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Sharks 3 Predators 2- SFist did something we haven't done in a long time-- watched a hockey game. Well, the last period at least. For those who've never watched playoff hockey, it's great fun. The sport is already pretty intense with it's speed and occasional bouts of violence and the intensity is turned up several notches during the playoffs. Especially when one is facing elimination. Other than a minute of action, when the Predators scored both of their goals, the Sharks won this game rather handily. Everytime the Predators tried to set up for a shot on goal, somebody on the Sharks threw their body at somebody else , keeping the Predators from getting much in the way of a shot. At one point, the Sharkies were short-handed in a 4-3 situation and once again, the Predators couldn't get anything going. Just great defense. more ›

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-Barry B arrives in camp and does his annual State of The Barry speech, always an entertaining occasion. This time, however, he didn't drag his son into it or spend the entire time attacking the press, but instead, dared everyone to investigate him. Ray Ratto yawns. more ›

-Warriors get 40 in the first quarter, then shoot the lights out in a 131-105 win at home. Mark Purdy isn't going to jump on the Warriors bandwagon just yet. more ›

Shards of what remain of Barry Zito and the rest of Oakland A's pitching staff are still being recovered after yesterday's 14-0 threshing at the hands of the Texas Rangers. We're certain the Arlington faithful are downright giddy about their latent power display, as well they should be. This beating reminded everyone that there is-indeed--a real pennant race fomenting in the AL West. However, the Rangers should take a very hard look at the all-encompassing big picture scoreboard-the Athletics won that series by dominating the small things. And they beat Texas by going toe-to-toe with one of the best offenses in the American League. Moreover, the real battle was won in the trenches-through superior bullpen action, sans Joe Kennedy, Scott Sauerbeck and the rest of the DL boys, a smothering defense and timely hitting from Jay Payton, not through caveman-like hacking at off-speed pitches that Ranger batters have mastered. more ›

The All-Star break, which ends when games start today, is a time for the players to give back to the fans (or some such nonsense). It's also a time for baseball writers to fill inches with reflections on the half-season in the books, and with hopes and dreams, if not predictions, for the half-season that arrives in Oakland Thursday night. The first half ended on a high note for the A's, who swept a three-game series against the White Sox and ran their record over .500. And here's the thing about the streak that brought the A's from 17-32 on May 29 to 44-43 on: It coincided, more or less, with Rich Harden's, Nick Swisher's and Bobby Crosby's returns from the disabled list, and the team's being able to field its ideal lineup. In other words, we have reason to believe that the A's are, when healthy, this good. more ›

The Giants and the Mariners are bad this year. Here at A's Brand Baseball, we take no special pleasure in writing that, nor do we do so in order to taunt the other baseball fans and writers on SFist. (OK, maybe a little of the latter.) Rather, we simply want to point out that when the A's won nine of ten games against those two sorry-a$$ teams at the end of June, it didn't necessarily mean much. The home nine continued its hot streak, though, and took two out of three at home from the Chicago White Sox, who still carry the best record in the majors. After Tuesday night's eleven-inning victory over the Blue Jays in Toronto, the A's find themselves with forty-one wins and forty-one losses. more ›

Baseball is, like, so weird. A 6-game homestand that included Barry Zito’s first win since last July, Rich Harden’s first major league complete game and the catch of Eric Byrnes's life all sounds good, and the A’s got exactly that this week but still managed to drop 4 of those 6 to Seattle and Texas. This week alone, they went from Z’s W over Seattle in front of 30,634 fans on the kind of Sunday afternoon that the first day of May is all about to a rain-shortened 7-16 loss to Texas Wednesday in front of half that many. more ›

Previously, on SFist: Giants fans got to attend a home opener. On Monday night in Oakland, it was Kirk Saarloos (1-1, 5.59 and still looking like a solid fifth starter) giving up six runs against the Toronto Blue Jays. Going into the game, the A's sat at three wins and three losses after series against Baltimore and Tampa Bay, and we'll take that. For now. more ›

SFist brings you yesterday's baseball madness in a nutshell or two: with only three games left this weekend to finish the season, the Giants, Dodgers and Athletics all won, the Angels lost, and the Astros didn't play, leaving the Giants, who are playing the dreaded Dodgers this weekend, three games back of Los Angeles in the NL West and tied with the Astros in the Wild Card race, and the A's, who are playing the abominable Angels this weekend, tied with Anaheim in the AL West. Can you imagine a more sickeningly exciting scenario for a Bay Area baseball fan? And about yesterday's games: young Jerome Williams was huge for the Giants and young Bobby Crosby was huge for the A's. more ›

A's remain tied with Angels after trading wins with Seattle. more ›