Freelance writer, broadcaster, editor with a baseball bent. Planning to write an $8 check to Twitter each month then drop it into the toilet so I can soil it.
Before my mom turned 88 this summer, she feared cancer had returned for a third bout. (It didn't.) She told her onco, "Just keep me alive long enough to vote against Trump."
This helluva woman got her wish.
Ella Schulman
8/28/1932-12/28/2020
Dear friends and readers, I hit the professional lottery getting to cover the
#SFGiants
for more than 30 years. But now it's time for me to move on. I am leaving The Chronicle and retiring from daily journalism. My story:
Hi Aubrey. Where was your jacked body and strong immune system when you sprained your knee hopping over the dugout railing to celebrate Matt Cain’s no-hitter? Cheer! 😎
Good morning. I think Shawn Estes is doing a terrific job as a color analyst, and I told him so last night. Terrific analysis a la Krukow. Understated humor. Works well with whomever he shares a booth. Knows when to talk and when not to. I hope he does more.
#sfgiants
Alyssa Nakken is coaching first base now, and I don't care if it's a practice game. Seeing a woman in the coaching box in a big-league stadium in a game is cool.
#SFGIants
Seeing Cole still holstered after Greinke came out, and Harris giving up the two-run go-ahead bomb just provides another reminder of the hugeness of Bum's five innings in Game 7 in 2014...three days after pitching a shutout.
Are some people really complaining that Bryant did not get here in time for today’s game after learning he was traded, while in uniform, three times zones away at 4 PM local time, when he has a wife and family, and would have required a 5.5-hour flight? Get a grip.
In Pence's retirement-announcement video: "I'm looking forward to being a Giants fan now. After every win we're lucky enough to hear "I Left My Heart in San Francisco.' Know that my heart will always be in San Francisco. Be safe, be healthy, only love."
#SFGiants
I’m a Jew and son of Holocaust survivors. I do not believe after six years in the majors and a lengthy coaching career Ryan Christenson suddenly decided it would be fun to celebrate a win with a Nazi salute. I believe him. Glad he apologized and understands offense. Let’s move on
Dear followers. As many of you know I have fought depression for nearly a decade now. It's a treatable illness. Asking for help is not a weakness. If you are like me and the millions of others who feel or have felt hopelessness, please pick up the phone.
Popular
#SFGiants
broadcaster
@FlemmingDave
promised he wouldn't leave y'all to go big-time national, and he isn't. He and the club have a new four-year deal. The story:
EXCLUSIVE TO ME FOR : I texted Belt and asked for his reaction to Crawford's scoreless inning, and getting the first shot among the two to pitch in a big-league game. "Yeah, that's great," Belt said. "But I would have pitched an immaculate inning."
I'll flat say it. Hunter Pence has done enough for this franchise that, money aside, he deserves a fair shot to prove he can contribute before the
#SFGiants
think about cutting him loose.
This season might go down as a great example of two heavyweights winning 107 and 106 games beating each other senseless over the course of 167 games, leaving the survivor too bloodied to beat its next opponent. Buehler. Scherzer, Urias all got taxed vs SF, and it showed vs. ATL
Whenever I part with Brandon Belt for the final time, my lasting memory will be something that he said in the clubhouse tonight after the game. He looked at Homeroom, Baggs and I and said unsolicited, “Do yourselves a favor guys. Go to the Ritz-Carlton and get the chicken strips.
Are some 49ers fans really angry about this game? Jimmy G didn’t have his tight end and then lost his best receiver early in the game. His center was out for a long time, they lost their nose tackle, they had a rookie kicker. Seattle still needed 75 minutes to win.
@annkillion
I always thought of
@gkittle46
and
@hunterpence
as twins. Hunter had his triple-double hit to win a playoff game, and now George has his triple-bobble catch to win a playoff game. Someone get their blood for a DNA test.
#49ers
.
When I was a boy, I had a transistor radio in the shape of a box. It was brown and had a small silver dial for the volume and larger dial to tune the station. Home games were never on TV then. That little box was my lifeline to the
#dodgers
and baseball. Vin Scully .... (1/x)
Just saw that Henry Kuiper, farmer, husband, dad to Duane, Glen and Jeff, died peacefully in Racine yesterday. My condolences to the entire family and all who knew Henry. Duane talks about him reverently. There is an obit in the local paper. I’ll try to find it and post.
#rip
Congratulations to Farhan Zaidi, Scott Harris, Gabe Kapler and a multitude of others for an impossible 107-win season and West title. Not least the 14 coaches and all players. In their wildest imagination,
#dodgers
could not have believed 8-year reign ends w/ 106 wins.
#SFGiants
It really is so rare that athletes call it quits while they are on top. What a great comeback Buster had in 2021. Got one more postseason too.
#sfgiants
Which is why I always pick up my food when I can. Also, if you use Grubhub or Door Dash and probably Uber Eats to order online, they often take a cut even if you pick up the food. If you have the option, phone the restaurant directly with your order and get the food yourself.
Uber Eats just spent $5.5 million plus whatever it cost to get Cardi B, Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey to tell us to "support local restaurants" while putting local restaurants out of business by charging them 30% delivery fees.
Everyone will remember Peter Magowan for Safeway and the ballpark. I choose to remember him as well as the man who did so much for AIDS research and awareness by creating Until There's a Cure Day at a time when the sports world wanted nothing to do with it.
#SFGiants
Take note
@NBCSGiants
and
@sfgiants
: You keep showing commercials with the traitorous pillow nazi on your network, I’m done with you. And a lot of Giants and Warriors fans will be, too. And I won’t let this go. Unacceptable.
California has 12 percent of the US population. We’ve had 3 percent of the COVID deaths. We also were the most aggressive state ordering distancing measures and shutting things down. How hard is this for people to understand? It doesn’t require a graduate degree in logic.
1. You don’t want to have this conversation with the son of two actual Holocaust survivors, and it’s a silly comparison 2. People who conflate kneeling with a disrespect for US troops are just giving a big tell that they don’t understand what the flag is supposed to represent.
From the moment Clayton Kershaw first stepped on a big-league mound, he has been a class act. He is a credit to his team and community. Going along with the Bumgarner appearance then tipping his cap to Bochy walking off the field were both nice gestures.
#SFGiants
University of California at Berkeley has launched the Cannabis Research Center that will explore the impacts of cannabis production on the environment and society, UC officials said Tuesday.
Gonna make this easy on some of you racists who keep pushing false equivalency between the 1/6 attempted overthrow of our government, spurred by Trump and his fascist allies, and sporadic looting by criminals taking advantage of peaceful BLM protests. Unfollow me and screw you.
One thing was true 50 years ago, 10 years ago and now. When you pull a starter as dominant as Snell was, it just gives the opposing dugout an amazing lift and sense of hope. Amirite ballplayers who follow me?
Today is the sixth anniversary of Travis Ishikawa’s pennant-winning walkoff homer. I’m retweeting the story link because this was one of my favorite
#SFGiants
postseason stories thanks to the lunacy of one Jake Peavy.
Honestly, if I were an
#SFGiants
fan, while happy for this great run, I might be more excited about the continuing influx of minor-leaguers from both the Sabean/Evans and Zaidi drafts/international signs + the amount of money Zaidi is now free to spend in free agency.
The brawl was Pittsburgh's fault. Pure bush league to throw behind a hitter because he admired a home run. You hit one into the Allegheny, you get to watch it for a second. This isn't 1968. Just play the damn game.
#reds
#pirates
Can someone please retweet all the pro sports team statements from 2016 praising Colin Kaepernick and saying that for him to make this point, and risk his career in silent, nonviolent protest, they should take actions within their communities to solve the problem? Thanksmuch.
Zaidi on
@knbr
: "I've certainly, in the lovely streets of this city, have had fans tell me they'd much rather trade me than our franchise pitcher."
#SFGiants
To my friends abroad. Don’t come to the United States now. And especially don’t send your children here. It’s too dangerous. I’m serious. Maybe in a generation or two it’ll get better. Maybe. Until then, there are some nice countries to visit. Some even have Disneylands.
Nuñez. Morse and Scutaro had one thing in common. You coukd tell every minute they were out there that they loved playing baseball. You can’t say that for everybody.
#sfgiants
Text from Hunter Pence: “I’m thrilled to be back. My role is to help whenever, wherever I can. I’m looking forward to doing what I love, which is be part of a wonderful team, city, and organization, and do what’s best every day for the whole.”
#sfgiants
I don’t care what their schedule looked like. What the
#SFGiants
have done in the first 44 games is pretty impressive. Especially since they have been beset by the same injury plague that has hit the rest of the league
Hard to believe it's been nearly eight years since the
#SFGiants
lost the NL's leading hitter to a steroid suspension only to play the best six weeks of their season on the way to a World Series sweep of Detroit.
#melkmen
Ladies and gentleman, Ray Black just completed a nine-inning reliever "no-hitter" dating to his major-league debut July 8. And he did it by striking out Goldschmidt on a 99 mph fastball and Pollock on 84-mph curve. Last 27 outs, no hits.
#SFGiants
NOTE: All cardboard cutouts attending the opener of the doubleheader will have to leave the ballpark and re-enter if they have tickets for the second game.
#SFGiants
An observation: We all know
#SFGiants
probably waited too long before rebuilding, but they still got three titles out of the last cycle of good prospects.
#cubs
and
#nationals
, who raised white flags today, got one title each. What SF did looks even more remarkable in comparison
I have a political science degree and have followed every presidential election since Nixon beat Humphrey. I covered politics in Sacramento and am versed in political structures of other Western societies. So you might want to stay in you’re lane, which happens to be BLOCKED.
@hankschulman
@StoneLarry
Please stick to sports. You appear intelligent in that space. Politics is not your lane and your attempts to delve into that side take away from what you are really good at. And to be fair, make you appear quite pedestrian. Next stop will be karaoke sports talk radio at 6am
Dear
@twins
fans, writers and players, Sam Dyson and Sergio Romo are two of the strangest cats I've covered, and now you have them both. Which reminds me, writers, ask Dyson about his cat, Snuckles.
#SFGiants
Big news from
@SportingGreenSF
.
@susanslusser
will replace me as
#SFGiants
beat reporter. I can’t think of a better choice. She is an amazing reporter with a wealth of experience and she’s going to do a fantastic job for you, along with
@JohnSheaHey
. Congrats to Susan.....
New Year’s brings many changes, so it seems like as good a time as any to let you all know that after two-plus decades covering the A’s, I’ll be moving over to the Giants beat, with my wonderful colleague Matt Kawahara taking over primary A’s coverage.
I just got a news release, and if I’m reading it right, the entire
#Phillies
-
#SFGiants
series this weekend will not be on TV here, but only streaming on Peacock network. I’ll read it again, but if that’s true, it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen and fans should be outraged.
Keyboard warriors have no clue what it’s like to play for one org 12 years, win a World Series, then suddenly have to say goodbye to everything and everyone he knows in pro ball. To expect him to fly X-country and play for a new team 12 hours after the call = heartless ignorance.
Confirmed that Dubon is the only piece coming back from Milwaukee. Zaidi turned a $1.5 million investment in Pomeranz and a 29-year-old reliever who could not crack the big-league roster into a 25-year-old potential everyday second baseman.
I just sat down at an indoor restaurant with safe spacing of tables and, for the first time, was asked to fill out a form with my name and phone number for contact tracing. Oddly enough, I did not feel my liberties as an American were violated, and was happy they did that.
Derek Holland told us Ichiro walked to the
#SFGIants
dugout after leaving the game to congratulate Bruce Bochy on his career. By this time next year both will be retired. "Legends respect legends," Holland said.
I’m happy for Freddie Freeman. Heart of this team for so long. Signed an 8-year deal and got rich, but shortly after
#braves
went on a rebuild. Won it in 8th year. Also for Will Smith, such a great guy who gave
#sfgiants
a lot in short time. Panda, who earned his ring …
Yastrzemski, Dickerson and Solano are great stories, but Belt is the
#SFGiants
’ MVP, and writers should find a spot for him somewhere on their ballots.
First sign of a rebuild. Duane Kuiper went up to a guy he thought was Michael Reed and told him he liked his at-bats thus far. The guy responded, “I make the coffee here.”
#sfgiants
As we speak, Marin County, Calif. has an 89.7% two-dose vaccination rate among all residents aged 5 and up. 97.9% have had at least one shot.
Know many of the county’s 254,539 residents are hospitalized right now?
Four.
There’s your test lab, rest of America.
More Americans have died of Covid in the last two years than died of AIDS from 1981-2000. And we have a vaccine to stop it. History will look back on this time in utter disbelief that a nation could be this ignorant, and could casually grow accustomed to such vast carnage.
2010 World Series hero Aubrey Huff has not been shy about posting his political views online. The
#SFGiants
, like many of their fans, believe some crossed a line of propriety. As such he won't be invited to a 10-year reunion planned this season. The story:
Getting to know Willie McCovey is not just a highlight of my career, but my life. When he would be taken to his car through the tunnel after games, fans who might have seen him play and those who surely didn’t seemed awed. They have to pay their respects. Even the young ones...
This week’s
#SFGiants
series in Boston will be all about Mike Yastrzemski and his grandfather, Carl. But Mike had a coach and mentor who influenced him far more than Carl did, He did not live long enough to celebrate all this. On Mike and his dad:
Here’s the nitty-gritty of the mask debate: If pro-mask people are wrong, then the country gets inconvenienced for a year or so. If the anti-mask people are wrong, tens of thousands die.
I asked Bochy about the SABR index that has Crawford as the 14th-best shortstop in the league. Bochy said it must have been written the same guy who annually ranked him the second-ugliest manager in the majors.
#sfgiants
You fans who are freezing your buns off, but were standing and cheering like crazy for Kelby Tomlinson to tie the game in Game 158 of a lost season, I salute you.
#SFGiants
The
#SFGiants
' season ends at 29-31 with the entire dugout screaming at home plate umpire Rob Drake, who did not have a good day. Giants were supposed to be terrible. They ended the year with the a guy who had a chance to put them into the playoffs standing on deck.
“Why don’t you pull up a chair and spend a part of Sunday with us.”
— Vin Scully, at the start of the rare
#dodgers
TV games of yore. Sunday road games and all games at Candlestick. That was it.