(Part 3) 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

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.

Respect the rivalry, it's older than anyone alive.


relevant:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Giants-Dodgers-Cities-Rivalry/dp/0786416408


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/BAT_TO_HEAD.jpg/220px-BAT_TO_HEAD.jpg

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

It is on presale at Amazon now.

https://www.amazon.com/Baseball-Junkie-Aubrey-Huff/dp/0998440701/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1480460568&sr=8-4&keywords=aubrey+huff+book

POTG: Tomlinson and Pence.

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

https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Winning-Losing-Baseball-Business/dp/0999700103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518397248&sr=8-1&keywords=bochy+ball

Just Finished


Almost finished

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.