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Mandatory

To all the regulars here, if you'd be so kind, please keep an eye out for a fan who goes by "agiantsfanforlife", aka, Lifer. He was a poster on the old daily MLB board, would make a great addition here. Is not the same person as on FB, I don't believe. There are others who are also MIA, such as IslandGirl and Ginogiants, and some beyond that which my fellow new-comers may wish to add to this list. Thanks.

So cool as long as no "Runniitt", "HatesBelt" or "SamKetchup" :-)

Yeah, we all have some of those, ha-ha.

SamKethcup sounds like one of our FoothillRyan Sybils?

Not at all. Ketchup was the personality level in between the obnoxious "Sam" and the despicable "runnit" - depending on just how nasty that person was feeling at the moment. I'm pretty sure that person was also "Maggie Horowitz" in the earlier TWG days.

Ryan is a genuinely warm hearted, good natured fan of baseball, in a very broad and general sense, who is struggling to convert more fully to the O&B. We have to support him in those efforts!

Public_Service_For_The_Ignorati aka PSI was also a long lost cousin of The Oracle.

HitMan was a Dodger Fan as was HeyHeyHey

Of course 2HoleHitting has been MIA

Prospect Check-In .. The Calvary is Coming but ... Not for Three Years
The "O" Brothers ... Canario, Luciano, Toribio ... 8 for 14 yesterday, with lots of power. ...http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/sta...
Yes, it is Rookie League but it is a good start against pitching on their level for now.

Canario looks ready for Salem. 7/12 1.893 ops.

I am in Salem July 19 for the funeral of an old professor and already see a S/K game on the schedule. Maybe I will have something to report here from our TWGMyGuyScoutingDepartment™?

Great. I was hoping to get up there for some games this year.

Canario was a double short of a cycle and Luciano was a single short of one. Quite a game for those three youngsters!

And to think Luciano is only 17. He has a lot of upside. Could accelerate through through the minor league system if all goes right.

This will be our last weekend in the house we’ve lived in since 1998, which already no longer belongs to us. (The buyers are letting us stay until the end of the month; movers come June 27.) What a weird feeling.

From where, and where to, are you moving?

We live in Davis and are just moving from one part of town to another. We sold our aging four-bedroom house where we raised our kids and are moving to a brand-new three-bedroom condo.

I would be curious as to some of the thought process you went through in deciding on a condo. Our children are now out of the house and we have downsized once since they moved out but intend to shrink our living space again. Trying to compare small house versus condo option. I am not a fan of yard work. Mrs. Watching likes to garden but could do so on a smaller scale.

We've been talking about it for years. We like to travel and go on day and weekend trips, so the lock-and-leave aspect is very appealing. Neither one of us is handy or a gardener, so a brand-new place with no exterior maintenance is a fit for us, too. It helps that our condo is in a new home development with lots of open space, walking trails, parks, etc., and has its own farming plots (it will have its own farmer's market). So we're giving up our own yard but not exactly moving into an urban jungle. We also insisted on a top-floor unit so we don't have people above us, and we have a nice view.

Basically, we're pushing 60 (next year), empty-nesters (even the dog died), and see this as an investment in our next 10-20 years, making life easier for ourselves. Davis hasn't had many opportunities like this over the last 20 years (we have a slow-growth ordinance), so the timing was right and we jumped at it.

I don't care for folks stomping above me either, but being cooler on the first floor in the summer is worth it!

Wise to be so forward thinking. Not dissimilar to our current train of thought. Mrs. W has done extensive work with "aging in place" concepts. We've learned most folks make decisions when a crisis descends. Very little pre-planning is done while still healthy and active. That leads to less than ideal decision making.

Trust this is a great move for you all. We are actively scanning the real estate horizon for a smaller fit. Of course, I am also looking at Golden Retriever rescue sites every day but don't share that little tidbit.

Best wishes for the transition. I have a friend who, after living 50 years in Humboldt Co., is moving to Kentucky. Now that will be strange, tbs!

lefty is moving in with me and my roomies bum and his wife.

Or else they give us Buehler, or horrors, call up a pitcher we’ve never seen causing chaos and mayhem.

It's sure to be one of those, there's just that much more torment in it.

Hey all you new guys on the blog, yeah, I'm talking to you RenoJim, Gordon, JayQ Texas, 20sharks etc, the team still sucks since you got here, get it together will ya? Don't you have more game than that?

Gordon Foothills been here since 2010-11 ;-)

“Gordon” is not a “new guy”

My father's first name was Robert, his middle name being Gordon, and he preferred to go by the latter. As a side note, I've known two other Roberts who preferred using their middle names, and in both cases it was Marshall. No offense to any Roberts in the crowd, ha-ha.

Oh that's Ryan? I figured he'd come back with a new identity that played on Rye.

He has a green-and-gold “tell.”

And you can’t fool DrLefty on that kind of stuff. I tried to explain to TO that you and our Italian friend were not the same guy, but I guess he valued his detective skills over my linguistic skills. His prerogative.

How about Bulleit Hills Ryan? Get it, from that whiskey?

You too, time to hit the commute, I've procrastinated enough this morning.

the only foul ball I ever caught was off the bat of Speier on his first trip back to the stick after being traded to Montreal

The only foul ball I ever got was at an A's game and was off the bat of Ernest Riles.

Champ RIP Summers for me

Only one I got was off the bat of Jay Buhner, on the first inter league game at the Stick. I don’t remember who won, but I do remember the bleachers riding Griffey all night long. A chant like Bonds MVP. He kept looking into the stands.

My only other chance was a screaming line drive that skipped on railing and took a wicked hop into my stomach and I whiffed. My son the ever supportive one told me I was embarrassing him with the play.

You're one up on me, never even got my hands on one. I cried my eyes out when they traded him and I think I was about 13 by then. Happy when he came back though and he did pretty well for the team in the late 80's.

Yeah, hated to see him go, glad he returned. But we should have just kept him. A little earlier, but George Foster too.

I have two but the first was off the bat of Willie Mays. He signed it for me many years later when he was working in Vegas. Year was 1951........been a Giants fan ever since.

I have a signed Willie McCovey ball, but I got it through other means. A student’s dad was in business with #44–the restaurant in Walnut Creek. The student knew I was a huge Giants fan and got me the ball as a gift after the semester was over (=no bribery!).

it's renojim not RenoJim. I don't care for capital letters. but we're all old timers so we can't really help that much. :-)

rENOjIM, got it.