Time To Start Hitting
The time is now. We’ve been very good in Cinn the last few years and there’s no better ball park to hit in besides maybe Coors or Atlanta.
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A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
I guess this is good news.
If he can’t hit half his weight, fuck him.
his minor league batting ave was .251 so none of this should really be a surprise. The dude can’t hit.
Plenty of guys have come around after middling minor stats, but when do they just say, “go get ’em Susac?”
I’d have pulled the plug on Bailey by now as he’s shown nothing since the 1st half of 2024.
And man, I guess we should be leery of guys named Harrison. I didn’t expect a lot, but come on. .250 shouldn’t be a bar too high. But that is true of most of the goddamn team.
RIP Phil Garner. This just posted on Super 70s Sports on the 9th. About the only thing I use twitter for.
Saw Willie posting this on your page. Yeah, Garner was a good player and person. RIP
Maybe because I was younger the game seemed so much better then than today’s game. It’s just the last few years baseball has turned boring to me. It will be a lot less boring if we kick the Reds ass a couple of games.
It’s because you (we) were younger…
I have no recollection of this, but Garner spent his last season as a MLB player in 1988 with the Giants. Played in only 15 games per Baseball Reference. He raked in the Pirates ’79 run to the WS title, with .417 (5 for 12) in the NLCS and .500 (12 for 24) in the World Series. RIP to “Scrap Iron”.
I’m getting tired of hearing about sports guys in my age (he’s a handful of years older) wheelhouse taking the final lap. It’s ticking me off. Anyway, I’m every day a follower and fan of what Red said in Shawshank, “Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin'”.
Along those lines, just got back from the better part of the last week up in BC. Vancouver has a fantastic Anthropology museum with amazing exhibits of the PNW First Nations tribes history, artwork, totems, sculptures, jewelry and clothes, etc. and ways of life. I’m really getting into that, have bought a few really nice prints of artwork by Haida, Coast Salish, and other PNW tribal artists. We also went up to Squamish, a mountain town about 40 miles north of Vancouver on the Howe Sound just below Whistler. Great big country, big water, big mountains. Did a couple of 5-7 mile hikes in the woods around some small lakes with Mrs. snarkk. Awesome waterfalls, streams, rivers, fern groves, big red cedars, clean air and big snowy, craggy mountains around us.
Both places we ate great food and talked with friendly Canadians wondering what the phuck we are doing in and to our country. I could only apologize and say I could not explain it either…
my younger son loves Vancouver and bc generally. He and his girlfriend spend a lot of time in the wild.
There’s definitely a lot of wild in BC. Massive country, varied topography from fjords and mountains in the West to plains and agriculture / orchards/ranches in the east and southeast. I’ve been coming up to BC since my first trip as a boy when my father took us from California up to a place called Nimpo Lake, about 200 miles on a dirt road west of a place in north central BC called Williams Lake. He was into fishing, and so I got into it, too. Still am. Last summer, I went back there to Nimpo with Mrs. snarkk. I had not been there in 60 years. Now the road to it is all paved, though the country is still wild and void of most humans, with the remaining 90 miles of road from there to the Pacific still dirt/packed gravel. In other words, it’s still a long-ass place from nowhere.
We went fishing out on the lake in a rental boat and caught a couple of nice rainbow trout (amazing pink flesh from freshwater shrimp) that I cooked on the resort’s outdoor grill that night. I thought of my parents a lot that day and my life in between those two visits.
I’ve been up and down the inside passage several times. Summer of 73, right after college, I worked on a salmon boat out of Petersburg, AK. I probably remember every sunny day I saw, but they were as dazzling as they were rare. Also spent some time in 78 sailing a small sloop around the Strait of JdeF–Ports Angeles and Townsend, Victoria,etc,–en route to Vancouver. Magnificent part of the world.
Going to Whidbey island in May for a wedding and we are gonna go all over the Olympics and up to Canada. Love that area but haven’t been in decades. Spent 2 weeks in Banff skiing Lake Louise, Banff Springs, and a few other places I can’t remember. Ski out, eh?
Just walked by Finnerty’s on trek to Penn Stn. For all NYC metro-based Giants fans on Flap blog, we should consider meeting for couple 🍺 sometime at Finnerty’s, perhaps when Giants in town. Don’t know if relocated watering hole still has full SF Giant vibe that old bar on 2nd Ave had.