January 2011 Archives

One quick nonmusical note: Join me in congratulating reader Jeremy on his new daughter, Aubrey. Yep. She'll soon be boasting of being the best athlete on the team. More details and an adorable photo in Jeremy's Guest Post. One's ability...
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...the Ancient Mariners. Many hijinks ensue:  ...
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Readers of the Internet's fine print will know the Giants have invited veteran reliever Mark Kroon to spring camp. He's a veteran, that is, if you count his non-MLB experience, because he's only pitched in 26 major league games, with...
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A full season after my redesign, I'm not sure you all know your way around the site. Here's a refresher: - You can add your own guest posts. Look to your right ------> Guest Posts! Click, sign up, and go...
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Sit down, kids. I have a story to tell. There once was a big baseball star in a funky little media market who turned a few successful years in his twenties into an industry-shaking seven year, $126 million contract. Things...
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The thought of Jeff Suppan pitching for the Giants makes me a little sad, because it means someone else much better has gotten injured. But a stat mentioned in the above-linked article from Baggs made me think Suppan's chances of...
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Before we start, let me share with you the sweetest words I have read all week: "While the Dodgers have a nice idea in trying to use a platoon in left field, by populating it with Jay Gibbons and Marcus...
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Foxy Ken Rosenthal tweets that Cody Ross and the Giants have avoided arbitration with a one-year, $6.3 M contract. If true, that's a 42% raise from his 2010 salary of $4.45 M. Man, would I love a 42% raise for...
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According to Chris Haft's latest article on the Giants' Web site, Brandon Belt...."...has a better swing than I did" (Will Clark)." ...(is) like Barry Bonds...when the ball is two inches off the plate, he's not going to swing at it"...
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Continued from yesterday....The Los Angeles Dodgers2010 record: 80-82 (4th place)2011 Estimated payroll: $101 millionStrong work, Agent Ned. For a while you had us worried you were playing a dangerous double game: trading Milton Bradley for Andre Ethier, trading Andy LaRoche...
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The holidays are behind us, the calendar has flipped, and spring training starts in less than 60 days. It's time to assess the Giants' ability to two-peat, as we like to say in the sporting world. Their first and main...
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Somehow I've missed the phenomenon of one-time Padre and Blue Jay Dirk Hayhurst's best-selling book "The Bullpen Gospels," plugged from here to high heaven as one of the best baseball books ever. (Keith Olbermann: "That's no hyperbole.")I haven't read it...
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I'm not a resolutions kind of guy. Promises made on January 1 shouldn't hold more water than those made any other time of year. But 2010 was the kind of year to make a fella like me think that a...
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