Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Looking Back On The Giants' History Against D.C. The Washington Nationals were born in 2005, and for just the second time, they have made it to the post-season. They will host our San Francisco Giants for Game 1 of the NLDS
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Bumgarner Is A God It was a do-or-die game. The Giants did and lived; the Pirates got done and died. And Madison Bumgarner is a bad, bad man. Actually is Madison a man? That would mean he
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Giants Face Pirates In Wild Card Showdown Tonight, And They Will Win Today, the San Francisco Giants play the Pittsburgh Pirates in, for all intents and purposes, the 163rd game of the season, a game we were once denied. After playing their 161st game on
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Wild Cards And Willie McCovey A few days ago, the Los Angeles Bums punched their ticket to the playoffs. Just saying that makes me want to brush my teeth with soap. I hate those Dodgers. The Giants, meanwhile,
Arts & Entertainment Tim Lincecum Might Never Return To Form And That's Okay Tim Lincecum was the face of the Giants franchise. He defined the Giants in the post-Barry Bonds era. He was young, talented, fiery, and he was a winner. Was. Now, Tim Lincecum has
Arts & Entertainment The Giants Five-Game Losing Streak: We Blame The Weather Since the All-Star break, the Giants hit the road and have gone 5-1 and reclaimed first-place in the NL West! No, wait, that was last week. Crap. It's this oppressive weather. What is
Arts & Entertainment An Unapologetic Rant About Why We Still Love Barry Bonds The greatest baseball player that any of us ever saw turned 50 yesterday. Happy belated birthday, Barry Bonds! People HATE Barry. Loathe him. Even in San Francisco! But then there are those of
Arts & Entertainment The All-Star Game Doesn't Count, But We Love It Anyway Real baseball resumes on Friday, unless for some inexplicable reason you count the All-Star Game, in which case, it resumes tonight. How should we feel about the All-Star Game? On the one hand,
Arts & Entertainment Giants Vs. A's Bay Bridge World Series Looking Unlikely, Sadly There was once a time when there was a National League and there was an American League. There was a time when never the twain did meet—until it mattered. Back in those
SF News The Giants' June Swoon Is Almost Over: What's Next? So how about the World Cup! So far, it's been a jolly good show, that. Messi, Benzema, Neymar, Van Persie, Dempsey, and even Rooney found the net. And hopefully you've been so enthralled
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Best Team In Baseball For the most of this still young season, it was a mere curiosity. A statistical aberration that would surely revert to the mean. Eventually, it may well do just that, but for now
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Having A Ruben Rivera Kind Of Day There are those days where nothing, and I mean nothing, goes right. You wake up on Monday morning and realize that the laundry you skipped for the past two weeks and absolutely NEEDED
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Here's To Another Even-Numbered Year Last season, the Braves, the Pirates, and the Bums were three of the four National League post-season teams. The Giants just spent the last 10 days visiting each of them, reminding them that
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Perched Atop The NL West Panda and Pence have two home runs each. Brandon Belt hit five home runs in the first eight games and two in the last 24. Matt Cain has not recorded a single, solitary
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Coach Mark Jackson Fired Well, they did it. They fired Mark Jackson. For months now, there have been rumors of discontent, dislike, and even spying and sabotage within the Golden State Warriors brass. Joe Lacob, the owner
Arts & Entertainment Dub Sack: Alas, Warriors Lose 126-121 This series began as the birth of the newest NorCal/SoCal rivalry, was rudely interrupted by the racist ramblings of a repulsive reptile, and ultimately delivered the inevitable Game 7 everyone wanted. For
Arts & Entertainment Dub Sack: Warriors Face Clippers One More Time This season, the Warriors and Clippers have faced off 10 times. Each team won five and lost five. Tomorrow, they'll play one last game. Last night, at Roaracle Arena, the Golden State Warriors
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Back To The Game As far as historic days go in the world that is the National Basketball Association, yesterday was a big one. In my lifetime, yesterday's announcement by NBA commissioner Adam Silver that L.A.
Arts & Entertainment Dub Sack: The Clippers, Distracted And Defeated By Saturday, most of us had heard or read about the audio recording, allegedly of Clippers' owner Donald Sterling, and the verbal vomit that spewed forth from his orifice into the national discussion.
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Clippers Edge Warriors Don't blame the refs. No matter how blind the refs were at the most critical plays in the final moments, teams have the entire game to remove the referees from the equation. The
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Sandoval Under Review All droughts eventually come to an end. For California, that end will probably come with this year's expected little boy, El Niño. For the Giants, it ended last night in the Rocky Mountains.
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Warriors vs. Clippers Game 2 Now where did I place that panic button? For most of us, the first quarter of Monday night's Warriors v. Clippers playoff game was filled with enthusiastic denial. It ended 31-20, Clippers. The
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Time To Take Down Another L.A. Team The A's just took two of three from the L.A.-ish Anaheim Angels. The Giants secured their second straight series win over the L.A. Dodgers, overtook them for 1st place, and
SF News The Dub Sack: First, The Good News... For the first time since the 1993/1994 season, the Golden State Warriors have won 50 games! And for the first time since the 90/91 and 91/92 seasons, the Dubs punched
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Alas, We Should All Be At Today's Game Last Week: at Arizona (WON) at Arizona (lost) at Arizona (WON) at Arizona (WON) at L.A. Bums (WON) at L.A. Bums (WON) at L.A. Bums (lost) This Week: Tue: Diamondbacks
