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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 2002. I had a ticket for game four in 1989 at Candlestick, but we know what happened then. However, unless your name is Mike...
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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...
Surf Maui Guest Post: Moe Berg & How Baseball Analytics Long Predates the 21st Century
by Surf Maui Many of you have undoubtedly heard of Moe Berg who played 13 years mostly as a back up catcher, after starting his career as a shortstop/third baseman for the Dodgers (then Robins), and then the White Sox, Indians, and Red Sox. Berg graduated magna cum...
Together We’re Giants Guest Post: Eeew!
by Together We're Giants Editor's Note: Sometimes the Together We're Giants commenters simply post everything there is to say. Below are highlights from last night's commentary. Fbchange • an hour ago • edited Yes offense is atrocious...but the pitching has been even...
Guest Post: Surf Maui’s Quarterly Giants Report
by Surf Maui The season is one-quarter over so on this off day, before the quick road trip to Arizona and return home it is time for Surf Maui to issue grades. PERSPECTIVE It is important to keep in mind that the 2018 Giants– despite biblical levels of injuries...
HaakAway Guest Post: The 2019 MyGuy Challenge
by HaakAway Four years ago we started holding each other accountable for our strident opinions and wild predictions on prospects. Our question was what player is going to rise and what player is going to sink. We blended this with our love of minor leaguers that just...
610nm Guest Post: My Japanese Baseball Excursion
by 610nm The TWG blog is a great place to share what we know about baseball, so let me share something about how our sport works over in Japan. And hopefully convince you it is there sport now too. Writing this has also given me a chance to read a little history, and...
HaakAway Guest Post: 2018 My Guy Results
by HaakAway MyGuy2018™ Results MyGuy™ means seeing Giants prospects that are undervalued. It is picking players that did not stand out in 2017 but you saw breakout seasons coming for them in 2018. What do the stats show us? Take a look. Let’s get the bad news out of...
Surf Maui Guest Post: Introducing the FLBRV
by Surf Maui As I had previously written, prior to Sunday’s debacle versus the hated Dodgers, GG had a 1-11 in record watching the Giants in person this season. The odds of that occurring (depending on the winning percentage of the opposing teams which he saw) were...
Surf Maui Guest Post: The Curse of GG Strikes Again
by Surf Maui Despite scoring five runs off Mr. April (Clayton Kershaw) and a heroic effort by the beloved Hunter Pence, the Giants failed in their effort to knock the Dodgers out of the playoffs yesterday. Don’t say that SurfMaui hadn’t warned you before...