High N Tight Saturday!!

🔥 FIRST PITCH — Drew Gilbert

Happy Saturday!

I’m scrolling through Giants highlights on my iPhone the other night when this guy in the dugout suddenly grabs my attention.

Slamming the railing. Screaming. Full-on maniac mode.

Meet Drew Gilbert — rookie outfielder, chaos enthusiast, and apparently the unofficial spark plug of the Giants’ late-season surge.

Remember when we wrote the Giants off? Yeah, they’re suddenly back in the mix — and a lot of people are giving Gilbert credit for lighting the fuse.

He makes no apologies:

“I put in a lot of work to get here. There’s no reason you shouldn’t let it fly when you go out on the field. You don’t put in all that work just to come out here and go into a shell.”

Translation: this dude is never chilling.

His dugout antics need their own highlight reel. One minute he’s hammering the dugout railing like a madman, the next he’s pacing the top step and gnawing on a teammate’s warmup jacket like he’s auditioning for a metal band.

San Francisco may have found their chaos engine — and we are so here for it… from a very safe distance.

And speaking of the Giants… they beat their hated rivals last night with a 10th-inning grand salami — while the Padres were busy losing to the Rockies.

What the hell is happening with the Padres?!

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⚾ Now That’s a Fan

Last week? Bad fan karma everywhere — grown adults yanking baseballs from kids and grandparents like it was Black Friday at Target.

This week? Baseball redemption.

In San Francisco, a fan snagged a ball and — without hesitation — turned and handed it to a little girl. No drama. No tug-of-war. Just pure baseball magic.

Faith in humanity: restored.
Ballpark etiquette: officially back from the dead. 👏

Giants fans, take a bow.

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🤒 Playoff Fever? Not Here.

Fifteen games left in the regular season. Half the league is scoreboard-watching. These six? Just counting the days until it’s over:

Rockies: Staring down a third straight 100-loss season and chasing the worst run differential in MLB history.
Pirates: Twenty-nine losing seasons in 33 years — at this point, mediocrity is a family heirloom.
White Sox: Might as well hang a sign: “Under Construction — Indefinitely.”
A’s: Playing in front of empty seats while Vegas waits with open arms.
Nationals: That 2019 parade confetti? Long gone. The hangover is officially in year six.
Orioles: From contender to… whatever this is. Injuries and inconsistency have turned 2025 into one giant shrug.

Six franchises. One giant group therapy session. Somebody bring snacks — it’s going to be a long winter.

🤦 Morgan Wallen’s Flippin’ Bat

This one isn’t just ugly — it’s flat-out dumb.

Country star Morgan Wallen decided to channel his inner José Bautista backstage before a concert this week. The plan: re-create Joey Bats’ legendary bat flip.

The result? A flying bat that — you can’t make this up — nailed Bautista’s wife in the face.

Thankfully, Mrs. Bautista is OK.

Wallen’s had his share of “moments” over the years, but this might be his most literal hit yet. Add it to the chaos highlight reel.

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If You Build It… They Will Come to…. Cairo?

This isn’t Iowa cornfield magic — it’s Egypt.

Kemp Gouldin swears he was driving through South Carolina one night, 80s music blasting, when a thought smacked him like a fastball: “Bring baseball to Egypt.”

Ok, I’ll bite.

Some guy is driving through South Carolina and decides this is the moment he’s going to bring baseball to Egypt? That’s not a business plan — that’s a full-on Field of Dreams vision quest.

It was his Ray Kinsella moment — you know, the fictional farmer from Field of Dreams, played by Kevin Costner.

And like Kinsella, Gouldin couldn’t shake it. He dug into history and found baseball’s fingerprints all over the Nile — barnstorming tours in 1889 and 1914.

And then this: Pharaoh Thutmose III reportedly playing a bat-and-ball game in 1460 BC.

Suddenly, it didn’t feel crazy. It felt inevitable.

He called MLB — they jumped in with their Play Ball initiative. Franklin Sporting Goods sent gear. Cairo schools opened their doors.

In 2017, Gouldin boarded a plane with volunteer coaches and a documentary crew, heart pounding like he was walking through the cornfield.

Forty kids showed up to that first clinic — the first players in what is now a thriving program called Because Baseball.

Every trip since, the numbers have grown. Now there are Egyptian kids turning double plays in the shadow of the pyramids. The next Ozzie Smith? Why not.

Field of Dreams told us baseball is about memory, magic, and second chances. Gouldin just proved it’s also a bridge — from Iowa to Cairo, from imagination to reality.

And honestly? This one’s gonna make for a hell of a movie someday.