SB Nation User Blog: SoFa King Mike

Giants Exec Pat Gallagher Leaving Organization

SoFa King Mike — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:51:58 -0000

Giants Exec Pat Gallagher Leaving Organization

Gallagher is credit with creating the Crazy Crab and the Croix de Candlestick pins. He also oversaw the development and marketing of Pac Bell Park.

Caption Contest HO!

SoFa King Mike — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:02:29 -0000

Caption Contest HO!

McCoven Night at Muni Stadium

SoFa King Mike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:38:12 -0000

First off I would like to thank delorean for putting this all together, and it was a pleasure to meet Giants Fan in Singapore, delorean, Walrus Man, and the Baroness. It was an entertaining night of great Single-A baseball, McCoven memes being blurted out (constantly) and shaking our fist in the air from checking in to the game in Chavez Latrine.

It was chilly night at Muni, but a lot of heat was thrown by Tim Alderson. Buster Posey decided to make it a show and end up a triple short of a cycle.

It was exciting for me to see AnVil live, and in person. I keep forgetting he is 18. But my goodness, his bat speed is fantastically quick. He made some great defensive plays as well (!?!).

Here are some pics I took. Sorry, as the night was coming in, the zoom on my point and shoot started acting up.

Tim Alderson warming up in the bullpen with...

Gerald

Identities revealed... Walrus, Giants Fan, and delorean being harrassed by the churro guy

AnVil approves.

Bored Noonan is bored

You might not be able to see it, but We noticed MadBum is a big fan of Blue Raspberry DumDum Lollipops.

Yezzir

Gigante

The Baroness keeping score

Group victory shot

Rally Matt Cain Thread 04/14 - 04/15

SoFa King Mike — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:21:49 -0000

GO!

It's a down time for Giants fans and I thought it would be appropriate to have a rally Giants thread. But, the team is just pissing me off as a whole (besides Dwight & Fred), so they don't deserve the honor.

So this thread is dedicated to Matt Cain, the lord of all that sucks in the world of baseball. Matt Cain will probably fail and will end up the suckiest of the entire rotation.*

*(just kidding... Matt Cain is awesome)

BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A.

Comcast To Air 14 San Jose Giants Games on Channel 104

SoFa King Mike — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:25:24 -0000

From the SJ Giants site:

The following is Comcast Hometown Network’s tentative San Jose Giants baseball telecast schedule for the 2009 season:

Thursday, April 9, 7:00 PM, Stockton Ports @ San Jose Giants
Thursday, April 16, 7:05 PM, San Jose Giants @ Stockton Ports
Friday, May 1, 7:00 PM, Modesto Nuts @ San Jose Giants
Friday, May 22, 7:00 PM, Modesto Nuts @ San Jose Giants
Friday, June 5, 7:00 PM, Bakersfield Blaze @ San Jose Giants
Friday, June 19, 7:05 PM, San Jose Giants @ Stockton Ports
Thursday, June 25, 7:00 PM, Stockton Ports @ San Jose Giants
Saturday, July 4, 6:30 PM, Modesto Nuts @ San Jose Giants
Friday, July 17, 7:00 PM, Modesto Nuts @ San Jose Giants
Friday, July 31, 7:00 PM, Rancho Cucamonga Quakes @ San Jose Giants
Saturday, August 1, 6:00 PM, Rancho Cucamonga Quakes @ San Jose Giants
Friday, August 14, 7:00 PM, Stockton Ports @ San Jose Giants
Friday, August 21, 7:05 PM, San Jose Giants @ Stockton Ports
Friday, August 28, 7:00 PM, Lancaster JetHawks @ San Jose Giants

*SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

The LIVE games will be replayed several times on Comcast Hometown Network (Channel 104), and will also be available any time of the day or night via Comcast's popular ON DEMAND platform, which is free to Comcast digital customers. To view California League baseball games ON DEMAND, Comcast Digital Cable customers can tune to Channel 1 on their Digital Cable lineup or press the ON DEMAND button on their remote control, then click on the "Get Local" section, then click on "Local Sports."

The San Jose Giants open their 2009 season on Thursday, April 9th at Municipal Stadium vs. the Stockton Ports. The Opening Night Extravaganza will include a post-game fireworks display presented by State Farm, 2009 magnet schedule giveaway, the return of Gigante and much more. Box Seats and Upper Reserved Seats are already SOLD OUT for Opening Night but plenty of General Admission tickets are still available. For more information on tickets for the 2009 season please call (408) 297-1435 or visit www.sjgiants.com.

Ozzie Guillen. Not a bad guy. From the Chronicle: White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen found a way to...

SoFa King Mike — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:15:07 -0000

Ozzie Guillen. Not a bad guy.

From the Chronicle:

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen found a way to honor the fallen (Oakland) officers, writing "OPD" on the front of his cap with a silver marker.

"There's no reason to take a person's life," he said. "It's a hard day for the Bay Area. I've never seen anything sadder than a police funeral. If it's police or fireman or military and you take their life away because they're protecting our country, it's a sad thing. It's a sad day not just for the Bay Area but the United States."

Schilling Retires Bloody Sock to Rafters

SoFa King Mike — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:36:20 -0000

Schilling Retires Bloody Sock to Rafters

Goodbyes and/or parting shots?

Does he deserve a HOF plaque?

Sadaharu Oh vs. Hank Aaron Home run derby before an exhibition game at Korakuen Stadium in...

SoFa King Mike — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:29:26 -0000

Sadaharu Oh vs. Hank Aaron

Home run derby before an exhibition game at Korakuen Stadium in 1974.

Found this while looking for Yu Darvish vids.

San Jose still seems to be Giants territory

SoFa King Mike — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:51:40 -0000

San Jose still seems to be Giants territory

Commissioner Bud Selig visited Scottsdale Stadium on Sunday and met for an hour with Giants managing general partner Bill Neukom and President Larry Baer. Baer would not discuss the meeting but hinted Selig affirmed his public stance that he will not allow the A's to breach the Giants' territorial rights to San Jose.

Suck on that Lew Wolff...

/crosses fingers

JuggerNate: hated by 1/5 of the world

SoFa King Mike — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:56:58 -0000

JuggerNate: hated by 1/5 of the world

"The next few days after (the Yang collision) I had a couple of people in China approach me, females, actually, and say, 'You know the whole country hates you,' " (Schierholtz) said. "It was kind of funny."

Awesome.