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Yeah, It's Another Scandal!

So what does this have to do with the price of the Tea at Coffee Tea & Spice on Haight? Turns out one of his clients was rumored to be one Barry Lamar

SFist Whines & Dines: 21st Amendment and Hennessy’s Wine Shop

The tradition continues with the 10th Annual Dog Days of Summer on August 5th against the Colorado Rockies. But the competition hardly matters, what does matter is before the game all the dogs

This Week in Barry: Here Comes the Judge

Yesterday CNN reported that a federal grand jury is looking into whether Barry should be indicted for saying in the BALCO trial that he didn't knowingly and purposely do steroids when it's looking

Barry's First Day Back at Work

Yeah, the Giants lost the season opener last night 6-1 as Jake Peavy shut the Black & Orange down, but that, of course, isn't what everyone is talking about. In something that should

Your San Francisco Giants 2006 Season Preview

Here's how this phrase works in terms of this year's team: you say "the Giants starting rotation could be one of the best in the NL. Schmidt is healthy, Morris is a stud,

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

Arts & Entertainment

Noise Pop: Aqueduct

White guys rapping! Ganster rap? The most instantly lovable band SFist has encountered is Aqueduct, who do, in fact, mix in a little of the rap into their set. It takes a certain

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

The big question is why? The fact that major league baseball sponsors are bailing left and right on any sort of Barry home run celebration could have something to do with it. Then

SFist is Talking Baseball: Day 3

SFist Chris: The National League West? Holy crap what a mess. There's only room for one Pacific Coast League fellas. Of course it isn't that bad, but the NL West is pretty bad.

SFist is Talking Baseball: Day 2

SFist Chris:On paper, in my opinion, the Junior Circuit is clearly the stronger league, so I'm looking for a team with a DH to win it all this year. SFist Jon's pick,

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,

Barry's Big Lawsuit Blocked

Or something like that. In the suit, Barry asked not that the book be banned, but that he get all the proceeds from it. Well, not him exactly, but a charity of his

There...Is...Another....Book....

The big news concerning the ESPN book, "Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero" by Jeff Pearlman concerns, of course, steroids. In an excerpt published in the upcoming

Where Do We Go From Here? Redux

When we first heard news about the Bonds book, our first reaction was somewhere along the lines of "oh sh--, there goes the season." Once that passed, we got that sinking feeling in

Say It Isn't So, Barry

Very, very, bad. Pretty much everything everyone's always thought about Barry and steroids, even deep in the recesses of Giants' fans denying hearts, is confirmed in the book. Ass injections? Check. Started over

Cuz It's the O.G. D-O-Double-G, W-B-C

In short, SFist's official stance is this: Play ball! And onto the conversation: SFist Jon: World Baseball Classic-- brilliant idea or dumb-ass idea? SFist Jake: Brilliant idea. Are you kidding? When I watch

The Barry Show

The schedule for Barry Bonds reality show, "Bonds on Bonds", has been announced. It will air on ESPN 2 on Tuesday afternoons at 4 and will be half an hour long. The first

Craigslist Encounters: How Much For That Scary Dolly In The Window?

Craigslist trollers, such as us, oftentimes wonder how much thought goes into these values. For some goods, such as cars and baseball cards there are places to get rough estimates. But what about

About Those Photographs, Pictures Of..

What is there to say about the Barry in Drag photos that hasn't already been said? Like everyone else, our first reaction was "what the..?" followed quickly by "that's pretty funny" with a

Kerry Eleison

This year we find the Bay Area teams at opposite sides of the salary cap spectrum. The Niners got rid of some deadweight (like Ahmed Plummer) and are rolling in dough. That sounds

Barry's Annual State of the Barry Speech

For those who haven't heard, BARRY HAS ARRIVED IN TRAINING CAMP! We repeat, BARRY HAS ARRIVED IN TRAINING CAMP! A day late, however, something that drew a raised eyebrow from some ("oh my

Arts & Entertainment

So Long, Ira

We'll miss Miller, as we thought he was one of the best football reads there was. He wrote in a bare-bones style and just stuck to football, shying away from long discussions of

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

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A Little Wonder, a Little Con

WonderCon has come, gone, and left us a little sad. For some reason, the magic we felt last year was lacking this time around. Maybe it's because we're just plain tired of the

A's Brand Baseball: The Big If

Frank Thomas has hit 448 home runs, and has hit .307/.427/.568, over his 16-year career. That's pretty impressive, but in the last 2 seasons, Frank Thomas has been mostly injured: he's