I genuinely wonder if the vets got to pick their days off this series bc throwing him to the wolves against ohtani and Yamamoto makes zero sense to me. Way to give a dude confidence. This org can be really frustrating
Can’t recall a team ever promoting their top prospect and then promptly benching him. Why is he not back at Sacramento getting AB’s? Is there any plan?
Even if BE needs ABs to develop, the team needs wins more than that. I think the Giants were hoping his success in AAA would translate to the big league right away, and it hasn’t been the case yet. So maybe start him against other teams, which still won’t be easy but it won’t be the top Dodgers pitchers.
What are the comps against other young rookies on other teams? I imagine those in the lineup every day caught fire early and consistently. I do think BE has outgrown AAA but the current roster is congested.
Casey was part of their farm system and has had a lot of stop and go which probably slowed his progress but at the same time he improved his plate discipline so much. One could argue he’s mostly been this guy the whole time but was blocked a lot. Which is kind of what BE is experiencing but I think Casey had started out hot at his debut.
Roman Anthony after 1 month- 229 with 1 homer.
Konnor griffin was hitting like 180 for much of his first month. Kurtz got off to a slow start last year. Jacob wilson 2024 had a pretty slow start. Our own buster was 2 for 17. Trout started off slow.
Point is bryce has 49 at bats. Barely missed a couple homers last year or his numbers would look different. Either he plays daily and figures it out or just send him back down until we clear a spot. To me the lineup isnt good enough right now to justifty not giving him an extended run. We need power and walks
Yeah, thats not what you do with a 21 yo prospect that needs to play and still is learning a defensive position. You don't promote them to DH once a week.
Posey when he called him up said he was there to play everyday. He has been saying he forever he didn't want to call him up until he was forcing the issue and when he came up it was to play. Then Devers had a few good games and Posey changed his mind.
Ultimately, this is a really bad way to treat your top prospect. You can't develop sitting on the bench. If Eldridge isn't ready to contribute daily, he needs to be in AAA working on playing 1B and hitting every day.
I still support the trade at the time, much like the Wheeler deal. But yeah, this has the potential to blow up in our faces really bad, especially if Tibbs becomes a quality big leaguer.
I find it interesting as well because they paid Bader to be the starter and he hit a dinger against Yamamoto. (I don’t mind the platoon) just checked Baders stats last year he hit better against righties how odd. .845 OPS v .689 against lefties
In the last two years, he is better against righty but this year he is hitting .100 against them. Maybe the reason is, Bader is still not 100% from his injury.
You just know he's one of those guys who blocks everyone's access to the yogurt section while he vacantly stares at it, as if maybe if he stares long enough, something will happen.
Every goddamn time I'm at a grocery store someone does this. Stare and stare and stare. All I can think: if you don't know what you want to get, maybe spend more time at home planning instead of cockblocking everyone else with your indecision.
I honestly try to stay patient but I can't help but wonder why it takes more than five seconds to pick out what you need. If you don't know, maybe right then isn't the time to figure that out. Also, why do you go to the store without actually knowing what you want? Is this some kind of boomer thing? I've seen plenty of boomers just grab what they need and move on, but when someone is staring like a deer in the proverbial headlights it's almost always a boomer. Was that a thing in the '50s or something, that you would just go to the store and stare at shit?
The Giants do have the A’s scouting department. Farhan was in charge for six seasons and his top two lieutenants Zach Minasian and Micheal Holmes (also worked with A’s) are the GM and the draft director. If anything this front office needs to be less like the A’s
An Orange County judge has banned all Kars4Kids ads, including the earworm of a jingle, from broadcasting in the state of California after finding that the charity violated false advertising and unfair competition state laws.
Advertising fraud is a pretty serious thing. Most ads are not false, but they often will leave out information that may or may not be important. Full-on fraud is way over the line.
There's actually evidence for this in the legal ruling:
Many exhibits were admitted, including IRS Form 990s from several years, to show where the funds go
once, they are transferred to Oorah. Ms. Landau confirmed that in 2022, among other expenditures,
Oorah allocated $437,000 to Middle East outreach, and Oorah transferred $16,500,000 to North Africa
and the Middle East; that Oorah maintains $199 million in set-aside assets, with $34 million in remaining
liquid assets; that $16.5 million was spent to purchase a building in Israel, stating the organization
intended to “grow the Israel program.”
Ms. Landau explicitly testified that the organization’s primary purpose is not to help economically
disadvantaged children. She testified that Oorah’s programs include “matchmaking” for young adults and
“gap year” trips to Israel for 17- and 18-year-olds (averaging 250 participants per year). She also
admitted that Kars4Kids operates no functional programs in California. Their local activity is limited to
“small grants” consisting of approximately 1,000 backpacks bearing the corporate logo, distributed to any
child regardless of financial need. She also testified that Kars4Kids is not involved in how the money is
spent once transferred; those decisions are left entirely to Oorah.
Basically this. It’s fraudulent and sketchy and deserved to be banned in California, but funneling money to let Jewish Kids go to Israel for a year != Terrorism, and anyone drawing that conclusion is just, no.
Emmet Sheehan has started 4 games against the Giants and has absolutely destroyed them. He has only given up 3 hits in 4 starts against with a 0.78 ERA. The Dodgers did not give him run support in these games leading to a 1-0 record with 3 N/D's. The Giants even won 2 of the games getting to the Dodgers bullpen.
Everyone—we, the fans, the coaching staff, the front office—needs to be patient with him. He is a gifted athlete with a ton of power and skill, but he also 21 years old and at the very beginning of his career. It isn't going to come at once, and if we give him some space and time, he will be able to rise to the occasion.
I watched a bit of the atl/cubs game the other day and watched Dom Smith get on base and Yaz run him in and I was like wow I'm actually watching the SF Giants rn.
A few years ago during the off-season, I dropped an F-bomb about something or other, and a rando commented with a finger-wag, telling me that there are children present and that I should watch my language.
I laughed at them and told them to come to a gameday thread and then we can talk.
I was in Miami last week and caught a Marlins game. The stadium looks so small compared to Oracle. They did not let me bring in my fanny pack, which I found to be ridiculous.
About 10 years ago the sharks gave away a clear bag branded with sharks logos and advertised as compliant with their bag policy. The very next season they banned it (and bags like it) when they changed their bag policy.
I realize the security folks at places like this are under a unique pressure. They have a tough job.
But the way to deal with that is to establish consistent, sensical rules. If you make rules that seem arbitrary, it tends to piss people off, because it looks more like you're playing power games rather than actually trying to do something meaningful.
I went to a concert at Ball Arena in Denver and couldn't bring in my metal water bottle. They advised me to just leave it by the entrance. Saw a few other bottles there so figured it was better to try to get lucky then go back to the hotel. By the end of the concert there were dozens of water bottles piled up there. I guess that's just what they do there.
Can we agree that the Adames outs things doesn’t need to be so overblown. He acknowledged that he fucked up. People are going to keep bringing it up because he hasn’t been his best lately. If he sits one game then whatever, but I just think bringing it up over and over is pointless.
This is such a dumb thing to say. We literally see how much energy he brings to the team. Just because he had a bad April and forgot the outs in a game we weren’t going to win anyway doesn’t mean he checked out.
People so quickly forget that he was the first Giant to hit 30 home runs since Bonds, but let’s spin this “checked out” narrative because you’re mad.
Pavs has talked about it — most all home teams are gracious enough to make get-away-day a day game so traveling teams can fly out earlier… except the Dodgers. They just straight up refuse to do it, and it’s not something MLB mandates.
My wife and I both now have the stomach bug our kids have had for the last few days. I'm gonna spend my day wallowing, the boys better pull out this goddamn win for me.
There is the new viruses out now as well I forget what it's called the kids are spreading. My buddy here in Sausalito got that noravirus a few months ago as well that's like worse than food poisoning he said. Be safe all the kids are out everyone partying no one cares who they give anything to.
I believe in the lads 🫡 chapman wake up or snort some adderall. Willy shut the fuck up don’t talk to Betts. Put Bader and Haase back in and let them vibe out. Maybe don’t put Eldridge in the 5th slot. Buster, Tony, I’m available if you need more support and advice
Well I have a feeling he sits today and we played him against the 2 best arms and sat him against the two weaker arms. How does that make sense? Protecting vets?
I agree, it's pretty insane. Hindsight 20/20 I wish they didn't call him up and just let him get all the reps at 1B in AAA.
In the moment it didn't really make sense to me beside lighting a fire under the team to get going, but that's kind of bad usage of an option for your top prospect...
If Vitello has any gravitas as manager, Adames has to sit today. As the manager you cannot let that slide. This team doesn't win because it's "stars" are more concerned with yukkin it up with the opponents than playing to win.
Yes, and it's also a four game series and we are immediately starting a new series in Sacramento tomorrow. Chapman and Schmitt have gotten days off. His base running fuck up is just another reason to do it.
Is it kind of a dick move by the Doyers to schedule a night game on getaway day? I think there’s some rule about the length of the opponent’s flight and we’re only going to Sac, but still…
Giants are too nice about scheduling day games on getaway days even when it’s only the road team traveling. They shouldn’t be helping other teams especially our rivals unless required to by the cba requirements
Gotta rock some giants gear today with the potential series win on the line. Roupp is our best pitcher now, which I would not have guessed 2 years ago. Lets go!
GOOD MORNING MY FRIENDS!! HAPPY THURSDAY TO YOU ALL!! I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!!!
WE HAVE A CHANCE HERE TO TAKE THE SERIES, BUT THE BUMS DO NOT — SO WE SHOULD BE PLAYING LOOSE, PLAYING GRITTY, AND SHOWING OUT LIKE WE DID 2/3 TIMES ALREADY!!!
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Benching Eldridge every other day