Here is the #SFGiants plan going forward. This team needs a leader w/vision and conviction. Since they seem to lack that, I’ll step in and do it for them. Here’s my plan:
-This club is last or near the bottom in every major offensive category so BOLD MOVES are required. Status quo won’t cut it.
-They just called up 2 hitters, a good start. One is a minor league hitter (currently)who’s hot(Bryce Eldridge) and the other is a major league hitter(Jesus Rodriguez) who’s real. Play BOTH bats everyday.
-Rodriguez’ bat is really necessary everyday. He’s that good of a hitter and this is that bad of a lineup.
-Think big. Consider all trade options. The only big contract that is move-able is Matt Chapman’s. If Buster tries to move Lee, Devers, or Adames’ contracts, other GMs will laugh and hang up the phone. So
-Wait for a contender to lose a 3B and then offer them Chapman and offer to pay ($ still owed)down to get a decent prospect back.
-Then Play Casey Schmitt everyday at 3B.
-Sit Devers for a full week and pray his bat wakes up. If it doesn’t, create an injury and let him figure it out away from 3rd/King for 2-3 weeks.
-Play Eldridge at 1B EVERYDAY and DH Devers when he re-enters. Why? Eldridge is improving defensively, and Devers is struggling with his over sized glove and looking shaky.
-Adames is a perennial slow starter. He likely heats up when the weather does.
-Trade for a ML caliber outfielder with a good bat and send Brennen/Encarnacion down. No more 4A guys. This outfield is Clearly a bat short.
-Get a new guy(Not Walker) to close with and better define the bullpen roles.
-Don’t pay a ton for an established closer. Instead Discover/invent a closer. Go look for a 5-6 inning SP who throws strikes who gets ripped 2nd/3rd time Through the lineup and let him close.
-Get some Starting pitching options ready at AA/AAA. The rotation has been a pleasant surprise but I’d expect both the rotation and the pen to hit a major wall in June and quality depth options will be a necessity. Buster needs to ANTICIPATE that and Be aggressive in seeking some viable alternatives. This staff is definitely headed for a 2nd half crash.
-Leadoff Jung Hoo Lee everyday. He and Luis Arraez need to be THE ignition, consistently at the top of the lineup.
-Put Ron Wotus in 3B coaching box. This is not a position for a young coach. Borg has hurt SF multiple times thus far.
I have a degree from Cal and couldn't afford my own 100yr old studio apt in Oakland until I was 32. My parents didn't graduate college and bought their first home at 25 off my dad's retail assistant manager salary. Was it because I have a cell phone and they didn't?
I’ve won championships in 5 different titles, two mvps, X Games medalist, took down dynasties, highest K/D ever dropped from an SMG in a grand final EVER… but that’s not what it’s about today. It’s about going through your lowest of lows to get to your highest of highs. Happy 4/23, what a pleasure.
YESSS!!!!! RAFAEL DEVERS HAS ARRIVED, WILLY ADAMES IS ADDICTED TO DOUBLES, LUIS ARRAEZ CAN’T MAKE AN OUT, BACK TO BACK SHUTOUTS!!!
GIANTS WIN!!!!!!! SEE YOU FRIDAY! 🖤🧡
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
"He tore my knee up. He slid and rolled his fat ass past the base, the son of a bitch."
Jeff Kent was asked about the knee sprain he got when Alex Rodriguez slid into him in 1998
Pam Bondi was the Attorney General of Florida when this "sweetheart deal" was made. Now she's the Attorney General of the United States. The corruption goes all the way to the top.