December 2010 Archives

ESPN Magazine is running a cover story on Buster Posey, written of course by Buster Olney. Not a bad piece. Here's my favorite anecdote, meant to show how quickly Posey learned the subtleties of being a big-league catcher: ...by the...
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This is the latest in a continuing irregular series of musical thoughts. As always, I'm eager to hear your recommendations. Unlike the Giants, I've only got four starters penciled in. I might find a fifth among the free-agent bargains at...
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A full year of Buster Posey. A full year of Cody Ross and Pat Burrell. Miguel Tejada, twice the age of Juan Uribe and a third of the cost. Brandon Belt in the organizational on-deck circle. All eyes on Andres...
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Here's the easy answer: (courtesy of Sports Illustrated)Freaks, geeks, beards, thongs, Machines, sad Pandas and, alas, once upon a time, Jazz Hands. There's familiarity bias, of course -- even Pirate fans find endearing eccentricities among their favorites -- but winning...
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ESPN's Jerry Crasnick multi-tweets today that the Giants "have discussed" trading Aaron Rowand to the Cubs for Kosuke Fukudome in a swap of bad contracts, but that the scenario is far-fetched seeing how Fukudome has one year ($13.5 M) left...
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You might have noticed I was gone for a bit. Now I'm down off the verdant mountain, shaking the beach sand out of my skivvies, and just about ready to rock and roll. A couple more days, and I'll be...
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The post-World Series love fest continues, Juan Uribe notwithstanding. As expected in tender news, most of our warm fuzzy smaller Giants are coming back -- or at least getting contracts of one sort or another.The team retained Cody Ross, Andres...
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I was not entirely shocked to see that Fangraphs kicked off its mini-analysis of the Miggy Tejada deal with....a Brian Sabean/Old Player joke. Snicker! Snicker! Old players! Sabean! Giants! LOL! Um...World Series title? Hello? I guess it doesn't matter. Now...
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Sounds like we're getting the band back together, Juan Uribe notwithstanding. He'll be playing sad harmonica alone in his hotel room one night next summer, and the thought will hit him: "I am such an idiota! What was I thinking?"...
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