The Giants needed to at least beat the Padres
― Bee OK, Sunday, 3 September 2023 23:24 (eight months ago) link
Stick a fork in them
― Bee OK, Monday, 4 September 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
Even if they would make the playoffs, they won't, they will not do anything once there.
― Bee OK, Monday, 4 September 2023 20:37 (eight months ago) link
Jesus
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 04:18 (eight months ago) link
Here’s the play in which Patrick Bailey sustained a “potential concussion” in the seventh inning pic.twitter.com/LIqS6yxi1k— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 6, 2023
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:29 (eight months ago) link
Joey Bart is back, Bailey has a concussion.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:30 (eight months ago) link
Jesus, hadn’t seen that. Catchers get dinged all the time as well. That’s ten days out for Bailey.
― ydkb (gyac), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
Bot 6th: Giants
Ty Blach pitching
L. Matos walkedW. Flores homered (421 ft.) to deep left center, L. Matos scoredM. Haniger homered (413 ft.) to deep left centerJ.D. Davis homered (428 ft.) to deep left center
Ty Blach relieved from game
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 September 2023 03:57 (eight months ago) link
deep left center can't take much more
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Saturday, 9 September 2023 04:01 (eight months ago) link
Ross Stripling & his player option are a joke, man. They optioned Harrison to reinstate Stripling in part because he complained about being on the phantom il and then came back to cough up 3 runs in 3.1 IP to the Rockies?! Cool.
― ydkb (gyac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 01:10 (eight months ago) link
RIP 2023
When they get no hit through eight at Coors Field, there is no way this team deserves a spot in the playoffs.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:01 (eight months ago) link
And that Harrison thing burns me up too or I agree completely.
Xpost
― Bee OK, Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:03 (eight months ago) link
In other words, I have watched Giants baseball for 24 years now and this has to be the worst for a team that is will finish appropriately ,500 and better. There is no offense and needs to be addressed.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:37 (eight months ago) link
Approximately, stupid autocorrect
― Bee OK, Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:51 (eight months ago) link
Did you see the two Baggarly mailbaggs on the Athletic? He was scathing about them keeping Joc over Belt.
― ydkb (gyac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 09:24 (eight months ago) link
Baggs is deservedly scathing about the Giants wasting Webb’s season. Man carried them as pretty much the sole starter putting up a 2010s workload and got rewarded like he was Matt Cain. Pathetic.
Run support per 27 outs this season for currently qualified MLB pitchers while they were in the game:2.9 Logan Webb3.0 George Kirby3.1 Braxton Garrett3.3 Kyle Freeland3.4 JP Sears3.4 Kevin Gausman3.4 Miles Mikolas3.5 Sonny Gray3.5 Mitch Keller3.7 Merrill Kelly3.8…— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) September 20, 2023
― ydkb (gyac), Thursday, 21 September 2023 08:40 (eight months ago) link
gabe out
― brimstead, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:15 (eight months ago) link
I’m hearing the Giants are relieving Gabe Kapler of managerial duties, announcement imminent.— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September 29, 2023
― brimstead, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:17 (eight months ago) link
Just came here after seeing Baggs’ tweet. There was speculation like two days ago, then Grant Brisbee(!) had that article in the Athletic and now he’s gone I guess?Think the Baggs coverage that repeatedly criticised the attitude and lack of preparation of some of the veterans also influenced this outcome.Didn’t hate him or anything, think he’s been scapegoated a bit & am very much not a fan of Zaidi’s choices for the roster tbh!
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:23 (eight months ago) link
The Giants announced that they have fired manager Gabe Kapler. This is the first time the organization has relieved a manager of duties since they replaced Jim Davenport with Roger Craig with 18 games remaining in the 1985 season.— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) September 29, 2023
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:27 (eight months ago) link
I never really thought about it seriously but I wonder if they move Buster in? He did move back to the Bay Area recently.
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:31 (eight months ago) link
"Here's a roster where your middle of the order is Michael Conforto, Joc Pederson, and Mitch Haniger and you have two starting pitchers who can get to the sixth inning. Don't fuck it up."— Grant Brisbee (@GrantBrisbee) September 29, 2023
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:53 (eight months ago) link
Baggs has been scathing about some of the roster choices recently. As Brisbee says, not on him.
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:59 (eight months ago) link
Three games before the end of the season seems like a major chump move as an organization.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 29 September 2023 23:37 (eight months ago) link
Danny Emerman on KNBR theorizes Farhan and ownership might've known Kapler was gone after the Dbacks series. There's no way. They had no intention of firing Kapler at that point. This all came about in 48-72 hours after Farhan "talked to people," Webb's comments and fan reaction.— LOLKNBR (@LOLKNBR) September 29, 2023
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Friday, 29 September 2023 23:41 (eight months ago) link
a better manager would have unlocked joey bart's promise
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:07 (eight months ago) link
I have been away and will explain somewhat when I get back to regular posting. But I have some thoughts. Understandable. Webb's comments were telling. This team was 13 games above .500 and will finish under that. Tho the talent was overachieving the collapse was monumental. These last few weeks they lost their focus, how does that happen when you're playing for a playoff spot. Maybe Kap did better than he should have, again talent but his stoic approach caught up to him when it mattered most.
Three days early is a dick move so maybe there is more to the story?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 30 September 2023 03:57 (eight months ago) link
For reference: https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/logan-webb-sf-giants-calls-out-teammates-18389595.php
“It’s definitely something I would like to do, but to be honest with you, winning is more important,” Webb told reporters in the locker room when asked about winning the Cy Young. “If we don’t do that, then it’s kind of a waste to me. ... I’m tired. I’m tired of losing. It’s not enjoyable. It’s not fun. We’ve got to make some big changes in here to really create that winning culture. We want to show up every single year and try to win the whole thing. I think, I think we’re there. It’s just, we gotta, I don’t know what it is. But I’m just sick of losing, to be honest. That’s No. 1 for me, goal-wise.”
"When’s the last time you heard music in a major-league clubhouse after a loss?” one Giants player, granted anonymity in order to speak freely, reportedly told Baggarly. “I mean, you shouldn’t hang your head for too long after a loss. But you shouldn’t be OK with it, either.”
The music is part of what Baggarly describes as “a clubhouse that has included too many ho-hum reactions to losing along with a near-zealotry to Pusoy, a Filipino card game that Joc Pederson and some other Giants players appear to find more compelling than studying the night’s opposing starting pitcher.”
"We’ve got to come in here with the same winning mentality every single day,” Webb said. “Not saying we don’t have that. Just saying we need to throw a little extra onto that. I know (right-hander Alex) Cobb hasn’t been to the playoffs in a long time and I feel terrible for a guy like that. He pitches his ass off this year, he’s an All-Star, and he should be pitching in the playoffs. I want to help make that happen for him. It’s just tough.”
― Bee OK, Saturday, 30 September 2023 04:15 (eight months ago) link
To be fair the middle part is not Webb but ran along the same line.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 30 September 2023 04:17 (eight months ago) link
Good for Gabe, now he can go manage for a team whose owners/GM actually have ambition.
Giants brass whiffed on Arson Judge, (wisely?) flopped on Correia, only to pull the trigger on... (drum roll): Paul DeJong, Joc Pederson, Mitch Haniger & Michael Conforto.
But yeah, Gabe was given far below replacement level garbage and the fact the Giants are anywhere even close to being a .500 team is an amazing accomplishment.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 30 September 2023 04:28 (eight months ago) link
(Sorry, I missed Grant's tweet where he basically says the same thing.)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 30 September 2023 04:30 (eight months ago) link
Bless the SF Chronicle's sportswriters... (from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/farhan-zaidi-said-mean-gabe-kapler-s-giants-job-18396968.php)
One very intriguing possibility, and one — like Melvin — with Oakland ties to Zaidi: A’s manager Mark Kotsay, who has done a good job in Oakland with a team that unloaded most of its established big-league players over the past two years. Kotsay is under contract for next season, with a team option for 2025.
I mean, there are a lot of adjectives I can think of to describe Kotsay's record with the A's but "a good job" is certainly not one of them.
.308 W/L % (as of today): https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/kotsama01.shtml
Genuinely curious which managers have compiled a lower winning % who've managed a full season while not getting fired. I'm pretty sure this is one of the bottom 3 worst of modern-era baseball.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 30 September 2023 04:49 (eight months ago) link
mike matheny is available
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 September 2023 05:33 (eight months ago) link
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 07:09 (eight months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/hGP6MqVT/IMG-0089.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/Zq7gMDLg/IMG-0090.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/j5D90Qgj/IMG-0091.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/4dj0J7qQ/IMG-0092.jpg
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 19:44 (eight months ago) link
Baggs came out SWINGING
So why was Kapler fired on Friday afternoon, with three games and one more season remaining on his contract? Why did he become the first San Francisco Giants manager in 38 years to be relieved of his duties, ending a run of remarkable franchise stability when it came to the industry’s most volatile occupation?Because the Giants didn’t win enough. Why didn’t the Giants win enough? Because their roster didn’t have nearly enough talent or continuity. Why didn’t their roster have enough talent or continuity? Maybe because Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi operated with blind spots that have been so large at times that you wondered who ripped off the side mirrors.
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 19:46 (eight months ago) link
yeah kapler managed a .420 team to .500 is one way of looking at itRIP big man, heaven needed a thoroughly jacked scrotal suntanner
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 30 September 2023 21:19 (eight months ago) link
Bring back Dusty
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 30 September 2023 22:02 (eight months ago) link
Nice tribute to BCraw here. As far as I know he hasn’t confirmed retirement yet but he surely must be doing so, right?Looking for a clip of the 2012 WS game 3 clip Vogelsong mentions but in the meantime:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh7PMk365YwI remembered this one, ball deflected off Cain, didn’t miss a beat, beautiful barehand grab and throwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUMATbO78IOh yeah, here’s the game 3 play! The ball breaks the bat with how hard Miggy hit it, incredible catch reallyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSQhQWunHYhttps://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/34/51/22/24286368/3/900x0.jpg
Former pitcher Ryan Vogelsong: “The 2012 postseason sums up everything the guy has done in his career. He played absolutely unbelievable defense throughout the playoffs, and things he did offensively were exactly what we needed at the time, stuff that might’ve gotten overlooked in his career. Some of my favorite Craw plays were in the World Series in Detroit, a couple of diving plays in the freezing cold and rain. You just saw everything the man could do, going to his backhand, up the middle, behind the mound. My favorite play that I ever saw him make was Game 3 when Timmy (Lincecum) came in relief and broke Miguel Cabrera’s bat, and Craw made a diving, acrobatic play up the middle and sidearmed his throw to first. The fact it was 32 degrees made it pretty incredible, too.”
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Sunday, 1 October 2023 17:52 (seven months ago) link
Bay Area Bob 🎬 pic.twitter.com/7ETN5nBRaf— SFGiants (@SFGiants) October 25, 2023
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:44 (seven months ago) link
Well see how it goes. I like the hiring and now on to the players.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
https://x.com/susanslusser/status/1731425846244549098?s=20
Ohtani or Yamamoto but probably neither as everyone hates San Francisco these days. Lee would be nice too.
― Bee OK, Monday, 4 December 2023 02:51 (five months ago) link
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39100773/giants-700m-offer-ohtani-identical-dodgers
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:16 (five months ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/giants-posey-sf-doom-loop-free-agency-18552169.php
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 December 2023 03:06 (five months ago) link
Can't wait for Shohei to drive through 6th Street on his way to Dodger Stadium and take in all the sights and smells.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 December 2023 03:16 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlIYEE6ixQU
― Bee OK, Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:08 (five months ago) link
It's worth watching for Scott Boras hair alone.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:15 (five months ago) link
Jung Hoo Lee has been a Giant for about two seconds and I already love him.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:30 (five months ago) link
Fingers crossed this is the beginning of them being able to field a competitive and exciting team
― octobeard, Saturday, 16 December 2023 22:50 (five months ago) link
You love to see it!
playing this on loop for the rest of my life https://t.co/UA3DumaQMr pic.twitter.com/uOBTolDkeT— natasha (@thefriscobay) December 17, 2023
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Sunday, 17 December 2023 10:34 (five months ago) link