SF News Playoffs, Baby, Playoffs!!!!!! =Oakland finally snapped out of it and beat the Mariners 12-3 just as word filtered down the Angels lost 5-2. Your Magic Number? 0. As in "clinched." As in "playoffs!" Who the A's
SF News Stuck At Two After losing two in a row to the Angels, the A's had to be thinking that a three-game road swing through Seattle would cure their clinching blues. After all, they've won fifteen in
SF News Stepping Out With the A's Well, while stumbling around the web this morning, we finally stumbled upon some good stuff concerning our local lads. First, there's this not so nasty (actually rather cute) blind item about someone on
SF News What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Football Today Not that we watched a lot of football yesterday, but we saw that red haired woman in the Nissan commercial enough times to make us feel like we need to introduce her to
SF News Steroids, Again ESPN is also reporting Patrick Arnold, the man credited with developing THG is saying the very same thing about Barry. You know, we've softened a bit in our No Barry in '07 position.
SF News What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Baseball Today? Cardinals 34- Niners 27: Sometimes a loss can be a victory and this is one of those losses that looks like a victory. Except in the win column where it really counts. The
SF News Your Commute: BART and Caltrain Isn't everyone glad the Bay Bridge is reopened? Well, maybe not BART -- they're reporting a 13% increase in ridership over Labor Day weekend, including 10,200 riders who used the overnight service.
SF News Who Reads Yesterdays Sports Papers? First, onto baseball: The Giants are now on a three-game roll after taking two from the Cubbies and beating the Reds in ten innings Monday. Your Black & Orange hero? Shea Hillenbrand who
SF News Your Commute: No Bridge, Just Tunnel You know how everyone says San Francisco is a little bubble utopia isolated from the realities of the rest of the world? Well, you might as well embrace it this Labor Day, because
SF News Does Ken Macha Matter? And yet, we utter his name among baseball denizens and they shrug their shoulders and continue imbibing a cold, frosty one. Macha does little to capture the imagination of A's fans in general.
SF News Still in the Driver's Seat 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
SF News The A's Will Win the West Beane, like Brian Sabean of SF Giants hype, makes his bones when it counts most-- during the trade deadline. This year, the flutter of butterfly wings could be heard from the A's camp.
SF News Dear Giants It's over. Finished. Kapoot. As of this moment, we will no longer start to believe in you. Once again, for like the umpteenth and hundredth time, we started to think that you had
SF News The Second Coming of Crazy Crab In a promotion that worked way beyond anyone could have thought, the Giants held '80s night for last Friday night's game against the A's. They played 80's music, they busted out their old
SF News The Battle of the Bay Begins This weekend, inter-league play rears its ugly head as the Giants travel cross the Bay Bridge to take on the A's in Oakland. Shouldn't Gavin and Jerry be making bets on these things,
Arts & Entertainment There He Is, Mr. Hyphen Magazine We are totally fascinated by the phenomenon of the Asian-American fashion show. In college, the various Asian-American student groups would always throw some kind of runway-themed benefit, featuring the clothing of Armani Exchange,
SF News A's Fight! SFist A's fans' loss is our personal gain, as SFist Jake's brief hiatus gives us leave to post on yesterday's sixth-inning infield brawl at Anaheim! We love a good baseball fight. That's because
SF News The Niners Get A Head Now here is where things get interesting because that was the job supposedly manned by Stat Head Paraag Marathe. You know, the guy who was supposed to turn the Niners into the NFL's
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Opening Day 2006 You still the man, Rick . . . You still the man. A bold prediction from A's Brand Baseball: By the time "One Shining Moment" ends on Monday night, Barry Zito will have thrown the first
SF News SFist is Talking Baseball SFist Jackson: I'm predicting Oakland and New York in the ALCS this year, and am looking for the Phillies to take on the Cardinals in the NLCS. Oakland looks really strong this year,
SF News Springtime In February A large portion of Western literature doesn't make sense to California kids. Specifically, we don't get all those poems about springtime, because it just doesn't feel like that big a deal. This is
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Big If Frank Thomas has hit 448 home runs, and has hit .307/.427/.568, over his 16-year career. That's pretty impressive, but in the last 2 seasons, Frank Thomas has been mostly injured: he's
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
SF News So Long Rusty Just wondering, but how long will it be before we start seeing a "Rehab Rusty" movement? Also changing at Whatever The Hell It's Named Now Park is that Splash Landing will no longer
