sanfranciscosangel:

Dear national sports media media, each of you writing your own overly intellectualized piece on Buster Posey,

I, a San Francisco Giants fan, understand that Scott Cousins did not break any rule.

I understand that there are decades of precedent of physical plays at the plate.

I am not a moron.

I do not want Cousins suspended, fined, or reprimanded in any way. I do not want him to die.

Most of you preface your arguments with statements to the effect of, “We feel bad for Buster” and, “what happened was horrible,” and that is exactly the point.

What happened was horrible and I have spent every moment since it happened wishing it had not and feeling sick.

Every time you click send on your jackass articles about how the play was “clean” or that “that’s baseball,” that sickening feeling in me is refreshed like someone pressing replay on a DVD of ‘Requiem for a Dream.’

You are not wrong.  You are too loud.

Please shut your mouth.

Sincerely,

A Giants Fan

I’m just going to leave this here.

The _L Central says “hello”. 

:’)

“I’ll always take care of him. I wish him a happy 80 more,” said Giants equipment manager Mike Murphy, a bat boy when Mays and the Giants moved west in ‘58. “I think of him as a father, and he thinks of me as a son.”…

…“Willie walked into the house and figured out the situation immediately,” Simmons recalled. “He said, ‘Come here. I need your help. These are my car keys. I need you to go out to the trunk and bring in a dozen baseballs. This is very important. Do you think you can help me?’

“And the kid just lit up. And when Willie walked into the sick kid’s room, that child just lit up, too.”…

…”Willie, it’s a lifetime contract. You know what that means, right?” Magowan said.

“I know what it means. I still want an extension,” Mays replied.

And so it was that Mays negotiated a deal that stretches into the afterlife. He will be paid one year after he’s gone, as an added extra layer of security for his wife, Mae, who has Alzheimer’s.

Someone tell me why he’s in Fresno.

ETA: The Grizzlies game isn’t over.

Best news of the night. 

toushaye:

SOCKS.