Elitist East Coast McCC meet up.
by say hey nation on Feb 8, 2010 12:33 PM PST
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OK, I know its a little early to start planning, but I just want to get a roll call of anyone interested in a Elitist East Coast McCC meet up.
Looking through the schedule I have identified the following series as possibilities.
Mets-
Friday May 7th- 7pm
Saturday May 8th- 1pm
Sunday May 9th- 1 pm
Pittsburgh-
Friday June 4th- 7pm
Saturday June 5th- 7 pm
Sunday June 6th- 1 pm
Washington-
Friday June 9th- 7pm
Saturday June 10th- 7pm
Sunday June 11th- 1 pm
Toronto-
Friday June 18th- 7pm
Saturday June 19th- 7pm
Sunday June 20th- 1 pm
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Just want to add. I am 90% sure I am going to Pit and Was.
Want to go to Toronto (long weekend, see Niagara and Cooperstown on the drive) and NYM (NY stresses the me out).
My career path, have you seen it?
Although I'm a west coast McCC..
While waiting at Fanfest, a discussion arose and now I’m going to Toronto. We are going to the Friday and Saturday games. I’ve never been to Toronto so I’m looking forward to this.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
Aren’t the Giant’s Vacations people doing a “tour” for this series?
I’ve heard those are pretty cool, meetings with the players and whatnot…
Yes they are but we aren’t going as part of that group. We booked everything separately from the Giant’s Vacations this past Sunday.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
The Giants’ Road Trip package this year is to DC, I think.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
We had priced the Chicago package a few years back and found we could do the same hotels and whatnot for less. So I don’t bother looking at the vacation pkgs anymore.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
As one of the only other Ohioans, I have to work Clippers games during the Cinci games, so I’d be out. My only hope at live Giants baseball this year is that weekend in Pittsburgh.
I intend to be treated in the manner which I am accustomed.
If it can’t be reached by subway, I shall not endeavor to reach it. Queens, please.
(can probably stick someone on a couch if this comes to pass, so long as it’s someone who has no standards)
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
i'm down for any mets game
i do prefer to sit in the better seats, consume my wine and cheese and scoff at whatever hoi polloi antics are there to amuse the morlocks that surround us.
/checks bank account, cries.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
Natinals for sure
I’m a poor college student in DC, with no way to get to the other places.
Plus, Nationals tickets are a lot cheaper than mets or pirates, from what I recall.
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
I don’t know about Nationals ticket prices, but we took a last-minute trip to Pittsburgh to see the Giants last summer, and the ticket prices at the window were VERY reasonable.
"And we plead and we pray for a glimmer of day,
As the night folds its wings and descends, exposing the loose ends."
Proud adoptive parent of Sergio Romo. Looking forward to adopting Justin Smoak.
Like Debbie did Dallas?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I have trouble keeping up with all the east coasters, where is everyone located?
Me: Virginia
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Philly
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 8, 2010 4:27 PM PST up reply actions
Philly. It remains to be seen what games I go to.
by Missing Barry on Feb 8, 2010 6:12 PM PST up reply actions
I usually try to get up to a game during the Philly series every year. As they weren’t on the list I’m assuming they have a mid-week series this year?
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Yes, it’s on Tue-Thu. I’m going to that series, then the next one in St Louis.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
I’m going one of the Philly games for sure.
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 6:12 AM PST up reply actions
I doubt I’ll go to all 3 like I did last year, just too disappointed in the offseason, but I’ll go to at least 1….
by Missing Barry on Feb 9, 2010 7:16 AM PST up reply actions
If you're going to get all neighborhoody...
Spanish Harlem for me.
Anyone know of a pro-Giants bar in the city? Been out here five years, and I still haven’t found one.
Sugar Hill for me, about half a mile from the Polo Grounds. You’d think there’d still be a Giants bar or two up here, but if so I haven’t found it.
There may not be a Giants bar now, but if the three of us are that close together, we could probably take someplace over pretty effectively. Evan, you and I are especially close — I’m right near Amsterdam and 125th.
i'm on 77th and columbus
moved here in november so i haven’t watched any giants games in the neighborhood. i usually go to finnerty’s south of union square for niners games but have checked out blondie’s up here on 79th- any other sports bars i should be aware of?
Dodgers fans eat their young.
I go to Blondie’s a lot because my softball team likes it, but it’s always crawling with blowhard Yankees fans. But then, all New York sports bars are crawling with blowhard Yankees fans.
The Riviera
I used to go the The Riviera to root for my second favorite team…..Whomever is playing the Yankees…I celebrated there the night the Sox took Game 7 in the 2004 ALCS….It was awesome….Like an anti-Yankee oasis in the middle of Yankee nation…..
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Feb 10, 2010 5:27 AM PST up reply actions
man, y'all are way uptown
Back when I was in Manhattan, I was way on the other side of the island – first East 21st Street near Gramercy Park, then the Financial District, then Greenwich Village. I never got to know Uptown at all, which is one of my regrets about my time there, along with not spend much time in the outer boroughs.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
Gramercy? FD?
How about “Guy who steals hipsters’ girlfriends when they decide they want a dude with a job.”
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
And like all good Williamsburg residents...
Nah, I got nothing. There are no good Williamsburg residents.
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
heh
Actually, “College student.”
I never could’ve afforded to live in any of those places otherwise.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
If you're willing to come out to the OTHER City...
Pacific Standard at 4th Ave. and St. Marks in Brooklyn. It’s not a Giants bar so much as a Bay Area bar (and looks nothing like any bar I’ve ever been to in the Bay Area, but they do ship Its-Its in on dry ice), and while it does tend to get overrun by A’s fans (which are apparently everywhere except Oakland), they’re happy to put the Giants game on, too.
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
Also, there's a Scott Garrelts baseball card embedded in one of the tables.
Fun!
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
I was absentmindedly fishing for this… I read about that place awhile ago but forgot about it. What makes this better is that I was in Flatbush off the Q for a year (just moved back to Manhattan a few months ago). Pacific Standard would have been my default bar if I had remembered it then…
But I’d still be up for checking that place at any time.
Giants games notwithstanding, Pacific Standard is a pretty great bar if you like your beer. They have a bunch Sixpoints, and then everything else is some West Coast micro. (Plus, their trivia night is the only free one I know of in BK) Also, if MCC-NYC want to decide on a date (opening day/night) we might be able to get them to reserve the big projector screen in back for us.
I have the most disastrous luck with girls there, on the other hand. On the other other hand, that’s not particularly unique to Pacific Standard.
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
yeah, I'm in
That’d be a perfect spot for for a meet-up. Let’s make it happen sometime early in the season.
I too think that Pacific Standard is a kick-ass bar, and would be happy to help bring a little orange-and-black to balance the green-and-gold (and, um, navy-and-silver of Seattle ex-pats).
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 9, 2010 10:15 PM PST up reply actions
DC. I’m walking distance from Nats Stadium.
And as I’m thinking of making a few roadtrips to Richmond for the Squirrels, I probably won’t be taking in any of the Giants other East Coast series this year.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I’d like to get up there on their opening weekend but we’ll see how it goes. One nice thing about my job is I have an alternate work schedule that gives me Wednesday’s off, so I might try to take advantage of some of those for making Squirrels games, too.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Actually, looking at their schedule I got a happy surprise. They have been realigned to the Southern Division, which means, of interest to me, that instead of being in Bowie for 1 series a year, they’re going to be there every month, with several weekend series, including 4 games on the opening weekend of the season — I am so there! But that’s potentially going to lessen my interest in making many drives down to Richmond (Bowie’s stadium is only about 25 minutes from my front door). But I would like to have a Richmond McCoven get together sometime this season.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Roger
I really want to convince myself to make the 16 hour drive to Richmond to see the Airborne Squirrels this summer. Email me if you decide on any firm dates – that might sway my opinion.
"And we plead and we pray for a glimmer of day,
As the night folds its wings and descends, exposing the loose ends."
Proud adoptive parent of Sergio Romo. Looking forward to adopting Justin Smoak.
My wife really wants to go visit JMU, where she went to college, some time – if we do manage to do that, I’m definitely going to going to lobby for a side-trip to Richmond for to seethe Flying Squirrels.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
Whats the drive to Richmond like? I have a friend in Bethesda, is it drivable from Bethesda?
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 7:02 AM PST up reply actions
Oh yeah, it’s about 2 hours and virtually the entire way is on Interstates. Hop on the Beltway out of Bethesda, take it to 95 and 95 takes you right into Richmond. If I recall there’s even an exit off I95 for the Stadium.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
About 2 hours from Bethesda or so. Not too bad.
by Missing Barry on Feb 9, 2010 7:17 AM PST up reply actions
Going down to Richmond for NASCAR weekend and getting to a Squirrels game on the side could be a lot of fun…
by Missing Barry on Feb 9, 2010 7:20 AM PST up reply actions
I’m in DC. Barring awful storms like last year, I’ll be seeing the Giants when they’re here.
Osiris, Lord of the Dead, and relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.
I went even with the awful storms. All three nights. I think there may be something wrong with me. :(
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I assume you are the only one here to see the 300-game in person?
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by Giant among Angels on Feb 8, 2010 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
I was there to see 300. Couldn’t show up until the 4th inning because of the weird start time. Only like 2K fans tops, and they all seemed to be Giants fans/rooting for history.
Then I stuck around in the miserable weather until the second game was suspended. Last summer was waaayy too wet.
Kinda like this winter. We get it, snow is white. Stop it.
That second game just sucked! The entire time I was just thinking to myself “why am I staying for this? I should just get up and leave” over and over and over on an endless and futile loop until they finally had mercy and sent us home. Worse yet, I sat around for the entire rain delay the night before which was just brutal, because I was afraid they were going to figure out a way to get that game played.
That said, the first game was a lot of fun once I moved up to the CF bar area. Seemed like most of the crowd was up there by the end of the game and it was really festive. Good thing about Nats crowds are they’re mostly populated by real baseball fans so you can have some great baseball conversations with strangers.
BTW, they’ve revised today’s “wintry mix” storm to another 10-20" monster. WTF!
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
We’re supposed to get 6-12" down here, looks like DC and Northern VA is going to get hit harder.
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We’re gettinng….rain.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
Warm enough. It’s been getting down into the high 30s overnight.
We actually had a cold snap in early January where it was in the 20s for a while. It gets colder here than peninsular Florida, but that’s still awfully cold for here.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
16 inches in Philly :(
However, essential staff only tomorrow :)
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 7:27 AM PST up reply actions
They never call off work here. My car with balding tires makes driving in snow exciting!
#1 FanShot Champion
We had work called off yesterday and today and somehow I still ended up working both days. :(
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I drove down to Bethesda not this past weekend but the weekend before, it was a light snow 4 inches or so accumulated total. Every single car that was rear wheel drive was facing the wrong direction on the road. It was humorous to watch them drive in the snow.
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 7:33 AM PST up reply actions
I was in Bethesda last weekend. It was miserable. Total disaster.
by Missing Barry on Feb 9, 2010 7:34 AM PST up reply actions
Dude, I have jury duty in Center City tomorrow. FML.
by Missing Barry on Feb 9, 2010 7:33 AM PST up reply actions
I bet they call it off. Call the hot line.
Also sometimes cases are settled so they need less jurors than usual, so they cancel some people.
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 7:35 AM PST up reply actions
I’m praying for it. You’re supposed to call the hot line the night before so I’ll find out what the deal is tonight. If I have to go that will be awful…
by Missing Barry on Feb 9, 2010 7:39 AM PST up reply actions
This is how the philly.com describes it.
First comes Snowzilla from the Midwest. Then up from the South comes the Flakenstein Monster.
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 7:28 AM PST up reply actions
Brooklyn. In the (very long shadow of Ebbets ghost.
"Don't trust anyone under the age of 30" - Brian Sabean
by Smotheredinhugs on Feb 9, 2010 6:18 AM PST up reply actions
(very long)
"Don't trust anyone under the age of 30" - Brian Sabean
by Smotheredinhugs on Feb 9, 2010 6:20 AM PST up reply actions
Ugh.
Did Brooklyn Brewery’s Pennant Ale drive you fucking bonkers, too?
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Spacebat of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
I’d like to say that I won’t drink it, but it’s damned good. And it’s cool that Brooklyn still represents like that. I just wish the Giants had the same hagiographers. I hate how they’ve been edited out of the city’s collective memory like they were Trotsky pictures in Stalin’s album. Or Dick Jauron in this year’s Buffalo Bills team photo.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 9, 2010 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll mention that I’m in Tallahassee, even though that’s the gulf coast, not the east coast (it’s almost as far west as Chicago!), and even though y’all know that already.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
So you consider Ohio, parts of Kentucky and Michigan the east coast?
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2010 7:17 AM PST up reply actions
There’s no Coast in Kentucky! (though there is in Michigan. Hm…)
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn (like the terrible Rhea Perlman movie!) until the end of the mpnth, and then it’s up to Astoria, Queens to make the big move-in with the girlfriend.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 9, 2010 10:11 PM PST up reply actions
Maryland!
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by theghostofjasonellison on Feb 10, 2010 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
/sobs
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
I made the drive down to Atlanta last year from NC…It’s a good 6 hours for me, but depening on how we are doing this year, I might be game…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Feb 8, 2010 3:50 PM PST up reply actions
Atlanta’s probably the only place there’s any chance I could do. Well, Tampa Bay, but the Giants aren’t playing there.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
I may have a business trip for an ATL series but now the boss is waffling about sending us. So who knows at this point.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
I am in NC, but grew up around NYC going to Mets games…I would love to see Citifield…I can’t make any promises, but I would love to try to go…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Feb 8, 2010 3:49 PM PST reply actions
/sees opportunity for non-East Coasters to influence the vote
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Vote Natinals!
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Blargh
I always see the Giants at least 2-3 times whenever they come to DC. Of course this season, my team’s having a homestand too. I realized this in November and there was much gnashing of teeth.
Those games at both RFK and the new stadium are always chock full of Giants fans too. Lots of fun.
I might be able to make the Nationals series.
Still in despair.
"Use the stencil! Do it!"
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…
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Still in despair.
"Use the stencil! Do it!"
konakona:「つかさに教われと...なんか非常に負けたような気がする。」
Shun Kakazu: MOAR JAPANESE PROSPECTS PLZ
by Zetsuboushita on Feb 9, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
!!!
What was that noise?
???
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 9, 2010 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
Montclair, NJ
But Washington’s timing looks better for me this year. Also, anyone who is going to Pittsburgh won’t regret it. Great ballpark and really nice fans.
I was all set to go to Toronto this year for that series. Then I found out about Canada’s immigration policy vis a vis DUIs, which can be summed up rather neatly as “stay the fuck out of Canada.”
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 9, 2010 10:35 PM PST up reply actions
When I was camping on the San Juans (tween Washington and Vancouver Is) I actually got deported because I didn’t have “enough money” to enter Canada. Jerk immigration officials perpetuating some Brazil-esque bureaucratic crap there.
Then again, my only other run in with the law was a ticket I received in Union Square for feeding the pigeons.
I was threatened with arrest once at the state capitol building in Sacramento. The horrid offense? Blowing bubbles on the grounds of the Capitol; which apparently, is a sport.
I guess telling the CHP officer that I’d never actually seen bubble blowing in the Olympics wasn’t exactly the wisest course of action, but seriously. Me personally, I never would have taken 21 five-year olds down to the Capitol. Huzzah for contrived media events that backfire!
That’s funny. When I was in school at Boston we used to do annual pilgrammage up to Winter Festival in Quebec, with a Winnebago loaded up with kegs, drunken college kids and other less legal things and the border guys would pretty much just waive us thru. Granted that was a few decades back.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
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