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

Back in my reporting days, I covered some professional flame-outs. But I don’t recall someone destroying their own goodwill and reputation as quickly and thoroughly as Buster Posey has since June 12. This should be a cautionary case study in PR and leadership classes for years.

I doubt anybody feels “respected” by this astonishingly incompetent response.

Can Andy Burnham challenge Tony Vitello next?

🏳️‍🌈 Fire Vitello 🏳️‍🌈

SF's mayor Daniel Lurie gets it. The Giants let 5 players make a mockery of Pride Night & have done nothing to make amends. Pundits call our mayor politically moderate. Forget those labels. Lurie is so in tune with SF right now. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

That Brubaker’s takeaway is that people have cared about overt bigotry for nearly a week speaks volumes about this entire mess.

I wouldn’t hire Vitello to manage a Target

The most important thing the sports journalism ecosystem in the Bay Area can do is to keep this in the headlines. Every time Vitello gets on the record about it, he digs the hole deeper.

Says a lot about Vitello that he seems to think the primary concern with the backlash is that it could impact player performance. Saying the only opinion that matters is the one in the locker room when your fanbase is begging you to respect and acknowledge their existence is pathetic.

I hope he’s reminding them they don’t have to be homophobic canine anal glands.

“We would like to put to rest, now and forever, any misconception that we stood for anything. Any allegation otherwise is simply untrue.”

At some point, Institutional America decided it was far better to offend and alienate decent people than to risk offending bigots. It was a conscious choice, and one that darkens our time and society until and unless the same institutions decide to change course.

I have a hard time believing that Buster wasn't involved in the message, which was basically "sorry if you were offended." The Giants don't even sound like the team of the 2010s. Sentient curdled milk.

Can’t believe we went from this talented pro-Pride cutie patootie to a whole bunch of pitchers who are bad both on and off the field.

Tony Vitello looks like a guy in constant consternation over deciding between ketchup and catsup

I was thinking about this. What if you wrote the Exodus verse with "Thou Shalt Not Kill" on your Memorial Day Troops Hat? Feel like that wouldn't go over so well.

I just want every homophobe on the Giants to know that I will be here and queer and in this ballpark long after you are less than a Remember Some Guy. 😘🌈

Roupp has some kind of homophobic scriptural citation on his cap tonight, doesn’t he.

Signing up for Strider and Christian Koss’ podcast

You guys, Erik Ostberg might be an ally and I am thrilled

Also, why does forty percent of the bullpen look like they’re the same guy?

There is no better visual for the Harrison/Devers trade than Devers striking out every time he faced Harrison.

Eleven strikeouts in five innings? Golly, this Kyle Harrison is guy is good. Whoever let him go sure is stupid.

I never disliked Chappy. He is cool daddi.

I had some hopes for Vitello. I was at Tennessee when he was there and I saw how he revitalized the program. But it turns out he can‘t solve problems, speaks in managerial word salad and hangs out with chodes. There’s only so much handsome can paper over.

More like Gov. Jared POINTLESS, am I right??????

The thing is, this is exactly what I do but with 1960s “Better Homes and Gardens” magazines.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

@nytimes.com Tell the Games folks that “backroad” is in fact a word, you elitist boobs. Make sure to include the “elitist boobs” part. Thanks!

I like Koss. He can come live with us.

Get an inside look at the NEW Satellite of Love made just for MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments youtu.be/nu5o4Q62uZA

On our way to start shooting the new episodes of MST3K this morning. Very exciting! (He’s gonna drive)

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Good riddance, Patrick BaiIey. Your MAGA-esque headbands will not be missed.

One unfortunate quality of certain baseball coverage from The Athletic is its absolute refusal to draw a conclusion. Everything is equivocal, every factor is equally plausible, every element has equal chances of bring right. Or wrong. These articles are basically the shrug emoji in written form.

Devers at the plate is as lost as the Franklin expedition.

The Vitello Era (2026-2026)

Sometimes Schwarby is bab. Very bab. [wags finger at Schwarby]

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I dig Drew Gilbert. And what the heck, Schmitty’s okay.

Buster Posey is the J. Bruce Ismay of Giants baseball.

Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals. He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining. And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels. He’s a danger to our planet and our health.

🤖 SF Giants on NBCS Nothing to see here, just Drew Gilbert and Tony Vitello sparring in the dugout 🤣

🤖 SF Giants on NBCS Drew Gilbert: powered by pickles🥒

I love this tiny man.

It’s dispiriting that this is even a thing we have to argue about. We used to get emails from some anti-fluoridation nuts in Spokane, begging for coverage of their nonsense. I always deleted them.

Devers 100 percent A Load

🤖 Oracle Park Happy Valentine's Day 🧡

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.