One More at the Stick!

by onemoreatthestick on Aug 15, 2008 12:36 AM PDT

What's going on everybody? I've started up a petition to bring Los Gigantes back to the Stick for one final game. I think with all the poor performances by our boys in orange and black lately, we Giants fans need something to get us excited again. A lot of people have already visited and some have suggested the game could be a throwback Bay Bridge series. Check out the site and tell me what you think! Don't forget to sign the petition.

http://onemoreatthestick.wordpress.com

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This Can No Longer Happen

It was published that the football seats that use to be moveable when the Stick was a dual use stadium are now permanent and can no longer be moved. Therefore no way to configue the Stick for baseball.

by giantsrainman on Aug 15, 2008 12:44 AM PDT 0 recs

IT COULD MEAN MORE HOME RUNS!!!

Lets just make right field 110 feet and we could hit more homers in one game than we have this year! buster or death sabes!!!!!!!!

by Big Daddy J on Aug 15, 2008 12:59 AM PDT up 0 recs

Baseball / football hybrid sport?

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 15, 2008 1:13 AM PDT up 0 recs

they tried that in the beginning of Basketball

it didn’t work too well

by boonitez on Aug 15, 2008 1:22 AM PDT up 0 recs

Hehe… I know what your typo is supposed to say, but I like it better this way.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 15, 2008 3:00 AM PDT up 0 recs

Me too

Farewell, Ray. We'll miss your smile and your sugar. Welcome, Steve Hammond "Eggs". Throw strikes.
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by Natto on Aug 15, 2008 7:51 AM PDT up 0 recs

The right-field corner would be more like 190 feet if home plate was where it used to be.

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.

by S.F. Giangst on Aug 15, 2008 8:28 AM PDT up 0 recs

um...this just in

With the new outfield dimensions, perhaps we could get an extra HR here or there from this team of flailers. Assuming our team of hacks could get the ball outta the infield!

Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.

by PacBellBoozer on Aug 15, 2008 8:56 AM PDT up 0 recs

Nothing like the first comment to ruin this man’s dream of going to freeze his ass off at the Stick one last time. Well done.

by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 15, 2008 10:22 AM PDT up 0 recs

That's what...

Sorry.

by cheno on Aug 15, 2008 1:44 AM PDT 0 recs

I read that too, but they could probably work something out for one meaningless exhibition game. I’m sure the ownership would have no desire to do something like this though. They’re too busy raving about ATT Park, and don’t want anyone to talk about Candlestick and how the Giants used to actually win games there.

Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment

by rxmeister on Aug 15, 2008 4:44 AM PDT 0 recs

I'll pass

If I was dating an ugly girl and then a beautiful one, why would I want to go back and pork the ugly one again, “even if it was just one more time for old time’s sake”?

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Aug 15, 2008 6:07 AM PDT up 0 recs

because you can?

by wilriv21 on Aug 15, 2008 6:17 AM PDT up 0 recs

sure

but she hasn’t gotten any better looking with age and now probably has herpes.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 15, 2008 9:39 AM PDT up 0 recs

don’t forget the weeping cold sores, and the fact that she’s been used by 90 guys 10 Sundays a year…

by tyrannoman on Aug 15, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up 0 recs

Lots of guys do that…

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 15, 2008 6:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

sorry all I can think

is Centipete

Tommy Lasorda HATES GIANTSBOARD.COM

by merkin on Aug 15, 2008 9:23 AM PDT up 0 recs

Centipete probably does that too.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 15, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

because the ugly one will let you do things the beautiful one would never let you do?

by Hobbes2d on Aug 15, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up 0 recs

Because you love pork.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 15, 2008 12:57 PM PDT up 0 recs

Especially if the ex reeked of urine, as does Candlestick Park.

by seyheystretch on Aug 15, 2008 1:03 PM PDT up 0 recs

Candlestick

We won games there as long as you throw out the 70’s and 80’s.

by slcgiant on Aug 15, 2008 7:43 AM PDT up 0 recs

pretty good teams in ’82 and ’86-89.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 15, 2008 9:27 AM PDT up 0 recs

We actually won games before?

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

by WilliamVanLandingham on Aug 15, 2008 9:13 AM PDT up 0 recs

I watched the YT video from your site during a day game at the ’Stick, good lord there was a ton of foul territory behind home plate. I had forgotten about that.

Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Aug 15, 2008 6:52 AM PDT 0 recs

Video?

There’s a Yorvit Torrealba video on the site?
I’m so there.

Ralph Barbieri, heal thyself.

by ThrillisGone22 on Aug 15, 2008 6:59 AM PDT up 0 recs

There was, but it was taken down in favor of video of a tall, lefty catcher who was a former All-star.

Farewell, Ray. We'll miss your smile and your sugar. Welcome, Steve Hammond "Eggs". Throw strikes.
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by Natto on Aug 15, 2008 7:52 AM PDT up 0 recs

I keep reading this title as MEATSTICK

I really need to get more sleep.

Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Aug 15, 2008 8:46 AM PDT 0 recs

obligatory

That’s what she said!

FIRE BRIAN SABEAN

by zenbitz on Aug 15, 2008 9:40 AM PDT up 0 recs

It’s a nice idea, but it probably will never happen.

Farewell, Ray. We'll miss your smile and your sugar. Welcome, Steve Hammond "Eggs". Throw strikes.
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by Natto on Aug 15, 2008 8:56 AM PDT 0 recs

Nah.

I remember the Stick. Don’t really miss it.

No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball

by Skaldheim on Aug 15, 2008 9:22 AM PDT 0 recs

+some

The place was a soulless multi-use municipal toilet.

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.

by S.F. Giangst on Aug 15, 2008 9:25 AM PDT up 0 recs

Like the Oakland Coliseum!

Adopted brother of the AnVil / GIANTSPACE™ returns!

by SoFa King Mike on Aug 15, 2008 9:31 AM PDT up 0 recs

Candlestick was ugly and a lousy place to play ball, but hardly soulless. It had more personality than almost any ballpark I’ve ever seen.

With that having been said, I don’t really see the point of this.

by jcb9 on Aug 15, 2008 10:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

+1

I actually miss the stick. When you went there on a cold weekday night you knew you were among real Giants fans; people to see their team, and make noise like a much larger crowd. AT&T has too many people there to be seen talking on their cellphones.

That being said, they already had a final game at the stick. I was one of the sellout crowd along with dozens of former Giants. It was a great goodbye and I don’t see the point of another.

by marklar on Aug 15, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up 0 recs

that’s true, on a weekday game in August, you could bundle up in your best down, wear a balaclava and ski goggles, then head over to a baseball game with 9235 of your best friends. Then watch Steve Scarscone go 1-4 with a double.

by tyrannoman on Aug 15, 2008 11:51 AM PDT up 0 recs

I’d MUCH rather have 5,000 hardcore fans mixed in with 35,000 casual fans than just having the 5,000 hardcore fans, though. And it’s not even close, really.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 15, 2008 12:59 PM PDT up 0 recs

Agreed. It was the people that made the place. The venue itself, for concerts, baseball, even football today, was, is, and continues to be a poorly-designed, multi-purpose ashtray situated on a windy point with terrible access, far from downtown and lacking in any atmosphere. Shea has more character, and Shea is a pit.

"Mow bwiefings?" "More briefings."

by stobgopper on Aug 15, 2008 5:10 PM PDT up 0 recs

Ah, but the fact that it was a windy, freezing pit was precisely what gave it character. It was an experience unlike anything in baseball. It was a bitter, hateful personality, but a very strong one.

by jcb9 on Aug 15, 2008 6:21 PM PDT up 0 recs

Speaking of multi-use(r) toilets

I definitely don’t miss these things.

by rightcenterfielder on Aug 15, 2008 12:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

what i loved...

dollar bleacher seats, the giant heaters that would turn on on cold nights, being a kid and jumping down into the outfield area just past the fence to go after homerun balls ( i can’t believe they let us do that) and the most craptastic urinals around.

that being said, i have no desire to return to watch a baseball game.

Dodgers fans eat their young.

by redhornet78 on Aug 15, 2008 9:43 AM PDT 0 recs

I like the park I can take BART to, thank you very much.

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.

by groug on Aug 15, 2008 11:35 AM PDT 0 recs

Candlestick is accessible by BORT

by rotorueter on Aug 15, 2008 11:48 AM PDT up 0 recs

I LOL'd

Giants! Giants! HELP US GOD!

by j14 on Aug 15, 2008 12:13 PM PDT up 0 recs

We’re out of Bort license plates. Repeat: We’re OUT of Bort license plates!

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 15, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up 0 recs

I call it BORT. STEALER

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 15, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

I say “stealer.” STEALER STEALER.

by jcb9 on Aug 15, 2008 2:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

You would.

by rotorueter on Aug 15, 2008 2:56 PM PDT up 0 recs

F#CK

I forgot Disco Stu in my favorite ancillary character list

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Aug 15, 2008 2:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

Disco Stu doesn't advertise

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 15, 2008 2:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

Years ago

I met a gal once who told me here father designed Candelstick Park. At first you might think she was trying to impress me just to get in my pants (I mean, who wouldn’t want to get in my pants?), but that factoid isn’t all that impressive.

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Aug 15, 2008 11:36 AM PDT 0 recs

And by “factoid not being all that impressive”, I’m referring to her father’s design, not what’s in my pants.

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Aug 15, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up 0 recs