SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After As the Giants and A's meet for their first series of the season and Barry Zito returns to his former stomping grounds, let's took a look at the games played on Ascension Day,
SF News A's Anatomy: The Overrated Stat of "W" “...the game is still wins and losses. The Pirates led the league in ERA in 1989 or around there. They finished last. I guarantee you those pitchers would have rather had wins. You
SF News Now That Didn't Go Well Here's the thing about Opening Day-- it's like Christmas Day for baseball fans. You wake up and get to unwrap the shiny new pitcher, shiny new manager, and shiny new lineup. And this
SF News A-Rod a Giant? Sure, Why Not? Essentially, this is all happening because Rodriguez has an opt-out clause in his contract. That means that even though he still has years left in his ten-year contract, he's allowed to say sayonara
SF News Breaking Up is the New Black (and Orange) With Gavin Newsom out of town, it's good to know the ladies of SF are this much closer to stalking Barry Zito. Unless he starts taking after his father, Joe Zito, anytime soon:
SF News Surf's Almost Up Anyways, this Saturday there will be the official opening cermony even if it's not surf time yet. Attending will be all the surfers who hope to take part in the surf contest whenever
SF News The Other Barry First, the dets-- the deal is for 7 years at $126 million (which breaks down to about, and yes we had to break out a calculator for this, 18 million per year). It's
SF News Not Signed Yet You know what hasn't been done yet? Barry Bonds' contract. In fact, while everyone is saying it's a done deal, it's not quite done, meaning that the i's haven't been dotted and the
SF News Barry's Back Well, Barry's ho'ing it up in front of other teams and having a little macking session with the Cards paid off-- Barry signed with the Giants or will according to MLB.com. The
SF News Ex-A's Pitcher Killed in Plane Accident Lidle was on the team for only two years, in 2001 and 2002 but was a key component of those A's teams. In fact, we remembered him as a pretty good pitcher and
SF News A’s v. Tigers, Game One: Shock & Awe And give the Tigers massive credit for exploiting the A's inadequacies. When a guy can't throw strikes, one needs to pounce with immediacy on 2 and 0 or 3 and 1 pitches. Brandon
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 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 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: Esteban! Just like we said at the end of the 2005 season: the A's need pitching in '06. On Monday, Billy Beane surprised baseball insiders by putting on shoes with laces and signing free
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The A's . . . Lose? The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and
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: The Cruelest Month The anemic run production—3 shutouts and an AL-worst 70 runs scored in 19 games—has caused some A’s fans to push the panic button, and frankly it doesn’t have SFist
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 It's Opening Day! Even so, the other teams in Major League baseball will play 162 games this year. That includes your Oakland Athletics, now Lewis Wolff's and Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics as well. (Try to share.
