September 2011 Archives

Today's press conference was a classic combo of inscrutable syntax, inappropriately harsh assessments, and hints of threat. Based on my reading of the Sabeanic tea leaves, this is the lineup Bruce Bochy will write onto his card on Opening Day...
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The brass is heading into meetings, but first they spent a little quality time this morning with reporters to break down the 2011 season and the off-season to come. I'll have my own post-mortem of the post-mortem later today, but...
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Final series of the regular season, the Giants and Rockies battling down to the wire for the division just as everyone predicted, and the Giants smother the Colorados, not with their co-aces, the skate rat and the old soul, but...
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As I type this, September call-ups Brett Pill and Justin Christian are nearly beating the Dodgers on their own tonight. Each has three hits, and they've combined for five RBIs. (The other secret weapons are Mark DeRosa, two singles, two...
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Eight and counting, though nothing cools hot bats faster than a day off and a Kershaw sandwich. Let's hope the Giants can get their June-vintage small ball miracle machine revved up Tuesday night, because they're more likely to hit negative-four...
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In Spanish, pumpkin is calabaza. I think of calabazas every time I see Andres Torres these days, because I'm worried that the clock has struck midnight, the slipper has fallen off, and the fairy tale is over.  The Giants have...
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Photos courtesy Flickr users Kevin Dooley and Salim Virji via Creative Commons licenses....
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Just back from an afternoon squirreled away at work, then dinner, over which I heard in passing that the Giants swept the Padres -- yay! -- and now this: Bill Neukom is being forced out as Giants' managing general partner....
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Before we get into today's blather, I want to point you all to a guest post written last month that I just now noticed, on my own site, no less. Those of you out there with two kids, one brand...
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Wounded warriors vs. The Silly Franchise.  ...
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Thinking back on what went wrong...I wrote this on January 6: The Diamondbacks have a new GM, Kevin Towers, who in San Diego often kept the Padres in contention despite a low payroll and unenthusiastic fanbase. He will rebuild the...
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Congratulations, Brett Pill. Home run in your first major league at-bat. Awesome. But I'm baiting and switching; I want to talk about Carlos Beltran, who went 3 for 4 today with a walk and three RBI, and a beautiful slide...
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Monday Night Football in the 1970s. Ahh yeah. How-ard Co-sell. The Steve Garveyish Frank Gifford. And Don Meredith, the ex-quarterback with one eye on the sideline talent, if you know what I mean. Those were the days when announcers without...
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Easy to say that Aaron Rowand will not be many people's favorite Giant. As fast as our pop-culture cycles spin, I'm having a hard time imagining the retro-coolness of a "ROWAND 33" jersey in the year 2019. Then again, I...
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