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Age/Sex: 28, Male

Born: San Francisco, CA

Currently Resides: Mountain View, CA

Occupation: Law Clerk

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark

Least Favorite Giant: Marvin Bernard

Best Giant no one talks about: Joel Youngblood

Best Giants memory: 2002 Playoffs, until the 8th Inning of the W.S.

Worst Giants memory: 1989 W.S., I hate the A's.

Best experience at a game: When Krazy Krab came out on throwback night last year.

Giants fan since: My whole life.

Why a fan: Because the Giants are awesome.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Get rid of the DH and Lou Seal.

Advice for Giants fans: Life is Suffering

Age/Sex: 49, male

Born: New York City, NY

Currently Resides: Los Angeles area, CA

Occupation: Computer programmer/consultant

Favorite Current Giant: Jonathan Sanchez

Favorite All-time Giant: Willie Mays. We share same birthday and was my idol.

Least Favorite Giant: Jeff Kent. Never took a liking to him.

Best Giant no one talks about: Kirt Manwaring

Best Giants memory: 2002 World Series

Worst Giants memory: Any loss to Los Angeles

Best experience at a game: 1987 playoffs vs St Louis. Drove up from LA and tailgated. Did not know a soul yet SF faithful fed me and treated me like a brother.  Never yelled so hard watching the game from RF stands at The Stick.

Giants fan since: 1966.

Why a fan: Because my father rooted for the Giants back in the Polo Grounds.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Get both AL and NL under "same house" for rules and umpiring.  Use WADA for drug testing.

Advice for Giants fans: Support the team, read McCovey Chronicles and Beat LA

Real Name: Jason

Age/Sex: 19/Male

Born: Palo Alto, CA

Currently Resides: San Jose, CA

Occupation: Customer Service Representative

Favorite Current Giant: Kevin Frandsen

Favorite All-time Giant: Bill Mueller

Least Favorite Giant: Ricky Ledee/Alex Sanchez

Best Giant no one talks about: Noah Lowry

Best Giants memory: not games just my experiences with my dad at the SJ Giants games

Worst Giants memory: the past few seasons

Best experience at a game: A Pedro Feliz game winning home run sitting ~7 rows back from the Giants bullpen

Giants fan since: fan since I was born (my dad had a baby uniform for me) but recently became much more of one

Why a fan: from my dad, he got it from his sister

What would you do to "fix" baseball: get rid of DHing, go back to 15 teams per league with 5 per division so you don't have this 6 team and 4 team division

Advice for Giants fans: Patience my friends

Real Name: Jason

Age/Sex: 23/Male

Born: San Jose, CA

Currently Resides: Davis, CA

Occupation: Resident Counselor at Group Home

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Bobby Thompson

Least Favorite Giant: Cody Ransom

Best Giant no one talks about: Linden

Best Giants memory: Having my dad tell me bedtime stories about "the catch" as a little kid

Worst Giants memory: 2002 playoffs... sigh

Best experience at a game: Seeing Barry belt 2 into the cove in the same game

Giants fan since: the day I was born

Why a fan: from my dad

What would you do to "fix" baseball: No DH, Let Buck O'Neil into the hall of fame, along with shoeless Joe, Shoot bud selig

Advice for Giants fans: Whiskey makes it hurt a whole lot less, Mad Dog 20/20 helps you forget

Real Name: David Arnott

Age/Sex: 23, Male

Born: San Francisco, CA

Currently Resides: San Francisco, CA

Occupation: Radio Production

Favorite Current Giant: Barry Zito, Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark

Least Favorite Giant: Neifi!

Best Giant no one talks about: Mike Aldrete

Best Giants memory: I was at this game, and this game, but watching this game on TV gave me the single greatest adrenaline rush watching sports has ever given me.

Worst Giants memory: October 17, 1989.

Best experience at a game: The "Jose Cruz, Jr. Robs LoDuca Game" linked above.

Giants fan since: Since 1983. I used to imitate Will Clark's game face while watching the Giants on TV. Cute on a four year old. Not so much on a fifteen year old.

Why a fan: Neither of my folks were big baseball fans, though my dad actively likes the Giants and went to a few games before I came along. As far as I can tell, my folks realized their little kid loved baseball, so they bought the 20-game plan season ticket package.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Abolish the DH. Contract the Marlins and Devil Rays (tell fans in FL to root for the Braves or Texas teams), then move the Brewers to the AL Central and Cleveland to the AL East. Most importantly, I'd issue an edict that all MLB owners seeking to build a new stadium are to exhaust all private financing options before asking for public money.

Advice for Giants fans: Actively support your point of view on how the team should be run. If you don't, it will be run in the same bass-ackwards way it's been done all during the Sabean era (gut feelings, intangibles, playoff experience uber alles, etc). I liken it to hunting: sure, you can be pretty successful hunting boar with wooden spears, but why would you do that if there are rifles available?

Anything else: Anyone got a boat they can lend me sometime in July?

Real Name: Rob

Age/Sex: 26/Male

Born: Vallejo, CA

Currently Resides: Portland, OR

Occupation: Accountant

Favorite Current Giant: Barry Bonds

Favorite All-time Giant: Barry Bonds

Least Favorite Giant: Pedro Feliz

Best Giant no one talks about: Ellis Burks

Best Giants memory: The incredible run in 1993 and the stretch run in 1997 that put the Giants back in prominence.  

Worst Giants memory: Getting free tix to Game 6 2002

Best experience at a game: JT walk off, you all know the one  

Giants fan since: my 1st game in 1987

Why a fan:  Grew up with the Giants

What would you do to "fix" baseball: A freaking salary cap!

Advice for Giants fans: The best player of our generation plays for our team.  Enjoy the show!

Real Name: Justin Ribble

Age/Sex: 27, Male

Born: Bend, Oregon

Currently Resides: Sacramento

Occupation: Wanna-be architect

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Woody

Least Favorite Giant: Pedro Feliz, Armando Benitez, Jeffery Hammonds, and Alex Sanchez

Best Giant no one talks about: Woody

Best Giants memory: Barry's putout/throwout DP where he lead-off the next inning and hit a walk-off job.  

Worst Giants memory: Game six with a bunch of f'ing rally monkey fans.

Best experience at a game: Watching Barry go deep at my first Giants game.

Giants fan since: 1997, first year living in SLO, Cali

Why a fan: Because I have to follow a ball-team that's remotely close to where I live, and the A's suck ass.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Testing and harsh penalties for ALL substances.  50 games for first offense, lifetime ban for 2nd.  Put Pete Rose, Mark McGuire, and Barry Bonds in the HOF.  Have current living members of the HOF and current players/managers vote for HOF.  Take all of the voting powers away from the writers.

Advice for Giants fans: Lay into Pedro and 'Mando every time they deserve it.  Stand for every Barry at bat.  Splurge just once and spend $50+ on adult beverages for game.  

Anything else: Howay the Lads!  NUFC baby.

Real Name: Cameron Wood

Age/Sex: 24/ Male

Born: Newport CA

Currently Resides: Yuma AZ

Occupation: English Teacher

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain (also)

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark (also)

Least Favorite Giant: Jeff Kent

Best Giants Memory: 2002 NLCS ( suck on that Red Birds)

Worst Giants Memory: 2002 WS game 6. (Put my fist through 2 doors)

Giants fan since: I can remember

Why: Because they are the greatest team in the history of professional sport.

Advice for Fleas: hit 50 bombs if you are going to have a sub .300 obp.

Real Name: Kumar Plocher

Age/Sex: 31, Male

Born: Watsonville, CA

Currently Resides: Ukiah, CA

Occupation: Biodiesel production/distribution

Favorite Current Giant: Tim Lincecum (and if he doesn't count, then Matt Zito, I mean, Barry Cain, ah hell, either one)

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark (Even though he's supposedly as ***hole, I was young, and I never held that against him). I also loved the way the PA announcer elongated his name.

Least Favorite Giant: Armando the excuse maker.

Best Giant no one talks about: Robby Thompson. Used to be Jose Uribe, but now people are talking about him :(

Best Giants memory: Kevin Mitchell's bare-handed catch.

Worst Giants memory: Last season I was at a game where Jason Schmidt pitched well, Barry Bonds stole a base (!), everything looked like it was headed the right direction, and then Mando blew it.

Best experience at a game: Even though they lost, the game where Barry hit #715 was wonderful for me, mostly because I got a really cool Omar bobblehead and, my 4-year anniversary message to my wife who was sitting next to me came up on the bigscreen, which we got a picture of, that picture now being her desktop background. The homerun confetti and everything was fun too.

Giants fan since: My whole life, with an emphasis on the 80s and then again, recently, my wife and I have kind of rediscovered the team.

Why a fan: During the 80s, when I was young, they were not just the local team. They were San Francisco, like the 49ers, and both teams just seemed to ooze "heart" to me.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Give Portland a team, and eliminate the DH. Institute a rule that during the playoffs, each team gets a set number of challenges to ump calls, which would be further reviewed via a replay team. Ask Stephen Hawking to devote some time to resolving baseball's steroid issue.

Advice for Giants fans: See a minor league game.

Anything else: Did I mention that I'm a huge Tim Lincecum fan?

Age/Sex:  38, Male

Born:  Ulysses, KS

Currently Resides:  Fresno, CA

Occupation:  Software Engineer

Favorite Current Giant:  Omar Vizquel

Favorite All-time Giant:  Anyone named Will(ie)

Favorite All-time Giant broadcaster (adding this one):  Jon Miller, slight edge over Greenwald

Least Favorite Giant:  Piershitski

Best Giant no one talks about:  Jim Ray Hart (in part because he was born in a town called Hookerton)

Best Giants memory:  Beating the ratbag pissant Braves in the postseason

Worst Giants memory:  Losing the JT Snow playoff game in '00.  That killed me.

Best experience at a game:  Rios walk-off HR off of Wetteland

Giants fan since:  1978

Why a fan:  Mom liked baseball; had just moved to Salinas and had access to a big league team for first time

What would you do to "fix" baseball:  Just sell the game, and stop trying to "market" it

Advice for Giants fans:  Spell Aurilia's, Rueter's and Benard's names right, for piss sakes

Real Name: Chris Martinez. Also answers to Tap, reserved for my friends and other informal situations.

Age/Sex: 24/female.

Born: Garden Grove, Ca

Currently Resides: Pittsburg, Ca

Occupation: Administrative assistant by day, college student by night, sportswriter in between

Favorite Current Giant: Jonathan Sanchez

Favorite All-time Giant: Willie Mays

Least Favorite Giant: Armando Benitez

Best Giant no one talks about: Vinnie Chulk? I don't know. I feel for the guy who pitched pretty well for a half year after being a throw-in on a deadline deal and he gets no ink for it.

Best Giants memory: Jon Miller's call of Lofton's gamewinning hit for the 2002 pennant.

Worst Giants memory: Actually, for me it was Game 7 of the 02 Series. I told my grandmother to call me no matter what once the game was over, and I was frantically checking my phone for messages while out with friends that night. I alternated between nervous and melancholy and didn't have much fun while out.

Best experience at a game: I was at the game where Bonds hit 714. That was pretty freaking amazing.

Giants fan since: It was an in utero thing for me but I didn't follow the team and the sport seriously until about 1996.

Why a fan: I'm a third generation Bay Area resident, sports nuts populate my entire family, put those two things together and what do you get?

What would you do to "fix" baseball: I love the idea of Portland getting a team but I'd switch them to the NL West to give Seattle a true rival and put Colorado in the AL West. Either get rid of the DH or impliment it in both leagues. I'm no fan of the rule but I do see the merit of it. I'd just rather have a uniform way the game is played in both leagues. Ditch the "This One Counts" bullshit of the All-Star Game. Instant replay. I'm sure there are many more sweeping changes you would impliment but I'm tired and you can't make me use my brain if I don't wanna. So there.

Advice for Giants fans: Wear as much orange as possible to support your team, because it's one of the few excuses most people will accept for dressing like a traffic cone.

Anything else: Grab some pine?

Real Name: Matt Nelson

Age/Sex: 22, M

Born: Palo Alto, CA

Cuurently Resides: Oakland

Occupation: Musician (saxophone). I also sell cheese.

Favorite Current Giant: Cain

Favorite All-Time: Bonds

Least Favorite: Felix Rodriguez

Best Memory: '03, late summer, standing in the free area in right  field, heckling Sheffeild (we were playing the Braves) and Barry belts the game winner over our heads. Then I went to the game two days later where he hit a walkoff on his B-day.

Worst: In SF during game 6, ready for party time, but noooo.

Fan Since: The earliest games I remember going to were maybe around '91/'92 at the 'Stick. So 16 years.

Why a Giants Fan: Rare Disorder

To improve the game: No DH, no more 'the all-star game counts now' bullshit,  more fights

Advice for Giants fans: Ugh

Real Name: Doug

Age/Sex: 21, Male

Born: Berkeley, CA

Currently Resides: San Luis Obispo, CA

Occupation: Student at the Harvard of the west

Favorite Current Giant: Dreamy

Favorite All-time Giant: The Thrill

Least Favorite Giant: Ricky Ledee

Best Giant no one talks about: Barry Bonds

Wait, I might have heard someone say something about him one time.

Best Giants memory: I have never been more relieved than after the DP that ended the Giants/Braves divisional series in '02.

Worst Giants memory: Game six. I don't want to talk about it.

Best experience at a game: Natto already said it, but the Lowry CG shutout over the Reds for his first win in the majors.

Giants fan since: My whole life, but only seriously since 1997.

Why a fan: My dad.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Kill the DH.  Shut up, DH.  I hate you.

Advice for Giants fans: Drink heavily.

Real Name: Pete

Age/Sex: 29, Male

Born: Palo Alto, CA

Currently San Francisco, CA

Occupation: Attorney

Favorite Current Giant: Randy Winn

Favorite All-time Giant: Chili Davis

Least Favorite Giant: Jeff Brantley

Best Giant no one talks about: Desi Wilson

Best Giants memory: Brian Johnson homerun.

Worst Giants memory: Game six.

Best experience at a game: Brian Johnson homerun.

Giants fan since: 1986, not a bad year to start following the team.

Why a fan: My uncle took me to my first game - double header sweep of the Astros to take over first place.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Ban Fox Sports from the playoffs and world series.

Advice for Giants fans: Try a sheboygan.

Real Name: Tasha

Age/Sex: 29/f

Born: Atlanta, raised in Denver

Currently Resides: The City

Occupation: Art director, copy editor

Favorite Current Giant: Noah Lowry

Favorite All-time Giant: Brett Tomko, don't kill me

Least Favorite Giant: Alex Sanchez or Ricky Ledee, cannot stand those two

Best Giants memory: All of Jon Miller's spectacular calls, I know I'll think of the perfect one right after I post this. Also "And this one is in the win column!"

Worst Giants memory: Opening day last year

Best experience at a game: Too many to list, but there was one hilarious guy in front of the Baron and me during the last Dodger homestand. He ought to have been a stand-up comic. Oh and the first time I got to hear "What's the matter with Shawn Green? HE'S A BUM!" It really seemed to rile him up.

Giants fan since: 2003. That's it! From here on out, though.

Why a fan: Two words: Jon Miller

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Jesus I don't know. Editing their press releases a little better is about the extent to which I could help. As you can tell from that sentence. And this one.

Advice for Giants fans: You're bloody damn lucky to be one.

Real Name: Jeremy

Age/Sex: 37, Male

Currently Resides: Oakland

Occupation: Dot-commer/grad student

Favorite Current Giant: Omar Vizquel

Favorite All-time Giant: Willie McCovey

Least Favorite Giant: Alex Sanchez/Lou Seal

Best Giant no one talks about: Barry Bonds

Best Giants memory: 2002 NLCS Game 5. The best baseball game/sporting event I have ever been fortunate enough to attend in person.

Worst Giants memory: Game 6. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry.

Giants fan since: mid-90s.

Why a fan: Because I adore the game of baseball. Because the Big Phone is a beautiful place to watch a game. And becuase I have a pathological addiction to having my heart broken for six months out of every single year.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Give Fox TV their rights fees back in exchange for them never broadcasting another baseball game.

Advice for Giants fans: Never take the ballpark, Barry Bonds, our great announcers or the team's illustrated history for granted. You could have the misfortune of spending your life rooting for the Devil Rays or Brewers or some other crappy team.

Anything else: the Sheboygan Bratwurst is the best food in the park, and a relative bargain at under $7. Eat many.

Real Name: Jenny Macho (Mayshow, not the Spanish word)

Age/Sex: 19, Female (OMG!!)

Born: San Francisco, CA

Currently Resides: Chestnut Hill, MA

Occupation: College student

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Barry Bonds

Least Favorite Giant: Pedro Feliz

Best Giant no one talks about: Kevin Correia!

Best Giants memory: http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B10230SFN2002.htm (I was there!)

Worst Giants memory: Game 6

Best experience at a game: See Above Best Giants Memory

Giants fan since: I've been a "fan" my whole life, but I really started following them and getting into baseball in 2002 (I picked a good/bad year)

Why a fan: One of my friends was really into it, so I just started watching too.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Take away the jobs of most of the current sportswriters.

Advice for Giants fans: Be a pessimist.

Real Name: Timothy Lincecum

Age/Sex: 22, Male

Born: Renton, WA

Currently Resides: San Jose, CA (until they call me up to the show)

Occupation: Professional Baseball Player (duh?)

Favorite Current Giant: Me

Favorite All-time Giant: Juan Marichal

Least Favorite Giant: Jason Schmidt (traitor)

Best Giant no one talks about: Alex Requena (we're buddies)

Best Giants memory: Getting drafted.  Then the victory in game 1 of the CA league playoffs.  

Worst Giants memory: Nothing bad so far (but just to be consistent I'll say game six of he 2002 series).

Best experience at a game: Sitting in the broadcast booth.

Giants fan since: June 6th, 2006.

Why a fan: They drafted me.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Raise the mound.

Advice for Giants fans: Buy my jersey!

Real Name: Paul

Age/Sex: 24, Male

Born: Concord, CA

Currently Resides: Newport Beach, CA

Occupation: Retail Stock Broker

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Matt Williams

Least Favorite Giant: Neifi

Best Giant no one talks about: Billy Swift, Mike Jackson

Best Giants memory: Armando Rios Walkoff, Barry Bonds turning around 100 mph from Gagme, and kenny lofton's single up the middle

Worst Giants memory: Game six. I was in Torino, Italy stdying abroad and it was the only live giants moment I witnessed from that postseason. worst night of my life to date and it is not even close.

Best experience at a game: Brian Johnson.

Giants fan since: My whole life. I was born in 1982 as a San Francisco Giants fan.

Why a fan: My pops had me in Giants gear from day 1.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: I would fire Bud Selig, remove Joe Buck from any and all telecasts, and move the A's to Bakersfield.

Advice for Giants fans: Never take for granted our broadcast team.

Anything else: The sheboygan is possibly the greatest ballpark food in the history of food. go for the grilled onions and peppers and kraut. Never turn off a game when Armando Benitez may come in while saying  to yourself "this one is in the bag" not that anybody would.

Real Name: Stewart

Age/Sex: 43/M

Born: Palo Alto, CA

Currently Resides: Santa Cruz, CA

Occupation: Software engineer/IT guy

Favorite Current Giant: Bonds

Favorite All-time Giant: Willie Mac

Least Favorite Giant: Shawon Dunston

Best Giant no one talks about: Santiago or Ellis Burks

Best Giants memory: 2002 game 6, innings 1-6

Worst Giants memory: 2002 games 6, innings 7-9

Best experience at a game: Taking my kids to the big phone for the first time. Not having gloves yet, they held their caps out almost the whole game in hopes of catching a foul ball in them. We were in the upper deck, so needless to say they didn't get one.

Giants fan since: Around 1971, or whenever I first became aware of baseball. Paid less attention to baseball in the 80s/early 90s. Lived in Colorado in the mid-90s, and following the Rockies drew me back to baseball and, eventually, the Giants.

Why a fan: I never chose to be, it just kind of happened that way.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Eliminate the DH. Introduce promotion/relegation a la European soccer leagues.

Advice for Giants fans: "Don't take life too serious - it ain't nohow permanent."

Thank you in advance.

Real Name: Steve

Age/Sex: 32, Male

Born: Pacifica

Currently Resides: San Mateo

Occupation: Insurance Agent

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark

Least Favorite Giant: Jose Cruz Jr.

Best Giant no one talks about: David Bell

Best Giants memory: Bonds home run off K-Rod sailing over my head during Game 6 in Anaheim.

Worst Giants memory: Sitting in the bathroom by myself with my hands over my ears during the end of game 6. ugh

Giants fan since: 1974

Why a fan: I grew up in a big time baseball family.  My dad went to Seals stadium when he was a kid. My brother played at Salem Keizer for a year.  Seeing my last name on an official Giants uniform was freaking awesomoe.  I only got to JC level.  

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Cut the Home Run Derby in half.  Go back to the old "Relay Throw Competition" during All-Star Skills.  Kill Fox's talking baseball.

Advice for Giants fans: Go to Spring Training at least once in your life.  Always ask for Stoli Vanilla in your Mind Eraser.  It's the best!

Anything else: I've always worried that my dad won't get to see a Giants World Championship.  Now that I have kids I'm worried about myself.  Oh, drink Maker's Mark.

Real Name: Glenn

Age/Sex: 42, Male

Currently Resides: San Francisco

Occupation: Product Manager

Favorite Current Giant: Omar Vizquel

Favorite All-time Giant: Willie Mays

Least Favorite Giant: Johnnie LeMaster

Best Giant no one talks about:  Chris Speier

Best Giants memory:  Probably the pennant clincher in 1971, because nothing's more thrilling than when you're 8.

Worst Giants memory:  Game six.  Though at least this WS broke the "curse" of no WS games won in exactly my lifetime.

Best experience at a game: Giants clinching the West in the first year of PBP, 2000.  I was front row center in CF and the players circled the park afterwards.

Giants fan since:  1971, when I started playing and following sports, starting with baseball.

Why a fan:  Dad is a fan... probably picked it up when he moved from Canada to Stockton in the '50s.

What would you do to "fix" baseball:  Kill the DH.  Expand the rosters by one if you have to.

Advice for Giants fans:  Watch a game through the knothole, or at least some of it.

Anything else:  Why do A's fans have such resentment over the Giants?  I don't mind rooting for the A's second.

Real Name: Sean

Age/Sex: 38/M

Born: San Mateo, CA

Currently Resides: Paso Robles, CA

Occupation: JC English Instructor

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain

Favorite All-Time Giant: Willie McCovey

Least Favorite Giant: Bill Madlock (bitched the whole time he was here)

Best Giant No One Talks About: Gary Lavelle

Best Giants Memory: Being there for the clincher vs. the Cubs in '89 with Dad, and after hugging him, hugging the guy next to me (who under normal circumstances I probably would have sprayed with mace...if I carried mace)---ALSO being in attendance for Willie Mac's last game at Candlestick.

Worst Giants Memory: The last game of '93.

Best Experience at a Game: Aside from the above, those annual Beach Boys concert games back in the late 70s/early 80s. Not that I'm a huge fan, but it was always fun to see Candlestick turn into a big party for a while instead of its usual bowl of bitterness.

Giants Fan Since: 1975--the old "Dad took me to my first game" scenario. It works every time though, doesn't it?

Why a Fan: I ask myself that question every day.

What I Would Do To Fix Baseball: yay salary cap, nay DH, and (as already suggested by EliminateMe above) institute promotion & relegation (see ya, Tampa Bay; hello, Nashville)

Advice for Giants Fan: It's only a game. (I just wish I could follow my own advice.)

Real Name: Jameson ("Jamie")

Age/Sex: 25, Male

Born: Berkeley, CA

Currently Resides: Richmond, CA

Occupation: Speech-Language Pathologist

Favorite Current Giant: Richie Ballgame (that's what I call Aurilia)

Favorite All-time Giant: Aurilia.  Ok, when I was a kid Matt Williams was my favorite.  And don't count out Deion.  

Least Favorite Giant: Blownitez, Piershitski, Michael Tucker, El Dopo, Jeff Brantley

Best Giant no one talks about: Darren Lewis (didn't he go like 45783 games without an error?)

Best Giants memory: The clinching moment in '02 against the Cards.  Also, the JT/Darren Baker thing.  And Brian Johnson's walkoff.

Worst Giants memory: Losing to the Dodgers on the last day of the season in '93, not making the playoffs with 103 wins. Watching Shinjo bat in game 7.  

Best experience at a game: Jerome Williams throwing a complete game shutout against the A's.  Same game in which Cruz Jr doubled up Tejada at first on a fly ball to the archways.  Williams was my favorite player at the time (other than Aurilia) and it was made sweeter 'cause I was there with a bunch of A's fans.  Also, watching Bonds hit #600, going to my first playoff game ever in 2003 (even though I had to see Ponson blow it).

Giants fan since: Forever, and super hardcore since around the time the new park opened.  

Why a fan: Dad was a Giants fan - he grew up in Palo Alto and adopted the Giants when they moved west.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Make it mandatory to wear high socks, bonus points if you go all out with stirrups - especially if they're striped.  Also, lower ticket prices and make beer a dollar.  

Advice for Giants fans: Bundle up, it's cold out there.  

Anything else: Humm Baby! (I second that emotion)

Real Name: Greg

Age/Sex: 26, M

Born: Woodland, CA, raised in Dixon, CA

Currently Resides: Chico, CA

Occupation: Graduated in December, unemployed in January.

Favorite Current Giant: Bonds

Favorite All-time Giants: Will Clark, Matt Williams, Rod Beck

Least Favorite Giant: Ricky Ledee, Benitez, Feliz

Best Giant no one talks about: Chili Davis

Best Giants memory: Nen closing out the Braves-2002 NLDS. I couldn't believe they had actually won a playoff series. Also, the feeling after game 5 of the WS, thinking they were actually going to pull it off.

Worst Giants memory: Games 6 and 7

Best experience at a game: Schmidt 16k's vs. Marlins

Giants fan since: I was young, had to root for a local team.

Why a fan: I don't know, sometimes I wish I wasn't.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Get rid of interleague play, get rid of the all-star game/home field advantage rule, dump the DH.

Advice for Giants fans: Don't believe anything written by Rich Draper!

Real Name: Andrew Bragman

Age/Sex: 26/M

Born: San Francisco, CA

Currently Resides: Fresno, CA

Occupation: Fresno Grizzlies front office

Favorite Current Giant: Cain

Favorite All-time Giant: Robby Thompson

Least Favorite All time Giant: Cody Ransom

Best Giant no one talks about: Durham

Best Giants memory: Meeting Willie Mays at spring training when I was 10

Worst Giants memory: Sitting speechless at Dodger Stadium after Finley's walk-off grand slam to keep the Giants out of the playoffs

Best experience at a game: 2002 NLCS Game 5

Giants fan since: Before I can remember

Why a fan: Dad grew up 5 minutes from the Polo Grounds and started taking me to The Stick when I was months old

What would you do to "fix" baseball: It doesn't need fixing, we just need to focus on what's right instead of what's wrong. That and get rid of the DH.

Advice for Giants fans: Keep the faith...

real name. RYAN

25-male

born-ANTIOCH

current-SACRAMENTO

occupation-INSIDE SALES.

favorite current giant- THE ENCHANTER,the hype's enough the make him my favorite,otherwise its omar.

favorite all time- ROB NEN

least fvorite- who's doing bad right now, otherwise benitez will do.

best giant no one talks about- Rob nen

best memory. santiago homers againts the braves in 02'z run. we were all but done.

worst memory- rodriguez taking the mound in game six. livo taking the mound in game 7.

best expierience- taking my little boy to his first game.

Why a fan- the neighborhood bully was a giants fan. i was 6 and little. it worked out better to like what he liked.he's gone but i still like my team.

Real Name: Rich

Age/Sex: 41, Male

Born: Deep south, but only because my mom was there. Wait, that sounds stupid. Only because my dad was temporarily there. Grew up mostly in Seattle with a notable stint in the northeast.

Currently Resides: San Francisco.  Outer Richmond District represent-in'.

Occupation: Trial/jury consultant. Also happen to be lawyer, but not practicing. I prefer using Jedi mind tricks on unsuspecting jurors. Good verdicts I get.

Favorite Current Giant: Lisa Leslie, but she's a small "g" giant.  I guess my favorite Giant who is still a Giant is Barry Bonds, but I don't feel very favoritey toward him currently.

Favorite All-time Giant: Barry Bonds

Least Favorite Giant: f_cking marvin f_cking benard, that dipshit midget f_ck

Best Giant no one talks about: Barry Bonds. What's a guy got to do to get some ink?

Best Giants memory: Getting to take my dad to a World Series game in 2002; tied with taking my then-6-month-old son to Opening Day last year; tied with beating Cardinals in 2002 NLCS

Worst Giants memory: Game six. And that night I totally ruined some guaranteed, sure thing, no doubt about it "action" from a woman I had met the previous week while doing a game show in L.A. She lived in L.A. & knew I was a big Giants fan, season tix, gave myself jaundice just so I could turn orange, the works. She didn't care about baseball at all. She had made it pretty plain in the previous week that we could, uh, "happen" if I visited L.A.  So she called at the end of the game to say something like, "So, what happened to your team, huh?"  I said, "You really called right now to rub it in??"  She said something like I shouldn't be a jerk. I said something like I wasn't being a jerk, she was being a jerk, jerk.  She emailed next day, which was deleted and that was that.

Best experience at a game: Dave Dravecky come back game- cold shivers for 3 hours straight.

Giants fan since: 1990, when I moved to SF from Eugene after finishing law school. (This is why I can see Will Clark for what he really was, without being infected by the experience of the 1989 playoffs vs. the Chubs.)

Why a fan: I support local teams, and had never lived near a NL team. I saw a Seattle Pilots game in 1969 at age 4 (before a slug named bud selig stole them and moved them to Milwaukee), saw Mariners games in the Kingdome, lived teen years in Niagara Falls so saw many Blue Jays games. Fell in love with the Giants more than A's because more local and NL.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Sever the vas deferens, tie up the loose ends, suture the scrotum, put ice on it.

I would reassert front office control over umpiring by reintroducing QuesTec and any other kind of technology that would track ALL umpire's work behind the plate-- and do whatever it took to get the umpires to buy into a collective vision of excellence and uniformity in accordance with the RULES, not their own theories of what a strike is.  +  I would ban DH.  +  I would institute MEANINGFUL revenue sharing that would also install a floor for player payroll in addition to a threshhold that would trigger luxury tax payments.  + I would go back to 2 divisions per league, keep wild card, give the division with best record a bye and make the other division winner play the wild card in the first round... and yes, this eliminates one round of playoffs, but it also eliminates the charade that all division winners are in the same class and deserve postseason play.  +  I would get rid of interleague play in regular season because teams pursuing the same division title should have to travel the same road, which doesn't happen when the D'backs play the Royals and Tigers (when they sucked) while we played the Red Sox and Yankees.

Advice for Giants fans: Keep being the smartest, most informed fans in the game. I LOVE that Giants fans don't start yelling "BALK" every time the visiting pitcher twitches. When I see this at other ballparks (which is most of them), I just want to scream at their stupidity.  

Anything else: I wasn't sure whether this is a good memory, bad memory, or what, but it sure is an important baseball memory:  the first game after September 11, 2001.  It was so unbelievably great to have baseball again, to be around the familiar folks in 311, to be in sunshine.  No songs between innings, no "walk up" music for batters, no ads on the screen. Universal appreciation from the fans for all the players, even the opponents (Padres? Maybe. Can't believe Bochy's head wasn't considered a prime target for terrorists.).  Much hugging of strangers and relative strangers after the national anthem. Just pure healing.

Real Name: Michael

Age/Sex: 28/M

Born: San Jose, CA

Currently Resides: Paicines, CA

Occupation: Park Ranger

College: HSU

Favorite Current Giant: Omar

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark

Least Favorite All time Giant: AJ

Best Giant no one talks about: Mike Dunleavy

Best Giants memory: 2007 WS win

Worst Giants memory: 2002 WS

Best experience at a game: Lowry win + Bonds 700

Giants fan since: Birth

Why a fan: I like to suffer

What would you do to "fix" baseball: more double headers

Advice for Giants fans: Drink......a lot.

Real Name: Chris

Age/Sex: 22, M

Born: Walnut Creek, CA

Currently Resides: Salem, OR

Occupation: Reporter

Favorite Current Giant: Omar Vizquel

Favorite All-time Giants: Jose Uribe, Robby Thompson

Least Favorite Giant: Kent

Best Giant no one talks about: Mike Jackson

Best Giants memory: NLCS 02 and '93 run

Worst Giants memory: The inability to move after game 6

Best experience at a game: Me and my fiance skipped class our senior year of high school. The Giants won and Bonds homered. Just a real good day, though I did lose my favorite hat on bart.

Giants fan since: Conception

Why a fan: Deep-seeded psychological issues I have yet to deal with.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: There are a lot of details, but for the most part I couldn't ask for anything more.

Advice for Giants fans: The championship may never come, but at least we'll have something to talk about and people to give irrational nicknames to.

Born: Military Brat, Charleston, SC
Currently Resides: Albuquerque, NM
Occupation: Newspaper reporter

Favorite Current Giant: Matt Cain/Noah Lowry
Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark
Least Favorite Giant: Julian Tavarez
Best Giant no one talks about: Craig Lefferts.

Best Giants memory: 1989 NLCS
Worst Giants memory: 2003 NLDS.
Best experience at a game: Took my sister to that game in May 2003 when Rivera had his adventure around the bases and Grissom won it in extra innings. Great night.

Giants fan since: Always, but especially since 1988.
Why a fan: Um, family obligation?

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Buy the Giants, change the name to China Basin Park, tell Sabean to draft the best players available. Also, in this scenario, I'm very rich.

Advice for Giants fans: Turn the sound off when watching national or regional broadcasts not featuring Kruk and Kuip.

Anything else: I'm drunker in person, and I love my cat.

Age/Sex: 19/female

Born: SF

Currently Resides: SF

Occupation: College Student

Favorite Current Giant: Vizquel/Sanchez

Favorite All-time Giant: JT Snow

Least Favorite Giant: I'll go current and say Mando.

Best Giant no one talks about: Lowry

Best Giants memory: Winning the pennant in '02.

Worst Giants memory: Where do I begin?? I'll say game 3 of the 4 game series vs the Dodgers in '05 I think after the allstar break where the ump completely blew the strikeout call. I'm never angry for more than ten minutes, ever, and that game left me mad for days.

Best experience at a game: Schmidt's complete game 16 k's win against the Marlins last June.

Giants fan since: 1997

Why a fan: I had to find baseball on my own. No one in my house liked the sport. Anyway, home sick, flipping channels and I come across a giants game(forgive me for not remembering the team they were playing) and Snow makes one of his diving plays to his left to keep the ball(which was barely fair) from going to the outfield. I was hooked from then on.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Salary cap, to start.

Advice for Giants fans: Stay calm at all times.

Anything else: Always have a blindfold in your back pocket.

Real Name: Sterling A Meyer

Age/Sex: 23, Male

Born: San Francisco, CA

Currently Resides: Washington, DC

Occupation: Advertising Media Buyer

Favorite Current Giant: Rich Aurelia

Favorite All-time Giant: Will Clark

Least Favorite Giant: Armando

Best Giant no one talks about: I have a weird soft spot for Jon Johnstone

Best Giants memory: Snow's walkoff homer in the playoffs (or to get us in the playoffs? Shows what a few years of steady drinking will do to a memory :))

Worst Giants memory: The entire WS in 2002

Best experience at a game: A barry walk-off. Can't remember when

Giants fan since: My whole life

Why a fan: Both my grandparents worked for the giants...grandma worked in special tickets (for the players familes, big groups, etc) and grampa was a ticket taker

What would you do to "fix" baseball: get rid of the dh

Advice for Giants fans: Spread the love

Anything else: He hits it High, he hits it Deep...OUTA HERE!

Real Name: E J

Age/Sex: 58/Cyborg

Born: San Francisco, CA

Currently Resides: North Bay

Occupation: Inventing the Internet, Judging Pre-school art contests, and petty larcenies.

Favorite Current Giant: Michael Strahan

Favorite All-time Giant: Y.A. Tittle

Least Favorite Giant: Entire 1985 Roster

Best Giant no one talks about: Valmy Thomas and Frank Gifford

Best Giants memory: Spilling beer all over some rich fuck's cashmere coat in 1978 or 79 when McCovey hit a game winning single during a weekday day game when I was supposed to be out on sales calls.

Worst Giants memory: Getting home at 3am after that game and trying to convince wife-thing that I got stuck in traffic. Really. Cars all over the place. A "giant" (snicker) parking lot. For hours. I swear.

Best experience at a game: See above

Giants fan since: 1903. John McGraw rocked. We partied a lot.

Why a fan: I'm supposed to like the Dodgers? Get out of here!

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Institute a platoon system like football. Offense and Defense. Why not? Anybody here interested in watching Trent Dilfer try his hand at linebacker with the game on the line?  About as much as watching Fleas in the same situation. Then I would shoot Bud Selig with a paintball gun until he cried.

Advice for Giants fans: Congratulate yourselves on being the classiest in MLB. Except when the Dodgers are here. Fuck the Dodgers and Fuck Lasorda.

Anything else: Yeah. Fuck the Dodgers and Fuck Lasorda

Real Name:  Mark

Age/Sex:    47/yes

Born:  San Francisco

Currently reside:  Pleasant Hill, CA

Occupation:  Owner of a very small insurance agency

Favorite Current Giant:  Barry

Favorite All Time Giant:  Stretch

Least Favorite Giant:  Orel Flipping Hersheier

Best Giant no one talks about:  Moon Man Minton

Best Giants Memory:  Man, this question is hard.  I guess it was watching my son go crazy when he got a foul ball at a Giants game.  He's 7 and he has got more foul balls than me!  A close second is the Dravecky comeback game.  There was a dry eye in our entire section.

Worst Giants Memory:  Waking up to a newspaper article that said the Giants were moving to Tampa Bay!

Giants Fan Since:  I can remember.  My Grandmother raised me and worked in the PR department for the Giants.  Very cool childhood!

How to fix Baseball:  Drop the DH.  If you can't field, you can't hit.  Institute a salary cap with a minimum as well as a maximum (Bob Costas idea!) Disband the Dodgers, cause, well, cause they are the Dodgers!

Advice for Giants Fans:  Enjoy the ride, and remeber it could always be worse.  You could be Royals fans'.

Real Name: something else

Age/Sex: 27, male

Born: Orange, CA

Currently Resides: Seattle, WA; but will be Monterey, CA in June 2007.

Occupation: Grad student/JC History instructor

Favorite Current Giant: Omar Vizquel

Favorite All-time Giant: Barry Bonds

Least Favorite Giant: Jeff Kent

Best Giant no one talks about: Ellis Burks

Best Giants memory: Watching the World Series with SF-expatriates in Seattle. Expecting to win it all.

Worst Giants memory: Game 6. Nearly broke the TV, then proceeded to ignore my own Halloween party by getting trashed out of my mind.

Best experience at a game: My first visit to the 'Stick in 1997. Maybe 20,000 fans to watch and harass the Pads. Those who were there were real and authentic and hardcore. The most fun I'd yet had at a ballgame. I found a home.

Giants fan since: My whole life, but became a "serious" fan in 1997.

Why a fan: My grandfather was an old NY Giants fan. Growing up in SoCal we used to mock the Angels and he taught me to hate the Dodgers. When I began my undergrad at Berkeley it was only natural to go visit the 'Stick and see what it was all about. Never looked back.

What would you do to "fix" baseball: Black out all Yankees and Red Sox games so that the rest of us can enjoy baseball in peace.

Advice for Giants fans: We have one of the great franchises and fan bases and team culture in all baseball. Revel in it. Enjoy it. Wear the orange and black with pride.

Anything else: There are a LOT of us in our mid-to-late 20s here. Interesting.

User Name: outmachine
Age/Sex: 43, Male

Born: Redding, CA

Currently Resides: San Francisco, CA

Occupation: Ahem.  Lawyer

Favorite Current Giant: Noah Lowry

Favorite All-time Giant: Willie Mays

Least Favorite Giant: Ricky Ledee

Best Giant no one talks about: Ken Henderson

Best Giants memory: Game 5, 2002 World Series

Worst Giants memory: Game six.

Best experience at a game: Brian Johnson Homer vs. Dodgers in 1997.  Followed by Robby Thompson's three run walk off homer against Brian Harvey in 1993, keeping the Giants in a battle with Atlanta for the NL West.
Giants fan since: 1970
Why a fan: Willie Mays
What would you do to "fix" baseball: Get rid of the DH.

Advice for Giants fans: Let's gather our collective positive vibe, atone from whatever we have done wrong, and pool all that energy for a WS title.

Anything else: Don't forget to get plenty of exercise and your veggies.