SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series
misc New SFist Giants Contest Hey Giants fans, hate the Dodgers? Like, really, really, really hate the Dodgers? Wanna have some snarky yet juvenile fun at their expense? Hell, what else can you do considering they're in first
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Michelangelo Antonioni dies; Mick LaSalle suspects Eric Rohmer will fade to black next. [Chron blogs] -- Chronicle wanted Gonzalez in the mayoral race. Alas. [BeyondChron] -- A baseball trader "shocker" happened involving
Arts & Entertainment Bauer On LAist On Bauer? Food Flap! You know how sometimes we point out when an out-of-town publication takes an outside-in look at our fair city? We've pointed to such pieces in the L.A. Times and the Economist even
SF News Ohh, Snap! Costas Makes Bonds Look Silly Notes to self for when we become famous: memorize the phrase "no comment." Utilize it frequently. Take the high road. Don't respond to critics in the media. Monsters & Critics brought our attention
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 4 Braves 2- You know, the fun thing about this whole Barry chase is that ESPN and Fox are trying to show as many Giants games as possible because nobody knows when
SF News Today in Barry Barry didn't play last night due to his legs being shot from playing Tuesday's 13 inning birthday game, thus disappointing a sold out stadium, Bud Selig, and scores of press from around the
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Braves 7 Giants 5- Man, can you believe it's the 20th Anniversary of Guns n' Roses' "Appetite for Destruction?" Twenty years. We can still remember when that album (yes, album) came out and
SF News Talking Barry Tomorrow, ESPN will take a break determining whether Tom Brady is more Now than LeBron is and feature a town hall type thingy in San Francisco on the issue of Barry Bonds and
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After And in other Bonds news, his alleged ex-mistress is doing her best to come off as a credible witness by taking it all off for Playboy. A's 12 Angels 6- We have to
SF News It's Not Over til the Grand Jury Sings The case against Bonds stems from the initial Grand Jury on BALCO. Barry got up there and told everyone he never used steroids except by accident when he got duped into taking the
SF News Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana Again? Now, you know, one of the things we hate about all this Barry hullabaloo is that it allows other people to grab a big brush and paint us Giants fans in an unflattering
SF News 752 & 753 First it was the flack over the Home Run Derby and snippy comments from Magowan. Then it was the re-signing of Brian Sabean and further snippy comments from both Magowan and Sabean. After
SF News Behold! (A Very Young) Gavin in Uniform The Chron's Beth Spotswood lands a most delicious photo: a pre-Mayoral Gavin Newsom poured into a baseball uniform. Oh my. Well, then. (Not sure if this has been around, but it's the first
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Bad Boys of Summer: It's like Oz meets Field of Dreams, or something like that. Catch this documentary about San Quentin convicts playing baseball. Film starts at 7:30 p.m. at
Arts & Entertainment Don't Disrespect the Bing It's not enough that the Dodgers seem to win at will in our house, but Dodger fans are starting to get a little cocky too. Memo to Dodger fans: this is our house--
misc Were You Saying "Boooo" or "Gavin Boooo-som"? Here's a clip of Gavin on some time-filler radio show a couple days ago, talking about playing baseball and giving us an incredibly humorous taste of what he looks like when he's had
SF News Phoebe Halliwell Back In SF As we mentioned, Alyssa was all over this town for All-Star week: promoting her Touch 'Em All fashion line, hosting the celebrity All-Star game, attending All-Star parties where she was sighted by People
SF News Git-R-Done, Barry We kid, we kid, cause there's one super gigantic big thing out there and we all know what it is-- Barry's chase to 756. At the start of the season, we were ambivalent
SF News Seeing Stars at the All-Star Game We love seeing these games on TV for reasons already spelled out, mainly because it's a great way to show off the city and our little jewel of a park. And while watching
Arts & Entertainment Harry Potter and the Smooth Chest (Non-Baseball Event) Anyway, check it: The purple triple-decker Harry Potter Knight Bus will be parked outside the Main Library (Grove St. side) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11, and a
Arts & Entertainment Pretty Home Run Derby Pictures And, after the jump, David has one more photo, this time of Lou Seal trying to get some action from Alyssa Milano.
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Back (Ow!) Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park,
SF News It's All-Star Time Of course, it wouldn't be any sort of baseball event in the city without it becoming, at some point, not about the Giants or about the ballpark or baseball, but about Barry. First
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events, for the non-baseball inclined: --It's the Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival! Short films in the backyard. $5, 199 Valencia (x Duboce), doors at 8, movies at 9. --We know, we always give