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Henry Schulman BLUE CHECK MARK
@hankschulman
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.
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Dec 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
A few ancillary thoughts: 1. People are already ripping Zaidi for not being able to close a big deal. These contracts are never about one executive. Ownership is heavily involved. If he really turned down $400m from #padres, tells me he felt NY was closer to title and/or …. …. his heart was still in New York. I still haven’t seen a firm report on what #SFGiants offered. 2. I haven’t still and continue to maintain, as I said on @KNBR months ago, #SFGiants don’t need a superstar player to win titles. It’s a selling-tickets issue. While I still …
Oct 14, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
So, against my better judgment I'm going to wade into the two sports betting initiatives on the California ballot and why I'm voting no on each. My reasons have nothing to do my feelings about sports betting in general and how they've impacted our professional leagues, nor ... ... gambling in general. I'm not a prude. I've been known to put a few shekels down on the tables in Vegas. I'd like to start by explaining how the California initiative process has gone to shit. It began more than 100 years ago as part of the progressive movement in reaction...
Sep 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Aa little story about that topic. On Sunday at Oracle, I freelanced the gamer for AP. AP runs nuts-and-bolts stories and you usually mention the winning and losing pitcher. Since the #dodgers starter didn't go five innings, it appeared (when the score was 2-1 LA) that Caleb ... .... Ferguson would be the winner if the score held because he was the pitcher of record when LA went ahead. I did what writers have done in press boxes since before I was born. I walked up to the scorer and said, "Ferguson would be the winner, right?" The scorer responded, ....
Aug 3, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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) ... WAS baseball. The voice was omnipresent. At the ballpark people brought their radios so they could know what Vinnie was saying about the game they were seeing. You couldn't not hear it. The broadcast had a postgame feature in which Vin would read questions sent in by ...(2/x)
Oct 31, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So, with no hysteria, name-calling or yelling, I'm going to try to explain why the chop and chant are racist and fans should not continue it. My hope is to have just ONE Atlanta fan in the comments go, "You know, if you put it that way..." 1/8 ....The chop and chant are insensitive because they perpetuate stereotypes that most of us and our parents and grandparents all saw depicted in TV and in the movies, depicting Native Americans as war-mongering heathens who speak English in a stilted way and just want to ... 2/8
Oct 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Just finished watching @KenBurns remarkable documentary on Muhammad Ali. This photo is from 2010 in the #SFGiants' spring training clubhouse. I'm obviously honored to be in the photo, although I was troubled at the time because he had just taken so many pictures with players.... Image ... Bochy, staff, etc... and he seemed tired. He toured the Cactus League getting players to sign up for Athletes for Hope and commit to community service. He couldn't speak by then, or barely did. So many players wanted Ali to shake a fist at them for their photos, and he ...
May 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The ridiculous cost of commercial real estate, for one. I'd have to think #athletics and the city could woo companies to build there. Need for more affordable housing, and @mlb now sees how teams can generate revenue with dining/drinking/entertainment venues in the ... @MLB ... ballpark villages that the league and teams want around each park. The #braves did it in a non-downtown area (albeit a more well-to-do area). But this is where tax breaks can be palatable. Many cities, counties and states woo business with tax incentives. The public can ...
May 30, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
OK, @davekaval, you're about to get some truth from a long-time member of the "SF Media." But I also got my metro newspaper start with seven years at the Oakland Tribune. I lived in Berkeley when I went to Cal and in the East Bay for all but nine of the 42 years ... ... I have been in NorCal. I have some standing here. I've been here almost as long you've and I've seen more than you, and I have to say I have never witnessed a more incompetent attempt to secure a new ballpark than what I've seen with you. First, I would have thought ...
Jan 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Dr. Sarah Cody prevented more COVID deaths in the United States than any single individual and her reward has been death threats and idiotic comments from people like this. We really do live in the Dumbest Country on Earth™️. Get your priorities straight. Dr. Cody’s job is not to worry about your precious baby’s completion percentage. San Jose St.’s football team spat in her face and violated the health orders right and left ahead of its bowl game. The results? A COVID outbreak among coaches and players.
Jan 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Every protagonist needs an antagonist, every cheering fan someone to boo. Speaking from a San Francisco perspective, I submit that Tommy Lasorda was a perfect foil, and not because he was a bad guy. Quite the opposite, as a man who began his #dodgers career in Brooklyn .... .... at a time when the #dodgers and Giants did hate one another, Lasorda was loyal to his colors but understood what the rivalry became on a much mellower coast. Hatred? Not like in New York. A disdain that extended beyond the teams toward the other teams’ cities? Yeah....
Dec 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So a week ago, my mom needed to be rushed by ambulance to the ER. She’s 88 and lives in LA County. I won’t bury the lede. She was diagnosed with an infection in sent home so she wasn’t going to need an ICU bed. But here’s how the night went. .... 1/x .... The ambulance had to bypass the large hospital near my mother’s apartment because the ER was full. They took her to a more distant and much smaller hospital, which was also full. Because of Covid, my sister could not go into the ER area to comfort her and ask .... 2/x
Nov 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Your basic two-part STS (Stick to Sports) analysis of why Biden won:

1. Coronavirus
2. Trump's chickens coming home to roost after five years of insults and horrible comments. To wit:

a) He ripped venerated John Lewis and Lewis' Georgia "crime-ridden" district. If Biden...1/4 .... holds on in Georgia, Lewis' district in Clayton County will be the difference.

b) Trump constantly shredded cities, especially those with large Black populations like Philly, as anarchist-run zoos. It backfired. Black people came through in big numbers (in no small ... 2/4
Oct 17, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Thirteen-tweet thread on coronavirus and the thoughts of one member of the #SFGiants in 4..3..2..1... Fair warning to skip it if you're not interested in my thoughts on the matter..... ...However, a few folks yesterday did ask me for my thoughts on this tweet from @Evan3Longoria the other day.
Oct 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Quick Dusty Baker story. The #SFGiants lost a night game because of a misplay in the outfield. Something like two guys colliding and the ball popping out. In the story I filed right as the game ended, I said Player A appeared to be at fault. Postgame, we asked Dusty and ... ... he said, no, Player B was the guilty one. So I wrote that when I went upstairs to do my final-edition/web story. Next day he asks me into his office, shows me the early edition of our paper and asks me in a pissed-off way why I would write Player A when he said it was ...
Sep 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So here is an example of how a real country does things. My nephew attends the University of British Columbia. When they shut down in March he flew home to LA for the summer. He needed to return last month. They are still holding classes remotely, but he didn’t want to risk ... .. losing his student visa by being away too long. So he drove up from LA. When he got to the land crossing, and showed the Canadian immigration guard his student visa, the guard proceeded to quiz him for five minutes and where exactly he was going, what he was studying, why ...
Feb 11, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It's not a head-scratcher, and you've given me an opening to post a thread I've been meaning to write for a while. It has to do with the #SFGiants in particular and baseball in general. So here goes.... ... You wanted sabermetrics? You wanted front offices filled with analysts huddled over computers twisting numbers this way and that? You got 'em, and here's what that means: Free agents who want to be paid on what they've done, as they have for four decades, are running into ...
Jul 28, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Look. Last I checked, tweets are free. You can tweet SELL SELL SELL till your fingers fall off, but that’s not their mindset now. There’s also a difference between “selling” and “SELLING.” Let’s day for the sake of argument the #sfgiants actually took a long, hard look in .... .... the mirror and decided they should go in for a rebuild. It’s not gonna happen, but let’s pretend. It would be foolish for them to try to move guys like Bumgarner, Belt, Panik, etc... now, in a panic, because they’ve had a 2-5 week. That’s the kind of thing you do in ....