From about 4 to about 9 PM tonight, the city will be essentially shut down. The Royal Exchange will be filled with lots of white people, guys in suits sporting orange ties, and women named Courtney giggling endlessly screaming, "Giants!" and sipping glasses of red. The word, "dude!" will ring from the Financial district to the Marina. God Bless the SFPD. I don't want to even contemplate what might take place come about 8ish. Crowds, especially drunken, unfiltered, men with loads of enough testosterone to fill the Panda's stomach can be irksome especially when the residue smells of extreme Budweiser.
Newscasters, especially some out-of-towners: "Go Giants!" to fellow anchor. Has all the authenticity of a pastrami laced with mayo on wonder bread. By the way, does anyone eat white bread anymore? And if so, what does one put on white bread? Peanut butter and jelly comes to mind but who would readily admit they eat peanut butter and jelly? (I do). It's an acquired taste.
This all, tonight, could be repeated on Wednesday if the Gints were to lose and thus, a Game 7 looms. Secretly, every bartender and restaurant owner downtown won't admit this publically, but another ball game would do wonders for the cash registers. I know Larry Baer was giddy that they played three games at ATM Park because you can never have too much money and by the time the Brinks trucks left 3rd and King, they had just enough currency to cover Panda's salary for 2015 and Larry's slush fund.
Assignment desk meetings this morning: Giants nonstop --every live shot destination: The ballpark first and then Momo's come 5, 6, and 11. Nothing else matters. God forbid there is actual NEWS, remember that, but I know I'm being cynical. The Giants are the NEWS, GAME ONNNNNN! (Oh shit, not her again). There's nothing wrong with the Giants owning the evening and the Bay Area TV and Radio airwaves on KNBGiants--after all, it's good for the city and local economy. It's especially fine that people have a mechanism for taking a momentary break from their bosses assholeness, tech gadgets, bottom lines, spread sheets and the like; screaming, ranting, yelling GO PEAVY! is a welcome break from Ebola panic, Obama, Obamacare, Google, Facebook, Tweeting, it's good to have a break. Personally, I will be holed up in a distant remote location away from the Pandamonium having a daydream about myself and Monica Bellucci alone at Tommy's Joynt, that's how I roll.
Only the Bay Area will be paying attention to tonight's (or a Game 7, if needed).
ReplyDeleteThe much-anticipated first College Football Playoff Poll will be announced tonight.
And...it's also opening night of the NBA.
If the Giants win, it will be buried on ESPN/Fox Sports.
Reporting from the Civic Center plaza celebration, Kim McCallister on KGO just said that the team is playing their game in KANSAS! Does she not know that the Royals play in Missouri?
ReplyDeleteSorry I left off the word City...I do know the difference. Thanks for listening and for the comment.
DeleteRich, today's post sure is filled with a lot of snark, even by your standards.
ReplyDeleteCan't you be happy that one of our local teams is in the World Series without putting down the Giants, the fans enjoying themselves, the City and the media trying to cover it?
If they were real fans, sure. All aboard the bandwagon. ALLLLLL ABOARDDDDDDDDDD. Let the sheep have their fun I guess.
DeleteI heard one Giants "fan" ask the other night, "so how many points do the Giants have now?" And another who had no idea that the team once played at Candlestick.
DeleteThis is their fanbase and it's annoying. And it potentially could get even bigger.
Does a loaf of sourdough count as white bread?
ReplyDeleteAt Subway yes.
Delete8:12: "Snark"? He just outlined the day. It's manufactured rah-rah from start to stop.
ReplyDeleteMLS and international "Futball" are the new rage in this country; just look at all of the fanaticism surrounding the San Jose Earthquakes, Portland Timbers, FC Dallas, etc.!
ReplyDelete"Experts" are saying that soccer is overtaking baseball in the US, and they may be right. Who in Kansas City will be paying any attention to those baseball games, when Sporting KC has an upcoming cracker of a match up against ever popular DC United (played at that gorgeous state-of-the-art venue, RFK Stadium)?
Portland who? Dallas what?
DeleteIn San Jose every weekend quite a few parks are filled with adult Mexican males playing huge soccer games. All with matching jerseys, sideline families that look like they're tailgating a 49ers game. Even food trucks and guys pushing carts. Thank God they finally put in porta-potties. I was tired of driving by and seeing guys and children urinating on the side of the tennis courts. Just once before I die I would love to see a few vans pulls up with ICE agents jumping out to see the chaos of running adults and overturned porta-potties. It would resemble the fight scene in Anchorman when the cops showed up. Cover that VDLC. RAIDDDDD ONNNNN.
DeleteYou actually published this comment Rich? Classy!!
DeleteNot a question of "class". Rich has always been one to tell the truth and not bow down to the politically correct liberal media bullshit. Free speech. It's the reason why you visit this website.
Delete"Classy!" c'mon 10:18, do you spend ANY time at all in San Jose?
DeleteRich sometimes lets the truth be told. Bless him, don't curse him.
I've observed similar behavior by soccer fanatics in the Santa Cruz mountains which is 99.9% white. Is there such a van we can send to take care of this white trash behavior?
Delete@3:01, they sell tamales and tacos and have 100's of illegal residents of the country playing soccer in the mountains, too? ay, caramba
DeleteThe whites I observe acting like animals prefer sugary drinks, hot dogs and chips. Their kids can't seem to focus on anything for more than 10 seconds yet get praise for everything they do. "Greaaaaat try little Johnny!".
DeleteSince they're all standing on Aztlan many would say that indeed they are illegal..
Natives were the original border hoppers
DeleteHey 8:32, fuck you and your imaginary Aztlan. Go back to your pyramids in Meth-y-co and rip the hearts out of young girls if that's your thing. We don't approve of savagery here.
DeleteAnd if you're so big on "Aztlan", why do you and your savage friends speak Spanish? That's a European language too.
Oh, and the most hyper unfocussed children I've ever seen are the obese little savages that come from the central American invaders here illegally.
10:36 sounds like the type of white savage I've observed in the mountains. The type who brought disease to the America's from Europe. I bet your arms and calfs are tattooed and you're missing teeth. Have you looked at the tubby lards in your community? Foster Freeze is not a vegetable.
Delete415 Media the place to come for a race war! Haha
DeleteAztlan is nothing but a myth created by the propagandists at the seditious and racist organization "La Raza" (translate that, OK?).
DeleteI take Caltrain home each night to the Peninsula and you have to wait an extra 15-20 minutes for them to gather and dump the beer bottles that people have drank and emptied on the way up. And it ain't even the first inning!
ReplyDeleteRich is sure digging deep to find some way to criticize the local media. Why?
ReplyDeleteBecause it stinks
DeleteI dunno - I think news station bandwagon jumping for the local sports team in lieu of reporting other important regional news, especially when the station is only hosting the broadcast or vainly trying to increase their ratings and steal some viewers because of it, is a relevant topic. The World Series is a big deal, but it is only sports and doesn't affect peoples' lives in meaningful ways that some other topic might. And I'm a Giants' fan, but I see Rich's point.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think Rich can't win for losing with people on here. Either he's hyperbolizing or downplaying - I think some people forget it's one man's blog.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is Rich Lieberman's blog and we can't help but notice that he insists on finding a way to ridicule the local media's coverage of anything and everything.
DeleteLieberman can't just sit back and enjoy the excitement of the World Series, he has to criticize the way it's reported.
You can bet that Karel won't be watching the game tonight!
ReplyDeleteWho is this Karel you speak of? Oh you mean Chuck? Isn't Chuck the one that blames Repubs. for everything that has gone wrong with his life? Similar to the not really that funny black guy.
DeleteFunny column. You can add the 20some women wearing the Posey jerseys.
ReplyDeleteAs the one time (and now bigger) KNBR host Farrell used to say, Larry Baer is counting money with his tongue, I still contend it was Farrell who coined the phrase, KNBR the sports leader, and not Raddy as he claims.
Farrell was on KNBR? Is he the national guy that sounds like he's smoked for 99 years? Worst voice on radio but good show.
DeleteFerrall was at KNBR maybe 15 years ago. I think he was only here a couple of years. He was a sensation at first, but people got tired of him fast.
DeleteOne observation the local sports media is too dumb to notice- ..Jake Peavy showed up at the presscon wearing Coke bottle thick glasses in horn rims. Maybe that explains the "mean squints he show on game days"...he cant see. The guy should wear sports goggles if seeing the plate is that hard.
ReplyDeleteAs I predicted..Peavy stunk out the joint.
DeleteStan, never predicted that Peavy would stink out the joint.
DeleteHey Stan, some stupid comment about Peavy's glasses isn't a prediction. Now you're claiming that was a prediction Peavy would stink out the joint?
Predictions are made ahead of time, not re-imagined after the fact.
I predict that the Giants lose Game 6 in a rout.
DeleteI also predict that they beat the Rangers in Game 5 in 2010.
Hey Stan- try to observe that observation is not a prediction.
Like so many other things, maybe Stan just doesn't know what the word "predict" means.
DeleteStan, you predict something by saying what will happen IN THE FUTURE, not the past.
I predict that the Giants win Game 7. Not sure about the score, but let me guess 3 to 2.
DeleteAlso,I could go on for paragraphs on Raddys views of today's game and a Giant win,but will sum it up: "Go home. Somebody won. Somebody wins every year. Close the door too.
ReplyDeleteHe loves sports!
Maybe Stan is hearing voices in his head but he sure isn't hearing the same Gary Radnich that's on KNBR radio 680 this morning.
DeleteStan either has hearing problems or thinking problems.
DeleteI need to start burning rubber again outside Stans house.
DeleteStan has grown on me. Seems like a nice guy and pays alot more attention to local media than most of us. Wacky? Sure, but in that crazy uncle sort of way.
DeleteHey, thanks 1254,I appreciate that. Geniusness is hard to explain,is true..
Delete"Geniusness is hard to explain,is true.."
DeleteRoutine grammar is also hard for Stan.
Anyone else notice how local anchors can go from reporting a murder with somber faces, to immediately slapping on a big smile and practically jumping out of their chairs the second they start talking about the Giants?
ReplyDeleteOh,you will LIKE this one: On Yahoo Sports Show, Steve Berman of "Guy who likes sports" blog and Martie Lurie who unlike Raddy cant wait to get to the ballpark,were asked to give the top ten postseason pitchers- all time. Sure they named Madbum..then Yankee this,Dodger that. and Lurie who hasn't said a good thing about Oakland since the A's gave him the boot for unknown reasons..and Berman who has the deer in the headlights look...NEVER mentioned Catfish Hunter or Dave Stewart.
ReplyDeleteThat's all about the socio economics of Oakland, bigotry!
Post season and Four World Series wins, didn't qualify Stewart or Hunter??.Martie must have been into playing Canasta in the 70's and 80's..not watching baseball.
Yes Stan, of course it's bigotry against Catfish Hunter. And BTW Stan, no one LIKES this one or any of your other ones.
DeleteYeah,and you don't even read my comments-right?.
DeleteGiants win tonight. Final score will be 3 - 1. Series over!
ReplyDeleteOops. Not quite. Better luck tomorrow.
DeleteNice prediction, 2:17. Don't quit your day job.
DeleteWorld Series coverage is overkill. KTVU devotes the first ten minutes of every 10 p.m. newscast to predictable, mostly worthless "team coverage." Tuesday night at least three KTVU reporters had live shots from S.F. Civic Center, all saying virtually the same thing. Then there was the obligatory live shot outside an empty AT&T Park. If that wasn't enough, around 10:40 viewers were subjected to a live shot from a Walnut Creek restaurant. The T-shirt printing story from Union City and the "San Jose Giants" who made it big were two pieces that actually were special and well-done. I don't recall that KTVU got this carried away, night after night, during '88, '89, '90 or '02 World Series when they featured Bay Area teams. This is like the movie "Groundhog Day." If all of pointless live shots Tuesday night weren't enough, at 11 p.m. KTVU did yet another live newscast with some of the same pointless live shots re-done. [Gavin Newsom always seems to find his way to the KTVU camera for interviews like a (dim-witted) moth to a dim light bulb.] This might be a turning point for where KTVU officially "jumped the shark" - the cross-fertilization between the game on Fox and the "news" on KTVU has been excessive. One bit of praise for KTVU - at least they had the sense to stop showing those "viewer photos" at each and every "bumper" throughout every newscast.
ReplyDeleteProducers are responsible for doing murders and shooting, immediately followed by baseball coverage. They format the shows and can't figure out how to do a proper transition.
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