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GBC Reader Vol. 2, Issue 2: 2017 Giants, a Work in Progress

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

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Well the first fourteen games (four series) of the season are behind us and a couple of things are already clear.

  1. The NL West is going to be a dogfight. The Rockies, Dodgers and D-backs all expect to be in the hunt.
  2. The Giants are unsettled in left field and in the middle inning bullpen.

Though we’re 5-9 and tied for last in the division with the Padres, we’re only four back because everyone in the NL West is actively beating up on each other. I have a strong feeling that’s how it’s going to be all year.

To get the Negative Nelly out of the way first, Grant Cohn of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat is convinced after just 14 games that the Giants “dynasty is over,” and that we are not going to make the playoffs.

Me, I am not so sure. There’s a lot of baseball left to play.

Pluses and Minuses

Johnny Cueto is 3-0 while Madison Bumgarner has yet to win in three starts. Once again a Cy Young campaign for MadBum’s hamstrung early. sigh.

Our Gold Glovers Joe Panik and Brandon Crawford look awesome, but we lost Buster Posey to a fastball to the head. John Shea wrote this excellent piece on the after effects of getting hit in the head by a 90+mph baseball. It is reported that Posey may play in the series against Kansas City that starts tonight.

Nick Hundley has been really good in Posey’s absence, a stable veteran behind the plate who instills confidence in the position of backup C.

Nuñez ABs are fun to watch and he is a demon on the bases, but his play at third has been up and down. Let’s hope it’s early season stuff. I really like the guy.

Brandon Belt and Hunter Pence are looking good at the plate.

Matt Moore looks good for about 78- 85 pitches and then the drop off seems a little crazy. The fact Bochy doesn’t feel he can trust our ‘pen hurts in Moore’s starts.

But Mark Melancon turned around after his weak opening day showing and has looked considerably better.

Jeff Samardzija, like last year, is probably going to take a few starts to get going.

Matt Cain got a win! (Olney comments below)

LF has been a problem and it was compounded when Jarrett Parker made a great play only to crash into the wall and destroy his clavicle – gone eight to ten weeks.

On to the Reader

With Parker going down Chris Marrero could be seeing more time in left field. Kaila Cruz thinks that’s a good thing.

We traded Clayton Blackburn to the Rangers for a 21-year-old unproven utility infielder named Frandy De La Rosa – Brisbee explains why.

Jake Mastroianni has a closer look at the pitching and offense two weeks into the season.

Buster Olney had this to say about Matt The Big Horse and his win.

The Giants’ Matt Cain is facing a similar transition to the one that CC Sabathia has had to go through — adjusting to the reality that he cannot throw as hard as he used to and learning to mix his pitches differently. In Cain’s most recent start against Arizona, he did what catchers and pitchers refer to as pitching backward — by throwing breaking balls in counts in which pitchers typically throw fastballs and using his off-speed stuff to set up the less frequent use of his fastball. Cain allowed one run in five innings. Sabathia recalled an at-bat in which he pitched to Russell Martin a couple of years ago, when the left-hander had it in his mind that he would bust a fastball past his former teammate — but the best he could do was 90 mph, which Martin clubbed for a homer. Sabathia says now that he wishes he had started altering speeds with his pitches earlier in his career.

  • Buster Olney on ESPN

If you haven’t yet read the sweet, sweet quotes in AlPav’s look back at Madison Bumgarner’s relief appearance in Game seven of the 2014 WS in KC, do it now.

Love,

MTK

The Trade Deadline Was Smart and Effective Use of The SF Giants System Under Sabean, Boch, and Evans

02 Tuesday Aug 2016

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A lot of fans were emotional yesterday upon hearing the news the SF Giants had traded Matt Duffy, but I was surprised long-time fan Grant Brisbee was among them – he practically wept. I figured old guys like us were used to the business of baseball and would leap to the evaluation of the statistics of the swap – which he did of course, through his tears.

Me, I found the trade an excellent use of a system we’ve developed with great effort and the right balance of stats and human evaluation in the near-decade since Barry Lamar stalked off into the sunset of post-Giants life.

Sure, I’ll miss Matt Duffy, but he only played for us for two years. It was an intense and impressive couple of years because he had to step into Pablo Sandoval’s big shoes, but I don’t grow that attached to players that fast no matter who they are. It takes me a while to want to make someone “untouchable,” as Posey and Bumgarner are.

Actually, I can remember when fans – terrified about the absence of Panda and failure of McGehee – wanted to trade Matt Duffy for a “real third baseman,” in his rookie year.

And speaking of Panda – a home grown third baseman who was with us through three World Series wins and instrumental in at least one – I do and will miss the Pablo we all loved: an incredible Giant, with huge personality, beloved for his simple, crazy humanity.

Besides, I know Matt Duffy has a long career ahead of him and will excel wherever he plays. I will be watching this guy for a few years to come and heck, he could end up back with us with the way the business of baseball works.

We have done what we set out to do. We have grown our talent at home and added missing pieces to create championship teams, not once, but thrice in the last six years. It has been a stunning achievement, and I think a lot of fans have taken the subtle moves for granted.

It was inevitable that at least one or two or even some of all this home grown talent would have to be used as chips to gain the missing pieces needed. In this case we gave up a lot to get the specific missing elements of our pitching staff, and I for one, am glad we had the guts and aggressiveness to go all-in.

I do not know if Matt Moore and Will Smith are the answer, but I DO know that once they get in Buster Posey’s capable hands for the month of August they’re likely to be much better prepared for a championship run than they have ever been in their lives.

What the Giants have done these last six years is almost unheard of in the modern era. We have kept our coaching staff intact, core players aboard in Posey, Bumgarner, Cain, Lopez and Romo. Turned homegrown talent such as The Brandons, Crawford and Belt, into All-Stars and snagged and locked-up Hunter Pence.

We managed Angel Pagan and Gregor Blanco in balance with rotating OFs. We squeezed the last bits of greatness from Cody Ross, Marco Scutaro, Ryan Theriot, Jake Peavy and Tim Hudson.

We’ve had great coaching at farm club levels resulting in consistently good play from rookies and newcomers to the team. Bruce Bochy is a first-ballot Hall of Fame Manager at this point, and his staff, again mostly intact (MISS YOU, FLAN!) are an amazing group.

If we had rested on our laurels and not made a trade for the essential relief and starting pitching support we needed, I’m not sure we could beat this year’s Cubs. Now I feel we have a legitimate shot not only to achieve that in Bochy vs. Maddon I, but go on to win it all.

Matt, you were a great Giant and that is what made you valuable and in-demand. We will miss you and I wish you all the best in Tampa. I am confident you will excel. I hear you are returning to SS and it must be cool to be with your Dirtbag mentor, Evan Longoria. Enjoy yourself and knock ’em dead.

Meanwhile, turning back to August …

Welcome aboard Matt Moore and Will Smith. Get your gear from Murph, perk up and pay attention. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND LISTENING TO BUSTER POSEY.

Let’s all pull it together and go out there and Even-Year-the-Shit-Outta-This-Thing.

Go Giants,

Love,

MTK

 

Some Thoughts On Film in the Last Five Days of 2007

01 Tuesday Jan 2008

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Allen, Downey, film, Gilliam, Godard, Jarmusch, Karthik, Kelly, Kubrick, Kurosawa, la jetee, Lee, Marker, Moore, mtk, sans soleil, Scott, shoot the piano player, Spielberg, Tarantino, Truffaut, Varda.Attenborough, Wong Kar-Wai

December 21-26, 2007
some thoughts on film after seeing:

Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil [1983] and La Jetee [1963]
Agnes Varda’s The Gleaners and I, and after two years [2000/2002]
John Cassavetes’ Shadows [1959]
Jean-Luc Godard’s masculin feminin [1966]
Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven [2002]
Abbas Kiarostami’s Five [2004]

and late on the 26th adding – la double vie de Veronique by Kieslowski

– all for the first time.
and enjoying Jarmusch’s Dead Man [1995?] for the first time in a dozen years.

also earlier this year, in June, marks my first viewing of:

Godard’s Vivre sa vie and Bande a part [early 60’s: ’63, ’64 …breathless is ‘60]
Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, Sanshiro Sugata and I Live in Fear [mid,late 50’s bxw] Fellini’s City of Women [early seventies]

Marker’s two works separated by 20 years and varda’s doc have uncommonly sharp and fluid writing, that merges seamlessly and profoundly with the audio and film – I find it confident.

Marker
Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve

Krasna is the author of the texts and the images (separately), Marker the editor, conceptualist. and choosing the woman to voice the thing is great third layer (nonlinear). she delivering: “he wrote” is mechanical-vox. AWESOME. [Kubrick’s HAL is a male, but tenor]

Sandor Krasna, Hungarian cameraman, b. 1932 in Kolozsvar, Budapest Film Academy made Erdelyi Tancok (Transylvanian Dances), and assisted in another film, left Hungary in 1956 (returned in 1966 does travel diary piece) chances to join with a volcanologist Haroun Tazieff (footage), travels, shoots Cabo Verde, Guinnea Bissau and Japan, where he stays longest and has a deep affinity for culture.

THE FELLING OF A GIRAFFE, the volcano claiming a town and images of his long years in Japan and visits to Africa, specifically Guinea-bissau and Cabo Verde? are the visually intense gems of sans soleil.

Marker’s contextualization of the letters of his cameraman is a masterpiece of editing but all of it is still less to me, now, today, 24 years later, than the wordless entirety of the felling of the giraffe. there’s IMAGE (seule) and TEXT (seule) … and then there’s crossing over into the merge and all the “infinity” that comes with it. But still there is this solitude right now, that exists – you can get people there … with footage, nearly raw, of the felling of a giraffe by rifle – for how many years more, we don’t know, maybe few.

Marker comments: “I write this in 2002, as a new wave is rising, of which my young comrades of Kourtrajme (french collective of actors, directors, writers, filmmakers) offer a heartwarming example, and which perhaps has already found its Breathless in Isild Le Besco’s Demi-tarif.” [[half price] made in 2002, young actress, maybe her only film, definitely her first. film about/involving youth.-helen]

and from the notes on Marker himself, comes this gem:
“… and quietly lending a hand to fellow committed filmmakers like Patricio Guzman, whose landmark film on the downfall of the Allende government, The Battle of Chile [1975], reputedly owed to Marker an indispensable gift of film stock.”

Kurosawa/Kiarostami
The intensely slow, long takes in Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood with a single move in the middle of the take (i.e. the wife moving slightly forward on the tatami mat and then stillness again), return with the stick on the beach in ONE of FIVE, Kiarostami for Ozu

Haynes
the period music in Haynes’ film isn’t from the period of the film. the male-male kiss here and her reaction is amazing. she is a genius. she is so good. how old is she?

Godard
by the time we get to masculin feminin, (hindsightedly) Godard’s conceit is played out: (fashionista, too chic) also, it’s all quite hetero-sexy and even the toilet kiss is played with such outsider

anti-vietnam punk, text blams all great. close-ups of cute girls (bo-ring). straight guys chasing cute girls (boring). sudden-gun-blam has become his trademark. by ’66.

Truffaut
December 30, 2007, sunday
just finished Shoot The Piano Player [1960]
Truffaut/Moussy [Goodis]/Aznavour

brill.
excellent passage when Saroyan’s wife lays into him for his “fame” and arrogance.
‘you repeat yourself ten times’

the flash to the fight poster just before the fight.

the too-slow before entering the impresario’s office to the wordless exchange of violin for piano music by the two musicians at audition

the flashback to his previous life as transition, fullness of this flashback (Pulp Fiction)

the “day that changes everything” starts with them deciding to quit. but it was the day that ended, the day before – when they escaped the bandits – that keys this.

a crime movie. an emotionless and sympathetic central figure (Bogart’s Rick).

and last night, December 29

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [2004]
Gondry/Kaufmann/Jim Carrey
[Alexander Pope as delivered by “Mary”]
hammer to kid thing is a moment. weird running though the psyche stuff.
the magicality of it ends up linearizing a mental territory that has multiple dimensions – I don’t like this. even in science of sleep I find it sorta lame … too linear a dimensionality even with all its magical elements is still too linear a dimension to describe the mind – the psyche. point. and it smacks of creative dearth. an engine running out of steam.

Last Day of 2007
a list of my contemporary favorite feature length
films/movies/directors of the last 50 years

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey [Kubrick]
2. Singin in the Rain [Kelly]
3. Dead Man [Jarmusch]
4. Throne of Blood/The Bad Sleep Well [Kurosawa]
5. The Nights of Cabiria [Fellini]
6. Vivre sa Vie/Weekend [Godard]
7. Jackie Brown [Tarantino]
8. Bladerunner [Scott]
9. Shoot the Piano Player/Small Change [Truffaut]
10. Do The Right Thing/He Got Game/She Hate Me [Lee]
11. Crimes and Misdemeanors [Allen]
12. Blood Simple/Barton Fink/No Country for Old Men [Coen Brothers]
13. Gandhi [Attenborough]
14. The Gleaners and I [Varda]
15. As Tears Go By/Days of Being Wild/Chung-King Express [Wong Kar Wai]
16. Sans Soleil/La Jetee [Marker]
17. Brazil/Time Bandits [Gilliam]
18. Putney Swope [Downey]
19. Bowling for Columbine [Moore]
20. Minority Report [Spielberg]

movie ticket stubs 1979 – 1988

09 Friday Dec 1988

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Movie ticket stubs from movies I went to between the ages of 12 and 18

1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1981 Chariots of Fire, Arthur
1982 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Conan

1983, 5 Hitchcock films were re-released to theaters after not having been released for more than a decade: “Vertigo”, “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, “Rope”, “The Trouble With Harry” and “Rear Window” – couple of the stubs are here

1984 Splash, Amadeus, The Karate Kid, Beverly Hills Cop, 2010, Footloose, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Dune, Ghostbusters, Revenge of the Nerds, Romancing the Stone

1985 Turk 182!

1988 Big

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