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Giants Add Another Alou and Look Real Old Doing It

The Giants, who just love their history, are getting ready to sign manager Felipe Alou's son Moises to a two year deal worth something like thirteen or fourteen million bucks, making

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The Essefficist, Rabbi, Leaves, End. Huh?

The Essefficist apologizes for the unexcused absence last week, but we don't recall getting any threatening letters (or any lonely ones, for that matter), so we're over it already.

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Bay Blogger Thursday (Night)

Links to Giants blogs pop up once in a while on SFist. Have you ever looked at them? If you have, hopefully you got to Waiting for Boof, where you'll find

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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

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The Giants Add a Good Strong Armando

First thing is, you gotta understand that at least one SFist writer obsesses over the Giants to a damned near unhealthy point and scours the internet on a fairly regular (constant?) basis looking

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One Fewer Car with the Essefficist

I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! Our

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The Essefficist: So Strong <i>and</i> So Bad?

Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, gentle reader. Our first question this week comes from our main man Sam in Concord: Um... Shim-Sham Sam... I think you sent this

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The Giants have a Really Good Left Fielder

Not to hit you over the head too much with Giants news in the middle of November, but it seems worthwhile to note that Barry Bonds has been named National League Most Valuable

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Short Bread

In their first foray into this year's gi-normous free agent market, the Giants signed longtime Cleveland shortstop Omar Vizquel to a three year, $12.25 million deal yesterday. It seems

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In the Eye of the Beholder

Criticism is a funny thing. One person loves a piece of art and another hates it. Happens all the time. But today there's a particularly delicious example of this phenomenon to

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A Classy Move at the Chron

Did you notice that article on the front page of the Food section of today's ? There's a big picture, showing a snazzy santoku hollow-edge knife on a green

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Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist

First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says

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Warriors... Come Out to Play-ay!

Remember when we told you we were going to see the Warriors on opening night? Well we did, and they lost, which wasn't that surprising, since, you know, it was the

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At Least We Have the Warriors

While all may to be lost here in the Bay Area, at least we can all take solace in the fact that the Golden State Warriors are opening their season tonight at the

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The Essefficist Votes

It's election day Q & A. Whoo hoo! First, let's hear from loyal reader Redd Harrington: Kerry! We love that guy! Thanks, Redd. You're a trooper. And

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Last Minute Activism

What are you up to in the next five days? If you've got some spare time and you're itching to do something worthwhile, maybe you should get yourself hooked

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Why, if it Isn't Your Favorite Question and Answer Column, the Essefficist!

It's politics week around SFist, so we here at the Essefficist thought we'd do our civic duty by chipping in with answers to political questions we received about one

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The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine

Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may not

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High Falooting with SFist

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, at 401 Van Ness, is holding Commission 04, its third annual benefit auction and limited edition art collection release party tonight. SFist is going and thinks you

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All Tied Up With the Essefficist

You may recall from our post on Tuesday that the Essefficist is working on answering our colleague Rita's question as to how the Power Exchange works. While we still haven'

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Tit for Tat with the Essefficist

Tuesday is here again, and so is the Essefficist, but only to tease and titillate you, dear reader. Every once in a while it takes a little longer than we'd like

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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

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Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist

Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question

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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

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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