A few notes on the Winn trade: * Of course Brian Sabean knows this team sucks, and even if it were to acquire Curt Schilling's bloody sock and win an emotional NL West race, it would get blown out of... # continue reading
ESPN's Uniwatch column reports that an unnamed team is thinking about switching back to the powder-blue road uniform. A must-read if you can't get enough of old baseball threads. The piece makes fun of the dreaded '70s, but in a... # continue reading
Those were Jon Miller's post-game words in response to this: *Jason Ellison, leading off the game with a walk then stumbling as he tried to steal second. If you get a bad jump, stop and go back. Ellison did not.... # continue reading
This final stretch of games before Sunday's trading deadline is supposed to be make-or-break, to show the Giants' fence-sitting brass whether the team can steal the division from the Padres the way bloody, ragged soldiers steal wallets, chains and gold... # continue reading
Trade rumor buried at the bottom of Ken Rosenthal's latest TSN column: The Giants apparently were willing to trade Class AA righthander Merkin Valdez for Rockies righthander Jason Jennings, but the Rockies balked at the deal. "If he stays a... # continue reading
Exhibit #1: - We blow a one-out, man-on-third scoring situation in the first inning, but with two outs, we hit back to back home runs. - You blow a bases loaded, one-out situation in the first inning, and with two... # continue reading
Yesterday's Baseball Prospectus featured an interesting dissection of a recent Yankees-Indians game, with Randy Johnson squaring off against Jake Westbrook. Power pitcher vs. sinkerballer. Author Jonah Keri had a notable little riff on the influence of luck on a major... # continue reading
What's Clark Kent without a telephone booth? What is a liquor if it ain't 80 proof? What are the youth if they ain't rebellin? What's Ralph Cramden, if he ain't yellin' at Ed Norton, what is coke snortin'? What is... # continue reading
The Chron yesterday took a long hard look at the Giants' ticket sales and, in general, team finances. There's a lot to chew on in this long piece. For example: Larry Baer says the Giants have to sell out every... # continue reading
I'll be deep in the Northern Calif. outback this weekend with only a faint signal coming over the transistor, but I'll give a standing-O to Robb Nen, whom the Giants are thanking in a pre-game ceremony Saturday. Except for 1999,... # continue reading
"Why do you hate Mike Matheny so much?" I got that question a couple weeks ago from the A-2-The-B, a.k.a. Benito's Widow. I laid out my case: atrocious hitting to complement overrated defense and $10 million that could have been... # continue reading
Eighty one up, eighty one down -- and that's just the number of minor-league transactions the Giants have made this year. Or so it seems. The Fresno-Norwich-San Fran shuttle should be absorbed into Strategic Air Command, which knows a thing... # continue reading
