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We, as baseball fans, largely subsist on the hope for immediate gratification.  Knowing that each team, no matter how talented, faces an uphill battle to even make the playoffs, we still trot out the hackneyed saw “wait ’till next year”.  And in the end, should it really be any different?  In our real lives we […]

More than 25 years ago, at the start of 1982, Bay Area fans had no way of knowing they soon would witness two of the most memorable moments in sports history. Those images became partners in upper-case lore: Dwight Clark reaching halfway to the stars to make…

REMEMBER WHEN? Here are some other memorable Bay Area sports moments. Try to name the year in which each moment occurred (answers at bottom of this page): 1. Kirk Gibson homers off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of World Series (left) 2. Raiders beat Chargers on “…

Notes: Spring season tickets on sale

Thanks to ASG, Giants gave back more in ‘07

Mailbag: Price is not right for Giants

Via a rotoworld write-up of possible destinations for key trade-bait this offseason, an incredibly intriguing deal for the Giants has surfaced.  While everything really is speculation, these possible deals stated by the linked article leave the Giants victorious on most counts:

Noah Lowry/Brad Hennessey to Mariners for C Jeff Clement and OF Wladimir Balentien
Noah Lowry to […]

Raquel Aurilia launches pop career with ‘Finding My Way’

The 2008 bullpen takes form a little more with the 1-year deal to bring back Tyler Walker. Walker, who served as the Giants closer in 2005 after Armando Benitez went down with an injury, is back for ‘08 on a 1-year $750K deal. Walker was traded to the Devil Rays in 2006 but he went […]

This segment is part of a roundtable discussion I participated in with Grant, lefty
and Obsessive Giants Compulsive (probably the 3 best Giants blogs out there). I don’t know if the rest of it will see the light of day, since that is up to the other authors, but I found this part particularly interesting. […]

Reliever Tyler Walker, the San Francisco native who made a successful comeback from “Tommy John” elbow surgery with the Giants last season, said Thursday he and the team have reached a one-year, $750,000 agreement for 2008, when Walker is expected be a setup…

Giants manager Bruce Bochy was dead tired, having flown all day and all night from San Diego to France to start a voyage that most only dream of taking. He had just arrived at his hotel in Paris when his cell phone went “doodle-de-do.” Technology - what a…

In the most recent edition of the Giants’ mailbag, posted on the team’s official website on Monday, the following question was asked:
“Who will the Giants utilize as the ‘face’ of their organization now that Barry Bonds is gone?  Barry Zito?”
The response from beat writer Chris Haft:
“Zito’s as good a representative as any, and better than […]

Giants re-sign Walker, hire Kelly

It’s a good thing Alex Rodriguez came to his senses when he did. Now that federal officials have finally accused home run king Barry Bonds of lying about using steroids, the sooner somebody snatches his crown away the better. It needs to be done in the most…

Joe Nuxhall, the youngest major leaguer at age 15 and later a beloved broadcaster as “the ol’ left-hander” in Cincinnati, has died. He was 79. Nuxhall died Thursday night while hospitalized for treatment of pneumonia, the team said. He was awaiting surgery to…

As of yesterday, Barry Bonds was indicted for charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Because of his denial of steroid use under oath, Bonds could face up to 30 years of prison if found guilty. Any shred of of popularity outside of San Francisco will likely be obliterated, and entrance to the […]

For Flannery, music and baseball fit like a glove

Barry Bonds testified on Dec. 4, 2003, before a federal grand jury in San Francisco that was investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative’s distribution of steroids and other banned performance-enhancing drugs. He was questioned by federal prosecutors….

It’s too late for an asterisk. It’s never too late for the truth. Barry Bonds took the all-time home-run record this summer because no one could stop him, not the government, not Major League Baseball, not the fans at road games with their heated lungs and…