. . . 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 
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……..