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.
I was hoping you would choose “get busy livin”😉
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.
my cetology hobby led me to these guys who lovingly track what’s happening in your backyard.
https://bsky.app/profile/pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social/post/3mjhmqkzefs2z
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.
I was in there over a year ago when it was brand new. There was no SF vibe but it was a rainy winter weeknight after a Ranger game so it was pretty dead. From the reviews I’ve read it’s become a good place for Bay area sports fans. Problem is you might only get me…
Xoot nailed it as to sunny days: “.. they were as dazzling as they were rare.” I was born in Campbell River on Vancouver Island, raised in Vancouver. I remember some of my first gigs were in Squamish — we called it “Squeemish” !! I still remember the bar we played in was called the Bolla Room and was attached to a bowling alley. It was first time I ever saw chicken wire in front of the bandstand. Man, those people liked to drink & fight!!
BB, that place sounds like the Canadian “Road House” bar.
It truly was somewhat like that. I recall one weekend (live music at the Bolla was only on Fri & Sat) somebody in the audience got stabbed and was serious enough the RCMP shut the place down for a couple of weeks.
À la The Blues Brothers! That’s great. Did you ever see those squatter shacks outside the city, built on stilts over the tide line at Dollarton, where Malcolm Lowry and his wife lived? His novel October Ferry to Gabriola captured the time and place.
Oh Man! I’ve not thought of Dollarton for what seems like centuries. The Dollarton Highway! No, I never witnessed the shacks as they were long gone by the time I was around. I had bandmates living in Deep Cove where we’d rehearse.
Do the Giants have any effective pitchers???
Ray was the one.
lqtm . . . good one Xoot 🙂
Fucking pitch was smoked. Two bombs. Lucky to only be down 2 runs.
So according to Grant Bisbee the Giants are dead last in walks drawn and yet top 4 in balls put in play which of course stinks with weak contact swinging at garbage pitches which of course leads to no runs.
Oh Joy.. Ray’s given up 2 solo Homers on 79 pitches in 4 innings losing 2-0 so basically ballgame!
RIP Scrap Iron Phil like the Giants RIP offense!
Adaaaaames!
Arrrrrrrraaaaeeeeezzzz! Nice snag.
Yeah totally Road House scenario with the chicken wire cage with the blind singer BB!!
And of course the Blues Brothers when the Good ole boys Bob’s Country Bunker? to perform and Jake&Elwood did the gig and drank a shitload of beer more than what they were going to make on stage.The Owner wants restitution and Jake says no problem Elwood’s just going to the car to write you a check( engine still running they bail lol 😂)
hilarious! Yeah, it was never quite like that … no blind singer .. in fact, I was carrying a fair bit of the vocals … oh brother, I was terrible … not blind, but pretty much tone deaf as a singer. I probably caused some of those fights. LOL!
fer shit’s sake, common Giants! We can still pull this one out!
Just turned on the game. Looks like another barn burner. Ramos needs the red bat. He couldn’t connect with a fucking banjo.
7 hits. 1 run. Yikes.
Keep sending Bailey out there.
Susac gives more excitement than the entire team. in one fucking AB Play him for fuck’s sake.
Fucking weak. Weak weak weak weak weak. Wait! Susac? Weak.
That was quick.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!
saw a plausible comment today: “Mr President, when they ask you about the Christ post, tell them that you had it taken down because it had been doctored.” “Doctored? Yeah. Ok. That’ll work.”
RFK Jr got a hold of it?
Susac gave that pitch a ride. Just not meant to be. Regardless, I hope Mr. V switches roles with him and Bailey. So tired of seeing “Mr. Automatic Out” day in and day out. I suspect that a couple of our pitchers have their favorite catcher (likely Ray and Webb preferring Bailey). I understand that, but there has to be a happy medium, where Susac plays more.
2/3 of the lineup is ‘automatic out’. Fuck ‘preferred catcher’ at this point. They need runs.
Ray got Cained. And the pen finally does it’s job.
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooòǒœrrrrrrrřing.
Sheesh, even the post game talking heads can’t identify one positive about this Giants team.
Chuck – if you’re heading to the Olympics, give me a heads up in advance and we can meet for a beer or lunch while you’re on your way, if you’re heading the Port Angeles way.
Two and only two consistent positives since Game 1 is Ray and Arraez. So to lose on night Ray yields only two hits thru five innings – albeit two bombs – and Arraez goes 3-4 hurts extra.
10% of season very small sample size but we’ve witnessed this bad movie past four years. Optically Giants have Dead Man Walking look.
On pace for 60-102 season yeehaw 🤠