Here's todays sports news...

Here's todays sports news...

Let's talk about rebuilding in honor of Matt Cain actually winning a game... ...

Here's todays sports news...

Here's todays sports news...

Barry didn't play last night due to his legs being shot from playing Tuesday's 13 inning birthday game, thus disappointing a sold out stadium, Bud Selig, and scores of press from around the world who instead got stuck watching a very good pitching duel and Noah Lowry solidifying his role of staff ace. Maybe Bud Selig should institute some sort of "best interest of baseball" rule saying that if Barry isn't going to play, the Giants should announce it first thing in the morning so fans know they don't have to go, Bud can have a nice night out in the town, and all the press hordes can either go home or just hang out in the press booth and get drunk....

With the Giants stumbling ever downward towards the midpoint of the season, we decided to check in with El Lefty Malo and McCovey Chronicles to get their opinion on a season that is rapidly approaching the point where "are you ready for some football?" will be the motto of the second half of the season....

Here's todays sports news...

After games like last night, Sports Talk radio can kind of be essential listening. Misery loves company after all and there's a lot of misery out there in Giants Land. Yes, the baseball season is 162 games so one loss don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world but sometimes one game means more than others. Like last night's game. ...

To get you psyched for tonight's game, here's some news on the Warriors front: -Here are Ten Reasons why you should jump on the Warriors bandwagon. -Baron Davis is the happiest guy alive. -The Betting Fool tells everyone to calm the f---- down. -Is this series a grudge match between Nellie and Cuban? Or are they one, but not the same? -Will the Mavs continue to go small or give it to Nowitzky? -Nellie, with......

Here's todays wrap up of the sports news...

Here's todays wrap up of the news...

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Here's todays daily sports roundup...

Yesterday, we tackled the issue of what to expect of this year's team. Today, we'll take a look at whether we should be happy with the expectations of this year's team. ...

What to make of this year's Giants? We have no clue. No Giants team has been this much of an enigma since maybe 2003. After last year's soul crushing of a season, Giants management vowed to get younger and to change things up. They didn't. In fact, you could describe this season as the same but different. There is a new manager, a new corner infield, a new catcher and centerfielder but the team still......

-Both Brady Quinn and JaMarcus Russell are hanging at the NFL Combine, something that will make Raiders fans perk up their ears. We don't know what's more overrated, the Combine or Brady Quinn. Anyways, it appears that JaMarcus is b-i-g. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? -It's put up or shut up time for Brian Sabaen and McCovey Chronicles tries to figure out which is which. -Saturday is, of course, Three......

-The Warriors get a big lead, lose a big lead, then regain a big lead as they beat the NY Knicks. Tim Kawakami thinks the Warriors need to tank the season by giving Patrick O’Bryant some playing time. ...

-The Warriors 2.0 won their first game of the season, beating the Nets on a last minute shot by Monta Ellis. They were actually down by about eleven with a little over four minutes to go and rallied to win. Nicely done. Was it the biggest win of the year?...

-If you want to feel old, consider this: it was twenty-five years ago to the day that the Niners won their first Super Bowl. To celebrate, the Chron reprints stories about the game and the reaction from 1982. They also have some Herb Caen goodness. And finally, they catch up with members of the '82 49ers and detail all of the physical problems they're facing these days as a result of playing football. ...

After a weekend in which it felt like we watched about 100 hours of football, all we can say is Bill Belichick has some major cojones and one can only wonder what Marty Schottenheimer did in a past life to deserve everything that has happened to him in the playoffs. ...

Okay, here's something that we've always wondered about in football-- why don’t coaches in the final minutes of a football let the other team score to get the ball back instead of letting the other team run down the clock and kick the game-winning field goal? Just look at the Eagles/Giants game. The Eagles were in easy field goal range with about two minutes to go and the Giants out of time outs. So the Eagles just ran the clock out and won the game with a last second field goal, something that was pretty much inevitable. So what if instead of doing what they did, the Giants let Westbrook run it in for a TD with a minute or so left so they could get the ball back? Wouldn’t that make more sense than hoping that some sort of fluke play occurs? If you were a coach, would you rather take your chances hoping that the team that's driving either screws up the field goal, fumbles, or gets backed up due to penalties or would you rather take a chance with your offense scoring again? ...

Sharks beat high-scoring Ducks, 4-3, with a tipped pass by Joe Thorton in the late, late third period. The victory snapped the Ducks five game winning streak and was only their fourth regulation loss of the season. Is their still room on the Sharks bandwagon?...

Well, Barry's ho'ing it up in front of other teams and having a little macking session with the Cards paid off-- Barry signed with the Giants or will according to MLB.com. The deal is one year for $16 million which we think pretty much empties the old Giants bank account for the year. Goodbye Barry Zito. Your 2007 Giants are like the 2006 Giants except worse. ...

So how did the Giants' hiring of Bruce Bochy go over with Giants fans? Well, does the word "meh" mean anything to you. It's not that people were upset (well, some people were) but most people just kind of gave it a shrug and said that it's not such a bad pick. Kind of like when you go out looking for a used car to buy and you dream of a sports car or a hybrid and you wind up doing what everyone else does-- buy a Honda. It's not very exciting and it's not very sexy but the car just plain ole works. ...

Well, that wasn't what we were hoping for. Yes, the Giants did indeed lose their first game of the big road trip, 8-6 to the Washington Nationals. We haven't seen a road trip start off so badly since a camping trip we took years ago in which on the first night of the trip, we hit a deer (true story. The deer, luckily, was only dazed). And after being in first place a mere seventy-two......

There's something almost symbolic about yesterday's big Giants trade of Edgardo Alfonzo for Steve Finley. Sabaen's trade for Fonzie way back in aught-three was the first big, head scratcher move that Sabaen ever made, the one that started the "has he gone nuts?" whispers. Now that somehow, inexplicably, Sabaen was able trade Edgardo to another team, a good one no less, people are starting to think that maybe he's got his groove thing going again....

And the Giants got their man. Monday it was announced that Matt Morris, formerly of the Cardinals, is now a member in proud standing of the Black & Orange. As we said earlier, Morris is the proto-typical Sabaen pick-up: a gritty veteran just beginning the downside of their career and coming off a few injury-laden down years. When he was good, which was several years ago, he was the anchor of a pretty good Cardinal pitching staff. In 2001, he won 22 games and is 101-62 with a 3.62 ERA over his career. He is also known as both a "gamer" and an inning eater. Considering the chinese fire drill that was last year's pitching staff, that's a good thing. Last year, however, he was 14-10 with a 4.11 ERA, but he was 10-2 with a 3.10 ERA before the All-Star break last season and 4-8 with a 5.32 ERA after it. That could either mean he lost his stuff and r'uh oh or it could also mean he was simply fatigued after having shoulder surgery at the end of the 2004 season. The Giants hope it was the later. ...