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This Week In Giants Facial Hair. (#3)

What sets men apart from boys…. besides being able to buy beer? Men can grow facial hair, ok…. men can bring gnarly amounts of hair to the surface of their faces. Let us sit and celebrate, mock, and marvel over the facial hair of your San Francisco Giants. 

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What’s going on in this picture? What Ishi is bringing to the table might just be a more molded and extended version of what he had before.

 But to me it is looking more like a facial hair style that has been unofficially banned from the Giants clubhouse……. More specifically THIS ONE:

Yes… I said it… “The Velez” has been officially baned from the clubhouse. Also…. Yes I AM trying to mention Velez in EVERY blog I do. 

Also it looks like Cody Ross is keeping the World Series beard. I see no evidence of him having one before last year. 

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Best Facial Hair of The Year …. (so far)

I just picked up a copy of this on Saturday…. This mustache makes me weep with joy. Sadly the scum-stash is gone…… hopefully not forever. 

Worst Facial Hair This Year…. (so far)

Hands down Jeremy Affeldt has had and currently has the worst facial hair ever. It straight up reminds me of a vagina.

Please Jeremy…. listen to reason… it looks terrible. Your a decent looking guy, but your ruining it with that landing strip. Stop…. please. 

Look at him during his Reds days… so much better. 

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There has been a lot of hair sticking out all over the field lately. Sometimes when I’m looking at a player I can see the hair sticking out behind from behind their neck. My hair used to be like that. (no I don’t have pics). I’ve noticed Pippen rocking an inordinate amount of hair lately. Just a huge mane back-flowing out the neck, pretty epic. But if he doesn’t watch out it he could be visited by the mullet fairy one night. 

Newcomer Culberson has been rocking the same hair wad. It’s as if they have an exhaust pipe out the back of their heads and a cloud of brown smoke got petrified on the way out.  

But when you can see a BEARD coming out the sides of a neck from BEHIND. THAT is EPIC. 

Congrats Brian…. your beard has passed the “fully epic” stage. 

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Random Scruff

Rowand, rocking his boxy scruff, a stupid smirk, his gamer stains. Too bad you can’t see it, cause his head is waaaaay up his ass. 

The only thing about Whiteside’s scruff is that it might be the only part of his hair that is not FULLY grey. It’s a small island of youth still clinging to his chin. 

Pablo….. This looks bad. either go for a beard, a mustache, or nothing. 

Scruff to the future?

This Week in Giants Facial Hair. (#2)

In a tragic turn of events, Tim Lincecum shaved his mouse-stache. 

It looks like Jeremy Affeldt is still sporting the terrible soul patch which will probably negatively affect his pitching.

Brian Wilson recently said that he was not promising to keep the beard all season. Which I think bodes well for my mustache prediction. Until then it seems that the beard is dominating. 

Our newest addition Jeff Suppan seems to be bringing a Circle Beard/Van Dyke/Goatee ya.. I’ve heard it call all three. But one thing is sure, it kinda looks bad. If you are growing facial hair, either go all the way to go mustache, just saying guys. 

uuuuuuuuuuugh, I LOVE this time of year, and I HATE it. Nothing to really write about, nothing to really talk about. Just a bunch of people talking about a bunch of stuff that isn’t baseball. 

Until next time…… grow a mustache. 

Boooooring Giants Tweets.

Ever since Brian Wilson and Zito shut down their twitter accounts (thanks to some assholes) the Giants presence on Twitter has taken a noticeable nosedive.

But with Pablo Sandoval jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, I figure I would pick apart what was left of the San Francisco Giants’ twitter accounts. Here are some “highlights” (lowlights).

• Thomas Neal on his @TdaddyNeal definitley is the one tweeting the most, and as far as I can tell has the “most to say” if you consider this….

@TdaddyNeal Thomas Neal “Watching the Steelers Vs Ravens play make me feel like I made the right choice picking baseball No way in hell would I let Ray Lewis Hit me”

something to say.

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• Ehire Adrianza wins the award for worst tweets ever, let me give you a sample.

@soncaballos ehire adrianza “33 dias para Spring Training”

Ya….. he’s been tweeting that for at least 64 days now. wow, buy an XBOX dude.

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• If you want a big mouth full of POSITIVE VIBES!!!!! Then take a gander at Jeremy Affeldt’s Twitter account, or even his blog?.?.. Although it is my immediate nature to ridicule someone for using a twitter account for good and not for what it was meant for, I will refrain, because I like Affeldt and in this day and age it kinda takes some kinda balls to be mister religious man. (oh but please Jeremy, can we refrain from this question!!!) Here is one of his (not his) better posts.

@JeremyAffeldt Jeremy Affeldt ““Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison”

Meh… not terrible, but pretty boring drivel.

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• Darren Ford is still in his Twitter diapers, as this is his only post.

@DarRunFord Darren Ford “Thanks for the love bout to learn how to tweet….lol”

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• On the other end of the talking spectrum is fan favorite Pablo Sandoval who has blown about 64 tweets or about one tweet every 45 minutes during his first two days on twitter. Hopefully Pablo can come up with something better than…..

@pandoval48 Pablo Sandoval “Well my friends is time to run…cardio time twitt off for few minutes”

……. you do that Pablo.. you do that.

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• The most instersting Twitter account and blog belongs to former Giants Minor Leaguer Garrett Broshuis who brings pretty funny and random tweets like:

@broshuis Garrett Broshuis “Sad gym tale: Old Cuban lady with whom I often prac spanish, hadn’t seen in months, no longer remembers me.”

And writes some seriously interesting blogs at his blog called, Minor League Life that everyone should check out.

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If anyone else wants to peek at all of the Giants who tweet you can see the full list here. Giants Tweeters

40 Giants in 37 days

37 days left until the regular season starts. So I figured I would go through the 40 man roster and tell you what I think of each Giant, how I think they are going to do this year. If I like them or not…… you know all the important stuff. I’m gonna start with the pitchers.

Jeremy Affeldt

How will he do this year?

While our bullpen was amazing last year, there was still a little too many tense situations for my comfort. But when Affeldt was in it seemed like out lead was safe. Watching the way hitters reacted to his wicked late breaking curveball is almost comical at times. I think Affeldt will surprise everyone and live up the the hype that he created last year.

Do I like the guy?

hmm. kinda. On one hand he violates several facial hair rules. On the other he seems like someone who would sit back and drink beer with you while watching some terrible TV show. Also I seem more drawn to players that can give an interview without resorting to cliches and Affeldt is pretty decent at this.

Would I hang out with the guy?

Probably not.

Will he be an essential part of 2010 Giants?

uhhh YES! This guy is absolutely essential for the Giants to have a good season.