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Giants Prospects Who Have Turned It Around This Year … And the MyGuyScouts™ Who Saw Them Coming!
by Haak Away Giants Prospects Who Have Turned It Around This Year ... And the MyGuyScouts™ Who Saw Them Coming! Seven years ago, "my guy" became a term thrown around to attach oneself to the current rising star of the week. The next week we would declare the next shiny object "my guy". It is our human nature to do this. But then some here caught on to the unique power of Baseball to elevate our...
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Giants Prospects Who Have Turned It Around This Year … And the MyGuyScouts™ Who Saw Them Coming!
by Haak Away Giants Prospects Who Have Turned It Around This Year ... And the MyGuyScouts™ Who Saw Them Coming! Seven years ago, "my guy" became a term thrown around to attach oneself to the current rising star of the week. The next week we would declare the next...
Announcing MyGuy™ 2022!
by HaakAway MyGuy2022™ ... Rich Crop of Prospects Meets New, Easy Way to Vote MyGuyJourney™ You can't miss all the chatter on how rich the Giants' farm system is right now. Plus, we have some early season tastes of Bart and Ramos showing they have arrived. But, as...
Guest Post: My Best and Worst Giants Games
by John Ginn Like many of the TWG faithful, I am a longtime diehard Giants fan. 2021 will be my sixty-first season diligently following the Orange and Black. I was born and raised in the San Joaquin valley (Stockton), and I attended many games at Candlestick in my...
The Best and Worst Games I Ever Attended
By SurfMaui Since there is no baseball, at least for the time being, with this Guest Post SM is initiating a new series for TWGers to weigh in on: The Best and Worst Games Ever. The only restriction is that you must have actually attended the game in person either at...
MyGuy2021™ Final Results
by HaakAway MyGuy2021™ Final Results The Giants Prospects are the stars of MyGuy™. Years ago one of our posters, "avwh", was the "star" for making us think more about the prospects. Then we suddenly lost him on December 20, 2015. He is Allen Hirsch and here is a...
Announcing MyGuy 2021
MyGuy2021™ By Haak Away TWG has a great tradition of being more than emotional rants at every losing streak, late inning collapse or team decision that goes bad. We comment and interact for the Long Haul. We do this because that is how we display one of the great...
SURF MAUI’S GIANTS MUSEUM AND MANCAVE COLLECTION®–Part VII: WORLD SERIES PROGRAMS
by Surf Maui In today’s tour of the SMGMAMC® we will focus on some Giants World Series Programs and a few–but by no means all-- of SM’s other World Series items. As did many of you, SM has attended all of the Giants home World Series games at Willie Mays Field since...
Surf Maui Guest Post: New Acquisitions for My Giants Museum
by Surf Maui It’s been a while since SM has written about his SurfMaui Giants Museum and ManCave. (tm) Today, however, there are two new additions, courtesy of a long time friend (albeit a Yankee fan) who was nice enough to send me them as a present. Before SM moved...
Surf Maui Guest Post: My Giants Museum and Man Cave, The Buster Posey Collection
By Surf Maui If there is to be Giants baseball in 2020, it won’t be with Buster Posey. As we all know, he made the very classy move to opt out of baseball this season in order to avoid exposing and taking care of his newly adopted fragile twin daughters. ...
Surf Maui Guest Post: My Man Cave & The MadBum Collection
by Surf Maui The MadBum Collection It is well known that SurfMaui was a huge fan of Madison Bumgarner--the depth of which may become more apparent later in this installment of the SMGMAMC®. Subject to the vicissitudes of the Covid-19 Pandemic, with baseball perhaps...
Surf Maui Guest Post: The 1962 Giants
by Surf Maui Welcome to the next installment of the SMGMAMC® tour. Today we will focus on the 1962 Giants who, as you all know came within a few inches of winning the World Series. Their miraculous pennant charge and improbable comeback playoff win not only cemented...
SurfMaui Guest Post: My Conversation With John “The Count” Montefusco and the Quest to Return His Team MVP Trophy
by SurfMaui In Surf Maui’s piece several weeks ago about John Montefusco, I reported that SM was in possession of The Count’s 1976 Giants Team MVP Trophy as awarded by the San Francisco beat writers. You may also recall that I reported that I had previously...