(Part 2) Top products from r/SFGiants

So, it's 81 degrees right now in Toronto, but, with humidex, feels like 104. Fuck, I hate this heat so much, really wish I was in San Francisco right now!

OK, I'll stop complaining about the weather and focus on the Giants. :) The guys have been absolutely rolling, let's hope they can keep this going for a little while longer!

I had a busy weekend, actually. On Saturday, I went to the Stratford Festival with my theatre Meetup group and enjoyed picnic lunch followed by terrific production of A Chorus Line. Fun day despite the hot and humid weather lol. Here's some photos:

• Me, in the gardens
  
• Festival Theatre
  
• Shakespeare statue
  
• Picnic lunch I purchased
  
• View during lunch by river
  
• Roses
  
  On Sunday, I went to my admin volunteer shift in the morning for this arts festival, and immediately had to dash to my YA Bookclub Meetup group meeting on the other side of the city lol. (If anyone enjoys YA books, I highly recommend the book we read for June book club.)
  
  Good luck to MadBum and the Giants tonight!

The Science of Hitting is a fantastic book filled with anecdotes, personal stories and great advice from one of the best hitters to ever play baseball. Even if you have zero intention of ever swinging a baseball bat you should read this because it is just damn good.


On the fiction side I just finished Castro's Curveball. Pretty entertaining. Kind of an alternative history story.


My secret Santa sent me the book 1954 which I will start today. I love Bill Madden so it should be a good read.

Band from the '60s. Leader was one Jim Morrison—genius-level IQ, kind of a Greek god incarnate, died young, pretty corpse. Oliver Stone made a movie about his (tragic) life. Music is pretty good, more or less stands the test of time. Worth checking out the greatest hits, at the least.

If you end up interested in Morrison, there's a good biography I read in the '80s: No One Here Gets Out Alive.

Edit: here's some more random details.

• Band name was inspired by Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception" (our senses)
  
• first hit: "Break on Through" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r679Hhs9Zs
  
• second hit: "Light My Fire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deB_u-to-IE
  
• other song you may have heard: "Love Her Madly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLdvnQD_eio
  
• other song you may have heard: "People Are Strange" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awi14wDTxNw

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it's not a game.. but it's still worth a listen.

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the Cubs' guy makes CDs

http://www.baseballvoices.com/

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Russ and Lon are disc only

http://www.baseballvoices.com/russlon.php

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Jon Miller's is on itunes. there are 2 tracks alone that are worth the price of admission and neither have to do with the Giants... and there's ample highlights not just for the Giants, but some of baseball's biggest moments.

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1. Open
   
2. Intro
   
3. Jon Miller
   
4. 2014 Giants Glory
   
5. Younger Days
   
6. Oakland 1974
   
7. Texas 1978-79
   
8. Rain Delay Convention
   
9. Boston 1980-82
   
10. Voice of the Orioles
    
11. Cal Ripken, Jr. 2131
    
12. ESPN
    
13. Barry Bonds
    
14. The Vin Scully of Japan
    
15. 2010 & 2012 Giants Glory
    
16. Radio Hall of Fame
    
17. Man For All Seasons
    
18. Cooperstown
    
19. Legacy
    
20. Credits
    
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    Jon Miller: A Broadcasting Legend
    
    https://music.apple.com/us/album/jon-miller-a-broadcasting-legend/1447980535
    
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    also.. the Baseball Codes (audiobook) is totally worth the listen.... and it's 10 hours.. you're driving back, right?
    
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    https://www.amazon.com/Baseball-Codes-Beanballs-Bench-Clearing-Unwritten/dp/030727862X
    
    The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime

Huh, interesting. Have you read many other nonfiction books about soccer? I've been thinking about picking up The Ball is Round. Looks like some interesting books.

I started Cod today and it's very good.

Just finished this book and it's pretty good! I look forward to using it as a referential tool.

And now I'm starting this..


Anyone ever read it?




lets go Pence.

This game reminds me of my favorite book as a kid: http://www.amazon.com/Only-Homers-Christopher-Sports-Classics/dp/0316139874

If your interested in Giants history you can also check out this book.

POTG: Tomlinson and Pence.

Bochy needs to burn his copy of The Matheny Manifesto by Mike Matheny.

That Book is available right now

This last week I watched Everest about the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy and I've been obsessed with it since.

I've watched 3 documentaries about it and currently reading/listening to Into Thin Air

Pretty haunting to be stranded at the peak of the world (29,000 feet high. For perspective, planes cruise around 33,000 feet high) where the air is so thin and lacking oxygen but you're trekking up near-vertical terrain in -10^o F temperature. Then a storm comes and you're hours from camp. You can't stop or you'll freeze to death but you can't see because everything is white.

I’m so excited for timmy day. I’m kind of torn. If he throws 95 again. Then everyone will want him. But if he still sucks then I guess we won’t want him. It’s bittersweet. But exciting. Until Charlie Morton I don’t know a pitcher could regain velo.

Currently reading on killing the psychological cost of learning to kill. Interesting book/study
, maybe only one of a few that deal with the subject. Makes me feel sad for the Vietnam vets that got totally hung out to dry by their own nation. Very insightful book until the end where the author goes off on a bunch of made up sounding strawmen anecdotes blaming video games , horror movies (Freddy Krueger and jason lol) for the epidemic of violence in our country. Saying we are doing to our kids via operant conditioning worse than what was conceived of in clockwork orange. Or any weird military experiments. U/beautifulunusual you are a trained psychologist have you heard of this book and have any problems with his conclusions?