SF News A's Brand Baseball: Some Of Our Best Friends Are From Boston The A's have lost 8 games in a row, and 11 of their last 12. The A's are 9 games below .500. The A's have been outscored, in 2005, by every team in
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Fools in the Rain 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
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Good Seats Still Available We hope the crowds will start doing the same as nights at the Coliseum get warmer, as much as we enjoyed having the stadium to ourselves (announced attendance: 15,860). It's great baseball,
SF News Back To Oakland The promising new and/or young players have so far delivered upon their, uh, promise: Nick Swisher hit two home runs against the Orioles on Wednesday, Danny Haren struck out six in six
SF News Your 2005 San Francisco Giants Pitchers and catchers reported to the San Francisco Giants' spring training facility in Scottsdale, Arizona last week and position players showed up yesterday. Since every other baseball fan in town with a keyboard
SF News Welcome to Papago Park: A's Preview Oakland A's fans everywhere should be forgiven for the fit they threw on December 18, 2004. Just two days after trading Tim Hudson to Atlanta for three guys we'd never heard of, the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Blalock Jason Blalock combined inspiration from an old SFist fav, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and his shock and awe-induced state from encountering the Raider Nation, and turned this all into art. Jason's film Oakland
SF News This Old House As we said, there's nothing legitimately wrong in what the Giants are doing, and as die-hard supporters of the Orange & Black we're okay with the Giants searching through the sofas looking for
SF News Farewell, Huddy In breaking news, Billy Beane has shipped the Oakland A's ace, Tim Hudson, to the Atlanta Braves for three young players who, well, won't cost so much. From Atlanta's point of view, we
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
SF News More Baseball? It should be noted that the Giants, as indicated yesterday, have indeed locked up Armando Benitez to a three year deal. Also, the A's recieved catcher Jason Kendall in a trade with the
SF News Let's Play BALCO! For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking,
Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the
SF News Dodger Blues Although, after getting crushed 8-3 by the Cardinals yesterday, the Los Angeles Dodgers haven't actually won a post-season game since beating the A's in the 1988 World Series, giving them an unmitigated sixteen
SF News Monday Morning Crow-eater What an ignominious weekend for Bay Area baseball. Saturday, 2 October 2004 will long be remembered as a dark day for Northern California baseball fans. After a big win over LA on Friday
SF News Go Team! 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
SF News Athletics Seesaw Into Tie With Angels Cries of "Chokeland" echoed forlornly off the empty facade of Mt. Davis as the A's lost to the hopeless Mariners four to two last night. Even though it was two dollar Wednesday, and
SF News Heart Attack and Nine Five games left, three back of the Dodgers, tied with the Cubs, a half game up on the Astros, and Milton Bradley losing his mind in LA. Does that say it all? Not
SF News One-for-Three is Okay in Hitting, But Not in Series It was a big weekend for Bay Area baseball but things didn't go as well as the local teams had hoped against their division rivals from the Southland. (Nor for SFist in the
SF News The 700 Club Whether you like Barry Bonds or not as a person, you have to respect him (actually, be in awe of him) as a ballplayer. And since you probably don't ever have to have
SF News Wine Snobs and Baseball? But what really cut was the photo included in the story, that of your typical effete wine-drinking Yuppie couple watching a Giants' game from tony box seats (with pictures of boats in the
SF News Oye, Futbol! Things aren't looking good for professional sports in San Jose. It seems that because of dismal attendance and the lack of a new stadium, the Anschutz Group is looking to sell the San