. . . Oh, the mess I’m in.
Well, so much for a smooth recovery for Brock Purdy. He can’t even get the operation done. Purdy’s elbow is still too swoll to operate on, so they will re-evaluate in early March. Thus throwing the timetable back some. Which means that we have to hope Trey Lance’s recovery doesn’t have any setbacks. Which also means that Lance os gonna get a longer look than originally thought. Which I guess is a good thing.
After all, we need to know what we have in Trey Lance before handing the keys to Purdy, right? I mean, Purdy appears to be the real deal. But so did Jimmy G when he came in and won 5 games in a row. Even Nick Mullens looked like the real deal for a red hot minute. The NFL is a fickle mistress and one who is unkind to most everyone.
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Other than that, I’m pretty interested to see what our local baseball team does this season. The national scribes and local fans have written off the team and front office as being inept buffoons who fucked up wildly. Throw in the National Anthem protest by Kapler, and you have the requisite overreaction and a whole lot of whining by anyone and everyone.
Me? I think the team improved enough to reach the NBA-style playoffs. They gained a couple solid-enough OFers in Haniger and Conforto, the pen got decent by the end of the season, and they added Taylor (don’t call me Tyler) Rogers, a couple starters in Manaea and Stripling, Junis and Hjelle from the farm, Webb and Cobb, and DeScaffolding. From the bunch they should be able to build a good rotation.
The hitting is the main issue I have. Well, that and the defense, Both were sub-par last season. Sure, that has a lot to do with the rotating in and out of a bunch of AAAA guys, and the Misadventures of Luis Gonzalez. He hit well, but was pretty clueless in every other area of the game.
Should be a fun season if only to silence the nay-sayers.
Forty Niners Forever 
I’m sorry, this still cracks me up. I guess I’m easily entertained. “He can really bang… he’s a hand-eye coordination beast.” Sounds like a review of a Ron Jeremy performance….
Hah! Dick Pole of the Beavers up to bat. . . .
I never heard any of this stuff before. It really shows some of the creative genius Jimi had.
Random but pretty fun.
Nice.
Kat might be the only one who remembers this, but a few years ago when Zaidi took a flyer on Carter Williams from NC, I called him my guy. His dinger today keeps him alive, and I’m stoked for the kid.
Loco, I do remember Carter Williams and you pushing for him.He’s an intriguing OF prospect with good size 6’3 210 lbs and power and gets on base frequently. Think he might of hit a bomb today?in Giants win.Hope he keeps it up, played for SJ then promoted to AA Emeralds? Winder country up in Oregon.. I’m all for more OF depth!
Go Nuts!
An OF prospect? Be still my heart!!
Yeah an OF prospect could it ever be possible since Chili Davis back in the 80’s lol 😂??
I’m actually into the development of OF prospect Vaun Brown as well, dude put up incredible numbers at SJ then continued it at AA Eugene Emeralds, Between both teams he hit 24 bombs 7 triples,30 plus doubles, batted over .300 OBP .400 plus and stole 44 out of 50 bases.Read where he was only one of 4 minor leaguers that have ever done that! Hope he gets a hard look at ST camp!!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/edward-bear-ksan-dj-obituary-17797076.php
Let’s see how many old farts are out here from the bay area
Don’t remember this guy. The first DJ that I remember in my early stoner days was the Lobster on KSJO. Went down to the station and met him at some point in high school. M. Dung, the Weedman, Lamont and Tonelli. Can’t think of the others offhand.
Funny thing, Paul Tonelli used to work at the Burlingame Walgreens where I used to buy beer in my early 20s.
I did meet Dr. Donald D Rose and the pool hall (Town & Country) in San Mateo. The place is amazingly still there as The Great Entertainer. Spent 6th grade through high school hanging out there and shooting pool/playing pinball/playing (gasp!) video games when they hit the world.
Missed a few post, but how is everyone feeling about the pitch clock. I think it won’t affect the starts as much as the relievers, I get get so tired of guys bent over, arm swinging shaking off the sign, fucking pitch the ball. I also like the pitcher can only step off the rubber twice with a runner on first. Either throw over or pitch the ball. Not that difficult. Okay boys let’s hear your comments.
I hope it isn’t too intrusive. Not sure it’ll be too bad unless Scott Munter comes in to pitch.
Are Corey Gearrin the human delay of game expert!
The whole 2 throws to 1st is an overreaction. I get they want to bring back stealing, but this is gonna be a joke. Like the ghost runner at 2nd and the 3 ballers per pitcher, it’s a major shift in strategy that only fucks with the game as it should be played.
As far as the shift goes, meh. I don;t think it’sgonna change things like Manfred Mann thinks.
I met DJ Stefan Ponek from KSAN back in 1974 my senior year in HS, when we had a field trip to the radio station!Me and 2 buddies said screw the school bus and rode motorcycles up 280 at a high rate of speed to SF and got their atleast a 1/2 hr before the bus in time to fire up a joint lol 😂 Really cool 😎 dude as a bunch of us crammed into his radio booth as he was live spinning vinyls and taking requests, he had the 10-2 slot.Man those were great memories!!Sadly I heard he passed away back in 2001 of a heart attack..
RIP Stefan 🙏
The 70s radio was epic. So many good stations. There’s like 2 rock stations now in the Bay Area? There was KSJO, KOME, KSAN, KMEL, KFOG, and KFAT if I was in the right place. I’m sure there were a couple others.
KMPX was the one that got me started.
New thread is up……..