Kirk Victor

Diehard SF Giants fan. Nothing here but my random thoughts. I covered the Senate and White House for National Journal.

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

“Disgrace” doesn’t begin to capture the racist, pathetic Secretary of Defense.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

A disgrace.

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Logan Webb is the face of the franchise. We have plenty of others we can trade—pretty much all the veterans. Let’s make Webb untouchable.

[Coast to Coast Baseball @C2Cbsbl]

As much as it would hurt, I really hope we trade Logan Webb

The prospect haul we would pull in could really help kick start an already promising rebuild

He would have to request a trade tho, because we won’t do this cold turkey
#SFGiants

[UKRAINIAN SQUAD🇺🇦 @ukrainiansquad]

Don’t stop supporting Ukraine! 🫶�

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD

https://t.co/Dz1WySs2E8

[Marty Lurie @baseballmarty]

Giants down 9-1 in the seventh and win in the most dramatic way..Knicks down by 29 at the half and win in the last second..sometimes you just have to watch sports and you’ll then realize you never give up until it’s over..unreal finishes..never give up!

[Alex Pavlovic @PavlovicNBCS]

Bryce Eldridge on the walk-off slam: “I want to be the face of this franchise … I want to be in that moment. I want to be that guy, so it was pretty special.”

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Current thoughts?

[Bonta Hill @BontaHill]

This is a bad baseball team. The Nationals are treating the #SFGiants like a junior varsity team. This is flat-out embarrassing.

[SFGiants @SFGiants]

WHAT A COMEBACK

[Jeff Young @BaseballJeff1]

The #SFGiants win on a walk-off grand slam from Bryce Eldridge. Unbelievable.

[SF Giants on NBCS @NBCSGiants]

BRYCE ELDRIDGE WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM TO COMPLETE THE COMEBACK 😱😱😱

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Good for you. I still am waiting for Collins to explain her view that Kavenaugh saw Roe v Wade as “settled law.” He’s just as cavalier in overturning other “settled law,” including voting rights. Collins also backed Kennedy as HHS chief. She’s out of step with her constituents…

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

I always supported the re-election of @SenSusanCollins, she's a hard-working, impactful legislator who takes her role seriously and serves her state well.

But the case for, and likelihood of, her re-election is all the stronger this morning.

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Hilarious! I needed a laugh. Thanks.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"One day Gates Brown wasn't in the Tigers starting lineup, so he grabbed two hot dogs from the clubhouse.
Manager Mayo Smith told him to pinch hit. He stuffed the hot dogs in his jersey to hide them from his manager.
"I always wanted to get a hit every time I went to the plate.
This was one time I didn't want to get a hit.
I'll be damned if I didn't smack one in the gap and I had to slide into second-head first, no less.
I was safe at second with a double.
But when I stoop up, I had mustard and ketchup and smashed hot dogs and buns all over me.
The fielders took one look at me, turned their backs and damned near busted a gut laughing at me.
My teammates in the dugout went crazy." Gates Brown was then fined $100 and when Mgr. Smith asked him what he was doing, the hitter came clean:
"I said, 'I was hungry.
Besides, where else can you eat a hot dog and have the best seat in the house?'"
“I took a little English, a little mathematics, some science, some hubcaps, some wheel covers.”
Gates Brown when asked what he had majored in back in high school.
Signed from Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio by scout Pat Mullin.
The location form, “The Shawshank Redemption.”

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Lordy, you’re digging.

[SFGiantsGuy @SFGiantsGuy_]

This team is AWFUL awful but you know what? I’d rather be really bad or really good than stuck in the middle like they’ve been the last 4 seasons. Maybe this season is a wake up call. Silver lining.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Angelina Martynyuk died on July 26, 2025💔.
She served as Senior Sergeant and commander of the reconnaissance section of the 155th Mechanized Brigade.
She was killed during mission near Pokrovsk.

So young and so beautiful, she was only 20 years old🙈💔

Rest in peace, hero🫡🙏

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

Russia has lost its confidence. Putin is out of sight. His generals were prepared to fight the last war, not the high-tech drone centric conflict that has stymied the bear.
Slava Ukraini

[Michael Monreal @ByMMonreal]

Bryce Eldridge ranks among qualified NL rookies:

.300 AVG (1st)
.385 OBP (1st)
.500 SLG (1st)
.885 OPS (1st)
148 wRC+ (1st)
92.7 mph EV (1st)
57.4% HardHit% (1st)
12.5% BB% (2nd)
22.1% K% (10th)

Slowly inserting himself into the ROTY conversation? #SFGiants

[Пропаганда Одеси, Феодосії, Львова і Черкас @Shizuka_47]

Сьогодні помер ��ій тато, людина яка воювала з 2014 року за Україну. Він був добрий, смішний, мріяв повернутися в рідну Феодосію. Давайте сьогодні нагадаємо про нього, навіть якщо ви не були знайомі

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Not good-but rather than Monday Morning QB, why not ask why nobody was up in the BP as it quickly was evident he didn’t have it: threw one splitter after another…Posey failed on the bullpen. One crushing, demoralizing loss after another—whether to the Rockies (!!), Cubs or Nats.

[Jeff Young @BaseballJeff1]

Keaton Winn is throwing for the third time in as many days.

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

On Sunday, my friend Gordon Wood was struck and killed in a car accident. Gordon taught history at Brown Univ. and was among the most accomplished historians America has produced. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, and his earlier book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 took the 1970 Bancroft Prize. He also received the National Humanities Medal.

He was, in my view, the finest historian of America's founding—which makes it all the sadder that he did not live to see the nation's 250th birthday. His reputation reached popular culture, too. Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting invokes him by name in the famous bar scene, accusing a Harvard student of simply "regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about [...] the pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization."

I feel fortunate to have collaborated with Gordon on several projects. In a 2019 anthology I compiled, he wrote an essay on the possibility of a shared American narrative. He centered his argument on equal rights as "the most radical and most powerful ideological force" the Revolution unleashed. "This powerful sense of equality is still alive and well in America," he wrote, "and despite all of its disturbing and unsettling consequences, it is what makes us one people."

When I needed jacket blurbs for my new book Lincoln's Compass, coming out this November, I turned to Gordon. The fit was natural: the book argues that Abraham Lincoln took the Declaration's claim that "all men are created equal" as his guiding moral compass—and that he refocused the nation on that claim. Gordon, ever the gentleman, offered generous praise.

He was, in many respects, the dean of American historians. He will be very hard to replace.

[Kirk Victor @kirkreports]

Totally agree. We have no closer. Bringing Keaton in for a 3rd consecutive day was not ideal. A hit batter, a PB, a steal—horrible. Rockies scored 5 in the 9th to beat us; PCA hit it out w/ 2 outs in 9th on Saturday, and tonight: Buster’s neglect of the BP is a huge oversight.

[Sean Jordan @BaySean]

Giants would have 5 more wins minimum if they’d properly invested in the bullpen. One of the most predictable fails by the front office. Completely insane and maddening.