February 2005 Archives

In a shocking admission from a type of person who rarely admits being wrong, Padres GM Kevin Towers tells ESPN that he never addressed Ken Caminiti's suspected steroid use because Caminiti's home runs were good for the club. As far...
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Jose Canseco revealed that the ghost writer for his tell-all Juiced is Steve Kettmann, former Chronicle sports reporter who covered the A's. Interesting. Kettmann recently wrote in San Francisco magazine about the Chronicle's pursuit of the steroids scandal. The long,...
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UPDATE: I missed this one: ESPN's Jerry Crasnick has a thoughtful and rather sympathetic piece on Bonds (subscription req'd). ***** A couple days after Barry Bonds's much-discussed press conference during which he called the media "liars," Giants' owner Peter Magowan...
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The Baseball Analyst, a b-spankin' new site founded by two All-Baseball veterans, has a great three-part series on favorite ball players. A wide swath of contributors, from bloggers to national media stars, pitched in with reminiscences of childhood heroes. Make...
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Barry Bonds came to camp yesterday and had a friendly chat with the media. Just in case you're like Barry and assume reporters are liars and news stories are no better than re-runs of Sanford and Son, here's the raw...
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Love him or hate him (I've done both at various times in my life), every writer should at least know him. From Tokyo, Malo Wire correspondent Morse-san weighs in with this tidbit from Thompson's "Hey Rube": "Pitchers, as a group,...
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Perhaps between now and April 5, Brian Sabean will convince Chuck LaMar that Kirk Rueter is the perfect fit for Tropicana Field and will be a wise mentor to the young lefty Scott Kazmir -- all for the low, low...
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As I failed to mention a couple weeks ago, it would be foolish, while attempting a comprehensive evaluation of Brian Sabean's track record, to try to duplicate the analysis of the Giants' farm system and development philosophy that others perform...
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Veteran comedian, Christopher Guest-mate and Simpsons voice-master Harry Shearer must be licking his lips. Shearer's weekly radio program, Le Show, has a regular feature called "Apologies of the Week," and there's a lot of fodder for him to fod these...
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I got an e-mail a few weeks ago from Josh, a fellow Giants blogger, asking about this old-man's league Elbo and I play in. My team, the 28-and-over White Sox, lost a few players over the winter so I asked...
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Felipe Alou let loose some info at yesterday's baseball luncheon that clarifies the Giants' roster makeup. First, Alou told reporters that the lineup will almost certainly be 2b Durham ss Vizquel 1b Snow/Feliz lf Bonds rf Alou 3b Alfonzo cf...
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If every ballpark had an organ as funky as yours, I'd go to 162 games a year....
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Every so often in the Giants blog world someone floats the idea of renaming SBC as Mays Park, or Mays Field, or Mays Patch o' Grass. Now there's a blog that bangs the drum 24 hours a day. Not much...
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The O-Trib's Andrew Baggarly got a nice scoop yesterday that the Giants had quietly extended Brian Sabean's contract through 2006 -- or perhaps beyond. The brass is being obfuscatory: "He is under contract beyond '05," Larry Baer told Baggarly. "He...
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Old friend Jose Cruz, Jr. just got traded to the Az-Backs to take over center field. Jeromy Burnitz is taking $5 million to patrol the Friendly Confines. Those moves remove one team, Arizona, that's been begging for help in center;...
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There's been much recent debate in my comment boxes about Sabean's track record, with some consensus that the early years of his tenure have been much more successful than the more recent years. Josh From Hollywood also takes some time...
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this just over the wires: Baseball legend Yogi Berra is suing Turner Broadcasting System for $10 million after his name appeared in the company's advertisements for "Sex and the City" re-runs. The former New York Yankees player, 79, was furious...
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