• "Giants Lose to Pirates in Battle of Slumping Teams" is just about the most depressing headline you'll read this morning. Pittsburgh swooped out of a 10-game losing streak to squelch the rally we thought Tim Lincecum started up. Final score 5-0 Pittsburgh. Ouch. [CBS5]

• Please Touch Community Garden will be opening it's gates to the public at Civic Center any day now. Touching is, of course, encouraged. [TheTender]

• If Lee wins the Mayor's seat and Mirkarimi wins the Sheriff's race and redistricting works out just right... then Chris Daly will run for District 5 Supervisor. We suppose that falls under the whole "I will haunt you" thing. [FCJ]

• Nationally read fashion blog hates these San Francisco-made disco pants. Because they hate small-to-medium sized businesses, probably. [Refinery29]

• Meet the 72-year-old man who was ejected from Ed Lee's paperwork filing event yesterday. (When you put it like that is sounds pretty mundane, doesn't it?) He has ties to Chris Daly and the just-come-up-with-it "Lie, Ed, Lie" anti-campaign, naturally. [BCN/Appeal]

• Wondering what happened to all the Martha Brothers Coffee outlets? No, they weren't bought out by Cumaica, they just launched another brand to confuse you. The coffee remains the same. [Grubstreet]