San Francisco Giants players have a new gesture to celebrate hits this season, and there’s a growing consensus among fans that it’s a reference to an infamous gag from the team’s first San Francisco-era title-winning team. Giants fans sound convinced the gesture — where players swipe their hands down across their face, then mime a zipper shutting across their mouth — is a reference to “The Machine,” a gimp gear-wearing character that the Giants’ current hitting coach, Pat Burrell, brought to San... Read this story
