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Frank Novak Guest Post: What It’s Like Attending the Winter Meetings, Part I
by Frank Novak Dating back to about as early as having cable TV, as a baseball fan I couldn’t wait for the Winter Meetings. For me, it was turning on ESPN and seeing Peter Gammons report live with every scoop and rumor. From the time I was a middle schooler, long before I ever had any inkling that my life would one day take me there, I had this vivid imagination and picture of the hustle and...
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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...
Howard Beale Guest Post: Giants Pay Homage to 2017 Team in Fitting Fashion by Losing Another Sad Sack Home Game in What is Turning Out to be a Sadder September
by Howard Beale "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows they're bad..." I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! The Giants are losing terribly at home and there's nobody anywhere who knows what to do.. "We know things are bad....
Rob Deer Guest Post: Lindsay Wagner Nude
by Rob Deer Ok, you’re not going to see Lindsay Wagner nude but sometimes you have to resort to this type of click bait in order to garner Surf Maui’s attention, and Lindsay has been on my mind since engaging Greek Giant in a Bionic Woman vs Wonder Woman debate...
Frank Novak Guest Post: My Journey in Baseball, Part Two
by Frank Novak Part Two When I arrived in 2003, the ‘hostess city’ of Savannah, GA had amassed a long history of professional baseball, having had affiliated baseball for the better part of 100 seasons. Since 1927,, those games had been at Grayson Stadium. However as...
Frank Novak Guest Post: From the Bay to the Bushes
by Frank Novak My Winding Road into and Through the School of Baseball (First of two parts) When I head home from my ‘normal’ job to my two kids waiting for me at home, sometimes I think about how cool 12-year old me would think 23-year old me was. You see, like so...
Rob Deer Guest Post: What Would You Trade?
by Rob Deer Life is a trade-off. Far too often we are reminded of this fact as we are forced to choose between two options, sometimes the greater of two goods, more often, the lesser of two evils. Or maybe it’s a mental negotiation you entertain with yourself about...