SF News Cuba, Yes. Barry No Naturally, the announcement has already spawned speculation as to why. Mainly in that it's a way to avoid the Olympic style steroid testing that the WBC will enforce. Or, to paraphrase a commenter
SF News Catching Up With Barry There's some actual baseball news a-happenin' here in the Fog City, our favorite kind too-- Barry news. First up is news that Barry is going to star in his own reality show. The
SF News So Long Rusty Just wondering, but how long will it be before we start seeing a "Rehab Rusty" movement? Also changing at Whatever The Hell It's Named Now Park is that Splash Landing will no longer
SF News Those Moneyball 49ers What makes Marathe the center of the debate is because he is a big rectangular box in the Niners organizational flow-chart and he is most definitely not a football guy. What he is
SF News It's Fonzie For Finley This isn't to say that the trade for Finley ranks up there with his trade for Schmidt or Rob Nenn. It's not. Finley is 40 years old and had a hooorible year last
SF News A's Brand Baseball: We Got Game Like Parker Brothers After an unproductive week at the MLB winter meetings, the A's heated up the winter stove again: they traded minor league OF Andre Ethier to the Dodgers for major league OF Milton "Insert
SF News Pitcher or Belly Itcher? And the Giants got their man. Monday it was announced that Matt Morris, formerly of the Cardinals, is now a member in proud standing of the Black & Orange. As we said earlier,
SF News Goodbye, J.T. Look, we know, J.T.'s numbers were never really that great. And he was a bit of an offensive liability, especially these past couple of years. But call us sentimental because we'll
SF News Hot Stove Heating with the Giants Let's start with the bad news: so far the only Hot Stove action the Giants have pulled off is trading one relieving re-tread for another relieving re-tread for yesterday they traded LaTroy Hawkins
SF News Welcome Houstonist! In our parent company's continuing spread across the globe, we're happy to welcome Houstonist to the fold. We've heard tell of some sort of barbecue-related rivalry between them and Austinist, and words have
SF News Meet Your New Reliever, Same as the Old Reliever Worrell chose not to resign with the G-Men in 2004, opting for the Phillies, something that didn't quite work out that well. Last year, he left for undisclosed "personal reasons" (juicy rumor of
SF News Barry in the U.S.A From a marketing standpoint, it's great for baseball. Barry gives the games legitimacy they might not have gotten if say, the biggest guy on the U.S.A team is Mark Grudzielanek. It'll
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 Your Commute: Dum-Dum Sucker We've all thought about it -- but who knew someone had the Easter Eggs to actually go and ? CHP arrested a Petaluma man Wednesday on 101 in Marin for dressing up a dummy
Arts & Entertainment A's Brand Baseball: Bill King, d. 2005 Holy Toledo. Bay Area sports lost an institution on Tuesday morning, when A's broadcaster Bill King passed away after complications to hip surgery. He was, the Chronicle says, "believed to be around 80.
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Devil You Know When A's Brand Baseball last appeared here, the A's and manager Ken Macha (right, not a recent photo) had broken off contract negotiations. $2.6 million over 3 years, with a team option
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Game Over, Man We've come to bury Ken Macha, not to praise him . . . 2005 was a down year for the A's, and they won 88 games. That's 3 fewer than they won in 2004--a year when
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Put a Fork In It And with that, we bid adieu to the Giants' season as baseball has moved to the playoffs and everyone's favorite drama, Waiting For the Sox/Yanks. Which means it's time for Your San
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Are All About the Love We admit it, we have a love/hate thing with Barry Bonds. On one hand, we have an inate love of all things Orange & Black. On the other hand, we have a
SF News Baseball as Oakland Starting this Saturday, the Oakland Museum of California is hosting an exhibition from the Baseball Hall of Fame, called Baseball As America, displaying the history of America's game. The show's been traveling across
SF News A's Brand Baseball Keeps The Faith We know, we know: It's Barry Bonds Week in Bay Area baseball. That's very exciting, but there's also a pennant race going on just across the bay from 24 Willie Mays Plaza. After
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Down The Stretch They Go In May, while the A's struggled along 8 1/2 games behind Los Los Angeles Angeles de Anaheim Anaheim in the American League West, A's Brand Baseball promised not to mention the division
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 So Long, Woody Today, we come to praise Kirk "Woody" Rueter, not to bury him. For yesterday, the Giants gave the long-time Giants pitcher and winningest left-handed pitcher in franchise history his walking papers. We knew
