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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 Tribute to him from the Golden Gate Audubon Society. DrLefty wrote about his baseball life and love on this blog. His initials, avwh,...
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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...
Guest Post: The 1982 Giants
by totalfan62 The 1982 San Francisco Giants were an interesting team. We had finished 56-55 overall in strike-shortened 1981, playing better in the post-strike portion of the season. VP of Baseball Operations Tom Haller made some significant moves in the 1981...
SurfMaui Guest Post: My Highlights and Lowlights of the Decade
BY SURFMAUI As the decade comes to an end, and in the spirit of Dr. Lefty’s excellent Post, SM is offering his favorite and least favorite moments of the 2010's. Overall, though these teams lacked some of the superstars like Mays, McCovey, Marichal. Bonds etc.,...
Shame on the Giants for Dishonoring the Franchise
By SurfMaui Please allow me the privilege of expressing my outrage, disgust, and profound sadness over the Giants' failure to sign Madison Bumgarner. I have been a Giants fan since the early 1950's. I distinctly recall listening to a Dusty Rhodes home run in the 1954...
Haak Away Guest Post: 2019 MyGuy Results
by Haak Away MyGuy2019™ ... "In the Books" MyGuy™ means spotting the Giants prospects that are undervalued at each level. It is picking players that did not stand out the previous year but you say, "He will have a breakout season." Twenty of us spoke up and stuck out...