Your favorite...

[SF Kid]

...Giants player of all time is?

Any cool stories to go along with your choice?

You've heard mine so I'll spare you! :p

[Bear]

...Giants player of all time is?

Any cool stories to go along with your choice?

You've heard mine so I'll spare you! :p

Not everyone has heard yours. So tell it again.:D

[Sucka Free]

Willie Mays is mine. No doubt.

[McCovey]

This may sound crazy but Barry Bonds is my favorite Giant of all time. I know he cheated with PEDs and is a total a-hole to people. But he has given me so many thrills as a baseball fan. I have so many Bonds stories but I two of favoritea. I'll start with this one.

October 1st, 1993.
The Giants and Braves are fighting tooth and nail for the NL West Crown. This is before the wild card exists so only one team will make the playoffs. The Giants end the season with four games in Los Angeles. The Braves end with three at home against the expansion Rockies. I knew the Giants would have to sweep the four game set because the Rockies hadn't beaten the Braves all season (in fact they ended up 0-13 against the Braves in '93 :mad:). I found out the last time the Giants swept a four game series on the road from the Dodgers was in 1923.

The Giants win the Thursday game 3-1 behind Billy Swift's 21st win. The Friday game is one of the most incredible games I have ever witnessed. It was John Burkett vs Ramon Martinez. The Dodgers intnetionally walked Bonds in the top of the 1st inning. The Dodgers jump out to a 4-0 lead after two innings. In the top of the third the Giants score a run when Bonds comes to bat with two men on. He crushes a three run HR to tie the game, 4-4. In the top of the 5th inning Will Clark singles and Matt Williams doubles, sending Clark to third base. Bonds comes to bat and crushes another three run HR. The score is now 7-4. Bonds comes to bat again in the 7th inning with Will Clark on base. Bonds hit a sharp double to drive in Clark. The score is now 8-4. The Dodgers score a run in bottom of the 7th and two more in the 9th. The Giants eeked out an 8-7 win.

Bonds goes 3-3, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 2 R, 1 BB :bowdone:

[Bear]

This may sound crazy but Barry Bonds is my favorite Giant of all time.


It does not sound crazy to me. It shows guts when one steps up, and picks a player who so many people hate for very poor reasons. Bonds is one of the five greatest players of all time and should be thought of as one of the greats. Now he will be lucky to make the Hall. No I can understand why he is your favorite Giant.:beerbang:

[SF Kid]

Not everyone has heard yours. So tell it again.:DI think you two have. :D

Great post Mac...

[Bear]

For me it is impossible to pick a favorite Giant. In my youth it was Mays, McCovey & Cepeda. And these were just position players.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's it was Clark, Thompson, & Williams. To this day if I have a reason to hate Sabean it is because he traded away Williams and let Clark go through free agency. I know Kent came as part of the package for Williams and that Kent will be a Hall of Famer, but Williams was special, and will always be a Giant to me. Sabean said he needed to make these moves to build a contender, but in my mind if you could not build a contender with Clark, Thompson & Williams you had big problems.

Now you might say, but who is you favorite of all time? Well that would be Will Clark. He brought his A game to the field every game. To me he was and still is the Giants. The player who comes close on todays roster is Omar. He is very special also even though I think his days with the Giants are numbered. :twocents:

[McCovey]

The Thrill is right behind Bonds for me. I still remember his first ever major league AB in the Astrodome against Nolan Ryan. I was watching it in TV. He hit a HR! And I'll never forget his game one performance in the '89 NLCS.Clark goes 4-4, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 4 runs. He takes Greg Maddux deep for a grand slam!!! :woot:

[SF Kid]

Willie Mays is/was a god.

Nobody can ever be ahead of the Say Hey Kid in the kid's eyes.

Willie Mays epitomizes baseball as far as I am concerned. There will never be another Say Hey Kid.

[McCovey]

Willie Mays is/was a god.

Nobody can ever be ahead of the Say Hey Kid in the kid's eyes.

Willie MAys epitomizes baseball as far as I am concerned. There will never be another Say Hey Kid.
So are you kinda, sorta, implying that Willie Mays is probably, maybe, your favorite all-time Giant? :shrug:

:D

I REALLY wish I could have seen Mays play.:dance: When he retired in 1973 I was just five years old. :(

[Bear]

So are you kinda, sorta, implying that Willie Mays is probably, maybe, your favorite all-time Giant? :shrug:



I REALLY wish I could have seen Mays play.:dance: When he retired in 1973 I was just five years old. :(

Mays really retired before you were born, but he just did not know it. Mays was great in his day and he knew it. Mays was a legend even in his own mind.:rolleyes:

[jimm]

Will Clark I'd say, should have stayed a Giant :( will never forget the radio call of his first ab (and dinger) off Nolan Ryan.

[coda19]

I know he wasn't a Giant for very long, but watching him play shortstop was a thing of beauty:

Omar Vizquel