Here's todays sports news more ›

Here's todays sports news more ›

Here's todays sports news more ›

Royals 2 A's 1- So who is this Jack Cust and where the hell did he come from? He's from New Jersey and was drafted in '97 by the Dbacks. He then went from Arizona to Colorado to Baltimore and to San Diego and his only major accomplishment in the bigs up until this past week was tripping on the basepaths during a rundown when he was on the Orioles. more ›

Here's todays sports news more ›

here's todays sports news more ›

The A's might have wrapped up their playoff spot days ago, but the big question of who they would play was still up in the air. Finally, this afternoon, the A's got their opponent, the Minnesota Twins. more ›

The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and LF Eric Byrnes, and by our least favorite, overrated, lying, cheating, limp-dicked 1B/DH Rafael Palmeiro. They suffered a bad inning from Barry Zito, who sustained his first loss since June 17, on Monday, a horrible call by first-base umpire Chris Guccione and a 9th-inning rally that wasn't on Tuesday, and a bad outing by Danny Haren on Wednesday. They scored nine runs in four games. more ›

Nothing seems to sum up the current state of the Giants than a game SFist attended a week and a half ago. Up 8-7 in the 9th against the Washington Nats, the Giants went to their closer and out of the bullpen came one Jeremy Accardo. As in who? The kid pitched well in AA ball and was said to throw strikes, so Felipe threw him out there to see what would happen. What the hell? It didn't quite work out that well but it neatly summarizes the Giants this season-- what the hell? Felipe has always managed like a mad scientist, throwing anything and everything out there to see what works and this season he's managing like Dr. Frankenstein on a speedball. Bringing up some AA kid to audition for a closer role is something that a team does in Spring Training or to some doomed doormat like the Royals, not to a team that began the season with playoff aspirations. Yet because of all the injuries, all the head-scratching head-cases, and just plain ole ineffectiveness, Felipe can do nothing but throw everyone including the Kitchen Sink out there (Sink, by the way, is the third rated prospect in the Giants' farm system according to Baseball America). more ›