I was up in the middle of the night watching Australian news coverage. They were asking Australians on the street for their reactions, and one of them said that, prior to today, they had only seen mass shootings through American TV footage. What a shameful and terrible legacy our country has.

Roger, like Trump and Epstein, liked underage girls.

@colemk.bsky.social Mail Bag Q for you and Alex 1/ Since Randy Winn’s elevation to VP of Player Development, I’m curious as to what changes the org has made, both philosophically and in practice on the field, to the entire player development system.

Drew Gilbert has golden retriever energy. This skip right after he hits it is like that split second after you throw the ball before you yell at your dog to go get it!

So many actors are in commercials now that seem to play almost every commercial break and I can’t express how much less it makes me want to watch them in whatever show or movie they’re in.

This guy is so impotent that even Viagra crushed into powder and cooked in a spoon and directly injected into his little baby weiner would fail to work.

You are just so, so bad at this. You would bring a nerf gun to a nuclear missile fight because you would be afraid someone would get their eye poked out.

Good kid, this Gilbert. “It’d be a random Monday and he’d grab a couple teammates and go down to Fort Sanders Medical Center or UT Medical Center,” Elander said. “He’d take some gifts and meet some of the kids. He’d just do it on his own.”

Can anyone guess the one thing Roger Clemens, Pete Rose, and Donald Trump have in common?!

How long can you keep doing it? How many more years can you send Patrick Bailey out there to have non competitive at bats? #SFGiants

I very much enjoy Joe Ritzo’s call. I know he bounces up and down between SF and San Jose now but when the inevitable comes and Kruk, Kuip, and Miller retire, we’ll be in really good hands with Flemming and Ritzo as play by play. #SFGiants

Do you think at this point Justin Verlander is like, “Damn I’m married to Kate Upton. I just had a baby. Do I really need to hang around for 5 more weeks?”

The Giants traded Camilo Doval because they could replace him with the best relief pitcher in 2025 only for that relief pitcher to turn into Camilo Doval in the 9th inning.

👏👏👏 #SFGiants

The first non home run run scored of the series!!! Padres defense is falling apart! #sfgiants

Hayden Birdsong walked 5 in 3 innings tonight and now has a 5.59 ERA in 19.1 innings since being sent down. He’s been worse in AAA than in the Majors. #SFGiants

I’m not exactly sure how to look this up but I feel like the Giants have to lead all of MLB in pop ups #SFGIANTS

Target also kind of sucks. Wal Mart has a better and more diverse line of products

This is not a good baseball team. And this won’t be a good baseball team for a long time. I’ve been optimistic for years but I think that’s finally dead. It’s also just a really boring watch. #SFGiants

@colemk.bsky.social @alexpavlovic.bsky.social Hi guys, Love the pod. Alex, I’m wondering if you can talk about the changes Buster has made to the development philosophy in our minor league system. I know he’s talked about finding guys with better contact rates and gap to gap power, /1x

My main concern for Trump Zelensky meeting is that Donald tries to read the original Russian version of his statement.

Bo Davidson, who was crushing A and A+ ball, has struggled since his call up to AA. In 83 at bats his slash line is sitting at .205/.290/.313. #SFGiants

Bryce Eldridge OPS in AAA has now dropped under .800. His OBP is sitting at .300 and he’s now struck in 37% of his at bats. Maybe we need to pump the breaks on a September call up or maybe even a 2026 roster spot. He’s still only 20 years old #SFGiants

Lee leads off with a double.

Does anybody in Giants organization still have Victor Conte in the Rolodex? I have an idea. #SFGiants

NBC Sports Bay Area running a sad dog fostering infomercial after the Giants Post Game show is low key genius. Depressed people are statistically more likely to adopt a pet. #SFGiants

Tyler Fitzgeralds 3 strikeouts tonight were on 10 pitches. #SFGiants Nothing Like It.

Justin Verlander just passed Walter Johnson for 9th place on the all time strike out list. Even in bad, bad few months for the Giants, baseball remains so cool.

The difference between Devers striking out vs Ramos striking out is that while Devers may miss, he at least looks like he’s not flailing like he doesn’t even see the ball #SFGiants And Adames steals a bag!

You can break down 2025 in many ways but the Giants are here now because they haven’t drafted and developed well for over a decade. This will take years to fix. There’s been no PCA, Witt Jr, Chourio, Anthony, Kurtz, etc. No core to build around. Since Sabean it’s been directionless. #SFGiants

Don’t understand why Melvin didn’t pinch run Gilbert for Wilmer if he was gonna pinch hit Dom for Fitzgerald. Got speed for your lead runner who then goes to right and Dom Smith stays at DH. Instead you just burned Dom’s bat for the rest of the game. Am I stupid? #SFGiants

This Giants teams is turning into a comedy of errors.

New blood incoming! #SFGIANTS

On September 7, 2008, 54,000+ fans packed into Dodger Stadium to witness an epic duel between Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux but both pitchers were scratched before the game. Their replacements were Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw! And they face off again tonight!

Alright Buster, you tried. This is just embarrassing baseball and this is becoming an embarrassing organization. Please sell and don’t run out the same players next year thinking it’ll get better. Also, fire everyone in baseball development. #SFGIANTS

My baseball broadcast hot take is that Statcast Sunday Night Baseball is really good! And if I can’t watch the two best broadcast teams in the game between the Giants and Mets, Statcast is exactly what I want. Apologies to Karl Ravech.

I knew that Devers didn’t play a great 3rd but he looks like me at short 11 beers deep in my softball league. #SFGIANTS

Hey @sfgiants.com, Can you ask the owners if we can possibly sell at the deadline this year? I’d like to not go another decade with mediocre baseball. We’ve only got a few years left of Kruk and Kuip and they deserve so much better than this. #sfgiants

My god

Next up they’re going to release Lincoln Assassination files, implicating the CIA and Andrew Johnson’s dog. And what did the FBI know about James Buchanan’s male lovers?

One thing that’s always bothered me about the moderate wing of the Dem party is the inability to stand for anything. They’re so timid and afraid to offend and it reflects harshly in their media appearances, town halls, and debates during their campaigns.