My more pedestian single moment would be Cruz Jr. catching that damn fly ball.

Because of this, Hindenburg goes to the Dodgers.

After a brilliant set-up job by Accardo, Blowmeatz comes into a game and strikes out Hindenburg during some important Giants Dodgers game that takes place due in some way to signing Vlad.

The whole team/city is so blown away by this that they throw Armondo a victory feast entitled "He Did His Job".  Unfortunately, after his 10th cheeseburger, he suffers a massive heart attack.

But, because I don't wish death on him just for being some ass*ole who can't pitch and talks sh*t, he recovers, retires to the Caribbean, and founds some baseball school from which the Giants gain multiple Villalona's for years to come.

How's that for alternate?

1. resigning Jeff Kent instead of sending him off to clean monster trucks....errrrrrr popping wheelies on motorcycles, leaving us with a perennial hamstring problem.  
2. AJ was never born and somebody had the forethought to try Nathan at the closer spot.
3. The Lesbians that got kicked out of Chaves Latrine came back with a car bomb a month later. (of course there are a lot of Dodger Fans that would like this to happen)
4. Sabian kicks one too many tires, loses a toe, retires, and Ned Colletti takes over.
5. They lowered the cost of Beer at the stadium at the beginning of last year... I know that doesn't have anything to do with the club per say, but it sure would have made it more bearable making the roadie up there to watch that abortion of a season.

Umm . . .in recent memory, I'll say the Accardo trade was horrible and that it remains to be seen what will become of the Zito signing.  I suppose the same could be said of Rowand, who knows . . .

Go into the 2004 season with Yorvit Torrealba as the starting catcher.  Everything else falls into place from here.

Liriano (the other one) doubles
Eric Young singles.
Andres Galarraga hits a sharp grounder to Terry Pendleton at 3B, who, dreaming of polishing his MVP trophy, boots the grounder into foul territory.  2 runs score, Galarraga on 2nd.
* Charlie Hayes * singles to right, and Galaragga scores.

Rockies win 6-5.  Giants beat Atlanta in 1-game playoff, then crush the Phillies and the Blue Jays.

* Bolded * players are richly rewarded when they become Giants, well past their primes.  I am pretty sure Sabean is actually from THIS universe.

Not that I am bitter about it or anything.

Then she dumps his sorry ass right then and there, points in my direction and says "I'm gonna go have steaming hot monkey sex with that geeky overweight guy right over there."

1. Orlando Cepada gets traded earlier in his career for a really good starter, and not Ray Sadecki.
2. Gaylord Perry isn't traded for Sam McDowell and his whiskey bottle.

3) Horace Stoneham doesn't trade away a ton of good outfielders because they're not Willie Mays.

And this might be controversial but..

4) Horace Stoneham (and Walter O'Malley) turn down overtures from the West Coast and stay in New York.

I argue this because I think the move of the New York franchises (and the others as well, but obviously the Giants and Dodgers were the seismic shocks) greatly hurt baseball. A lot of very powerful people lost their favorite team, and I think this may have had a negative effect on the health of the game.

But..fear not, because..

5) The PCL franchises are integrated into the Majors.

Go Seals!

Anyway, while the others above are good choices and probably more significant to the franchise than what I'm going to offer up, I just like the thought of it:  Hank Aaron decides to take the Giants offer instead of the Milwaukee Braves and joins the Giants.  With him in RF, Mays in CF, McCovey in LF, Cepeda at 1B, that would have been quite a lineup.

My other thought, just popped up, comes in second, is this:  Giants sign Barry Bonds when they drafted him instead of letting him go to college.  Nuff said.

My third, just popped up, is this:  Giants draft Mark McGwire instead of Alan Cockerell and are somehow able to get McGwire to play adequately at 3B (A's had him there when they brought him up).  That means Will Clark at 1B, Robbie Thompson at 2B, Matt Williams at SS, and Mark McGwire at 3B.  That with #2, we would have Barry in LF or CF.

Another would be starting Kirk Rueter in game 7 instead of Livan "Little" Hernandez, though obviously Dusty NOT taking out Ortiz is a better route.  Given what we know today about Nen's physical health, why, WHY did he go to the bullpen so early when the starting pitcher is doing well?  

Lastly, I would offer, Juan Marichial pitching only 1 game in a 7 game series in 1962?!?  Since we have hindsight, we know how good he became, still, he was a pretty good pitcher even then, though the Giants had a pretty good staff overall in terms of low ERA (and the other starters did well, to be fair, O'Dell is probably the big question mark since he lost the first game by a big margin).  Still, how could they not start him twice at some point?

A sort of related to baseball alt-reality proposal: Actually talking to the cute boy Cardinals fan who tried flirting with me at a game in 2005. It was a mid July night and foggy as Hades, and I went with two friends who ended up getting married to each other the next year. How about that? Sitting in the arcade, I wrote up the lineups on my scorecard and this attractive young man (aka, a regulation hottie) wearing a Cardinals cap kept trying to flirt with me. I'm exceptionally dense when it comes to the male intention and how it relates to me, plus I was even more of a hardass then about how sports events=sports events, no flirting, dating, kissy face, and all that allowed. I broke my own rule later in 2006, but whatever. I totally shut him down...complete ice queen act. Later when we left the ballpark my friends asked me why I didn't flirt back with Cute Cardinals boy and now I realize I was a stupid ugly moron with an ugly face and my butt smells and I like to kiss my own butt.

So I'd like to change that and actually have been nice to Cute Cardinals Boy. I blame that night of poor judgement on why I am cursed in dating now. It's the universe cashing in the bad karma generated from shutting him down for no good reason other than me being a failure.

I just want to see Bonds hit that last AB over that center field fence. That's all I want. It would have been so remarkably, symmetrically, legendarily perfect. That's all I want. One AB in a completely meaningless game.