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UPDATE ~ Here we go again! ***

Posted on February 1, 2025 | Leave a comment

I love Baseball and it’s probably been in my blood since forever. The Blog started back in 2010 and I’ve posted over 425 articles since then. Some whimsical, some serious. This is my first update.

In response to my most recent post Pitcher Blake Snell, has signed a 5 year, $182,000,000 contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thank you God and thank you Buster Posey. Well, I can’t be positive Buster was involved but in my mind he was and, as I tried to explain in my last blog, I think it’s a blessing we let this one go. I know, good grief, he’ll probably take the Dodgers to another World Series, but in my mind the spirit of the team will remain intact. It’s about time we started another run like we did in 2010. Life is good and with Buster and Bob Melvin at the helm and running the show, we’ve got the right stuff.

February 9th is Super Bowl Sunday, Spring Training starts on February 22nd for the Giants, and then we get to start all over again. I have a small income tax practice so never get really excited until mid April, when we break for Extensions and baseball really gets going. This might be a building year, but the possibilities are exciting.

Thanks to all of you who’ve been with me for so long, like family:)) I can hardly wait to get back into this again. So much to do, so little time!!

*** Note! This is getting so popular it appears an overzealous “fan” hacked into my website!! Awful huh? Anyhow, I had to change the official “Domain” from Garlicfriesandbaseball.com” to the new Garlicfriesandbaseball.FAN ! Catchy huh? They’ve even published my Photo and Biography on their site. I can’t afford to hire an expensive attorney so I’ve decided to take this route. Check it out and let them know what you think. I’m a bit testy about it right now:))

Super Bowl next Sunday! Who’s everyone cheering for? Results posted on my next Blog!

BACK IN THE BATTER’S BOX…..ER, CAGE!

Posted on February 24, 2024 | 2 comments

It was a short process, nursing the wounds from the Super Bowl but honestly, it was a really good game so it’s sort of hard to be disappointed for too long. And besides, today was the first exhibition game of Baseball’s Cactus League and the San Francisco Giants were in it, kinda, sorta.

So I’m reading Evan Webeck’s article in this mornings Sentinel that casually mentions our newest center fielder, Jung Hoo Lee, was nursing a sore side from, (get this) “from swinging in the cage”. Really? Swinging in the cage? He should be ready in a couple days according to new Manager, Bob Melvin. And the other new member of the team, Jorge Soler, was in “bubble wrap”. Melvin had already explained when they acquired Jorge he’d be bubble wrapped to “ensure he breaks camp healthy”. Whoa. It sounds like it’s going to be a long season folks.

The final score of this exhibition game was Chicago Cubs 8 – SF Giants 4; with the Giants scoring all of their 4 runs in the 9th inning.

There is a bright side though and it happened back on October 25, 2023, when Bob Melvin was announced as the new Manager for the Giants. You can’t help but love this guy:)) His first press conference brought it all home as he actually played for the Giants back in 1985 for a few years. The reason I’m so excited sounds corny but it has to do with the differences between him and previous Manager, Gabe Kapler.

This goes back a few (okay many, many) years to when I was a teenager. It’s mentioned in one of my early blogs. I used to score daytime games for my dad so when he got home we could talk about it. And the only way I could do that was to get the line-up from the morning paper and have my scorecard ready to post. Back in the old days the lineup was fairly static, not a lot of changes from game to game except for the Pitcher of course. But the catcher, basemen, fielders, were pretty much established for each game. At least that’s how I remember it, those many years ago:))

It was a disappointment to see Blake Sabol and Patrick Bailey, Joc Peterson and others sitting on the bench, not always of course. I’m sure every Manager has their own way of doing things. But I’m hoping for a familiar line-up most games. I never did figure out the Roger twins, unless they were pitching, then it was easy.

I’m blabbering I know, but I’m just excited about the possibilities our new Manager brings. He reminds me a lot of Boche and what else could we ask for? Welcome home to San Francisco, Bob Melvin! We’re so glad to have you in our organization:))

“PLAY BALL” !!

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UPDATING THE BASEBALL RELIQUARY!

Posted on September 10, 2023 | Leave a comment

I’ve spent the past few days researching a Blog I wrote back in 2014 about the Baseball Reliquary in Whittier, California. I’ve always loved the idea of it and was interested in its survival, whether it made it or not (the institution, not the blog:)) To tell you the truth, when I wrote that particular piece I was a bit concerned as I’d included a rather risque photo and a kinda, sorta irreligious quote. I mean, you know, reliquary defined is about religious stuff.

But I posted it anyway and hoped for the best. It had to do with Annie Savoy’s now famous “Church of Baseball” in the movie “Bull Durham“. Come to find out the man who wrote the screenplay, Ron Shelton, also produced and directed Bull Durham and, get this, he’s also a Member of the Advisory Board for the “Baseball Reliquary”. Who knew? Whew! It made me feel at least a bit vindicated for my sort of religious transgression. I mean, he did it first:))

Check it out online ~ the Baseball Reliquary. It’s a fantastic tribute to everything baseball. Also, “The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Mischievous Cousin” by Scott Miller, New York Times, gives us some entertaining background of what’s been happening with the Reliquary these past few years. It will make you want to go there!! …. if you haven’t already decided to.

A special thanks to Joe Price, Director of the Baseball Reliquary and The Institute for Baseball Studies, for his interest and support in what I’m trying to do here.

Oops! Almost forgot. Here’s the original blog from October 15, 2014 in case you missed it: https://garlicfriesandbaseball.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/baseball-reliquary-you-say-what-the/

THE SOUNDS OF BASEBALL

Posted on May 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

“SOUNDSOFBASEBALL.COM“

There’s a new kid on the block, the result of a terrific website that literally outgrew itself. Jam-packed with over 400 audio clips and several thousand photo’s its popularity as an online baseball library continues to grow.

“Sounds of Baseball” is the dream of Steve Contursi, a teacher and non-apologetic baseball aficionado from Catskill, New York, and is the culmination of years of work on an archaic system of programming known as “coding”. It involved the ideas around what it could, should, and would be, and eventually ended up as an informative website that was like no other.

Most of the data on the website could be found somewhere else in the blogosphere, but it would have been a real challenge to find a website that contained all of this specific type of data in the same place.

This was and this is exactly what he did. Over time and with much patience, “Sounds” reached the level of top-rated baseball websites by the top search engines.

However, change was occurring fast in the internet world and with that came many challenges. A call was put out to the baseball community for someone to help with a transition to a more user-friendly website.

Along came Ronni Redmond of Santa Cruz, CA, a baseball blogger with a small amount of baseball knowledge, and not a lot of computer experience. But she wrote a decent blog, had an insatiable appetite for anything baseball and lots of chutzpah and opinions.

This is the new “Sounds of Baseball”. Its foundation is the original “Sounds” with a few little ditties thrown in and published in a Word Press format that’s much easier to maintain. The Site will be evolving as new material becomes available. Goodbye to coding and hello to the formation of an unlikely pairing of a fan of the New York Yankees and a fan of the SF Giants and all teams in-between.