 4th in MLB in runs scored, Giants were 17th. The difference – why?
Hitting focus on generating contact, really smart situational AB approaches — as we saw when the Jays swept SF in Toronto this past season. This past season, Toronto’s chase % was 7th in MLB vs. Giants 24th; Jays batted balls 1st vs. Giants 23rd. Contact generating lots of RISP married up with a good supply of power contact driving them in (Toronto was MLB 13th in HRs, SF 19th not that big if difference, but 8th in SLG vs. Giants 25th). Jays and the Giants were both on the bottom of MLB rank in stolen bases, so that is no contributing factor in the offensive divide…
rumor has it Bo Bichette will be healthy enough to make the WS roster. Key player, they say. Bums pitching good as it has become here at the end may meet its match. Hope so.
Only team in AL that scored more runs than Jays and hit more bombs were Yanks with that short RF(and Aaron Judge). As a team Jays hit .265…beside Dom Smith did any one Giant hit .265? Giants have collection of middle order guys who are gonna hit for power, K a lot and who aren’t gonna run or steal bags. They also have long term deals (courtesy of POBO) and aren’t going anywhere. only couple spots where Posey could add “contact” hitters or maybe some speed, 2b/OF.
ODE TO A SKYSCRAPER
by Felix Unger
Born from the rubble that lies here,
Nurtured through snow and through rain
By men whose only companions
Are derrick and shovel and crane.
Center for great institutions,
Place where conglomerates grow,
Yet home for the little cigar shop
With the candies all in a row.
Seven-seven-seven they will call you!
Towards heaven, heaven, heaven you will soar!
Only God can make a tree, I will grant you.
But only man can make a 40th floor.
Is that the “Bail before jail so you better not fail” episode?
Giants hired the Tennessee guy. Risky. One of my best friends daughter is an athlete their. He is a rowdy guy who regularly seen at the local bars. When I told my friend they we looking at him, he texted her and she immediately sent a picture with her and 5 other girls in a picture with him at a Tenn football game on the field. My friend is a huge college sports guy and says he is revered in Knoxville. hated by everyone else because he is abrasive. Sour grapes or truth? Who knows. We shall see
From an article in the Athletic not written by a MLB writer but a college guy……
“A college baseball head coach with no pro experience getting a shot as a Major League Baseball manager sounds strange because it doesn’t happen, but if ever there were a college coach perfectly suited to make that jump, it would be …
I’m not sure, actually. But if someone did the research and ranked all of today’s prominent college coaches in terms of MLB fit, Tony Vitello would have a strong case for last place.
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Tony Vitello — Tennessee’s intense, eccentric, hilarious national championship coach — to the San Francisco Giants? College baseball wasn’t sure how to take this guy a few years ago when his teams started beating everybody in their path — all while taunting bat-inspecting umpires, wearing fur coats and running the bases with middle fingers extended.”
It should be fun if they win:)