Matt Chisholm, VP of PR. Unrelated, but the Giants organization has a standard email address of first initial, last name@ sfgiants .com.

The baseball question is, “When you’re 15 games below .500 and have produced your share of totally horseshit moments on and off the field so far this season, is it worth rostering bigots who are at odds with your fan base and your franchise’s legacy?

It’s interesting to perform or allow a kind of demonstration like those hats, then act offended at the idea that anyone would have questions about the intent and thoughtfulness of said demonstration. Why would you perform or allow an action like that, THEN decide you don’t want to talk about it?

I thought Bochy and Dusty were brought in to be sounding boards and voices of reason for Posey and Vitello. Surely there's no chance either of them counseled Buster on this and told him he should go out there and say fuck all while embarrassing himself and the organization in the process. #SFGiants

Buster Posey is embarrassing himself in front of Buster Posey

Posey really nails what you're supposed to do in crisis-management situations. 1. issue an in-person statement, then refuse to take questions 2. quietly repeat the same phrase over and over 3. look at the ground a lot

I've decided to refer to him as Gerald from now on. Nicknames are for people you actually like/respect.

I have to drive home now. I imagine it will be a silent drive, while I contemplate whether or not I can continue supporting this team in any capacity. They always say sports will break your heart, I guess I just never thought it would go like this.

Holy crap the quotes were bad but the video is 100x worse. This is the poster for not meeting the moment.

This. Right now the anger is winning, so I'm letting that fuel me. But I'm also tremendously depressed about all of this.

Genuinely trying to imagine the post-press conference meeting. Gerald: "So I think that went well" Baer, who literally beat his wife on camera: "Absolutely, it did! Shall we go roll in our money?" Gerald: "Indubitably!"

Follow up: since the team sucks at baseball so bad, do you think it’s smart to also alienate the fans?

New slogan just dropped. "Giants Baseball: It can always get worse!"

I was thinking about that. Intentionally mischaracterizing the breadth and depth of fan anger shows a remarkable lack of knowledge about the city and its culture. It’s colossal disrespect and he does not care.

Every time I hope the San Francisco Giants have lived down to my expectations, they insist I lower them more.

"Buster, could spend a little time taking us through the decision to lose 100 games -- o-or more, if that's the plan."

I’m really hoping someone with the bandwidth and skill necessary orchestrates protests. Please share info, we need to let them know this isn’t going away #SFGiants

Calling a press conference to pointedly NOT talk about the only thing people wanted to hear about beggars description. It’s either towering incompetence, complete tone-deafness or appalling hubris. I‘m not sure how he or anyone else thought this would help.

Buster Posey is an embarrassment

You can trace the SF Giants' downfall to Peter Magowan stepping down as the control partner (and then passing away), the owners pushing out Bill Neukom as the control partner after the 3rd WS title & the right-wing Johnsons taking over. These guys just want to make $$. Don't care about baseball.

posey era in shambles

So, uh, fire Posey too. I wasn't there until now, but what a joke. This is why a team owner shouldn't be the POBO. I've said it since he was hired. It's a massive conflict of interest.

Refusing to talk about this fiasco when Hawley’s taking a victory lap and Manfred threw your organization under the bus is just cowardice.

The San Francisco Giants waited 52 years to win a World Series, won 3 in a row in the best ballpark in MLB, took over the sports culture in SF from the 49ers, and then POOF -- squandered all of it away. The team that was the envy of MLB is now a joke franchise.

Why the fuck even have a press conference if you have nothing to say?

If the primary identity of Buster Posey’s San Francisco Giants is that they don’t want to be in San Francisco, who gives a fuck what happens on the field

cooked. chopped, washed, fried. speedrunning the trashing of his own legacy; whether it’s on his own initiative or as scapegoat for the ownership group, doesn’t really matter now does it?

That was the statement of a cooked president of baseball operations on behalf of a cooked front office about a cooked team with a cooked manager. Everyone is cooked, a slow braise that's been smelling the house up all Sunday afternoon (it smells awful in there).

Cowardly

His players made Pride Night a baseball question by taking the actions they did.

Never has anyone dropped so far so fast on my respect-o-meter. What a fucking clown. jfc

Oooh, okay. Sure, then. Because we have so much evidence to believe this.

You can't revisit something you never visited in the first place. 🙃

If someone had asked me back in 2021 if I could believe that I would lose all respect for Gerald within five years, I would have smacked them for asking. And yet, here we are. 🙃

joke's on him, the baseball is shitty too

I have come here to sing the song of my people. *clears throat* STOOOOOP EMAIIIIILING MEEEEEE

coward

From @annkillion Rafael Devers’ disrespect of Tony Vitello deepens Giants’ leadership crisis. Where’s Buster Posey? www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki... via @sfchronicle

I'm going to need the reports of an actual zombie outbreak to just calm the fuck down and get in line with the rest of my nightmares. I don't want to entertain the possibility. But ooth I've read enough great zombie books to know that social media is exactly how we would find out about it.

Get this guy out of here immediately. www.mccoveychronicles.com/san-francisc...

buster's about to come out of hiding to address the devers thing and absolutely nothing else lol

we’ve got a clubhouse full of homophobic maga dipshits and this fanbase wants to villainize Rafi Devers, fucking pathetic

This TikTok comment is so good.

I mean it’s easy to say this, but fire vitello, and posey, and minasian, and every other member of the organization who knew. trade every participating player, or dfa them. want your queer fans back? make it blatantly obvious that you want us back.

This was an opportunity to educate these absolute troglodytes and instead the org helped them give the community a big fuck you.

Get this guy out of here immediately. www.mccoveychronicles.com/san-francisc...

Lol it took them weeks and it still didn't occur to them that they would suffer consequences

The dodgers are basically lapping the division for the foreseeable future and the Giants have been spending literal weeks trying to decide how they could show bigotry appropriately.