SF News 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
SF News 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 kind of bananas
SF News Let's Play BALCO! For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking,
SF News For the Love of The Game -- And Cash The dude who got Barry’s 700th homerun ball back in September put it up for auction on Overstock.com (and drew a winning bid of—wait for it—$804,129). SFist was
SF News Political Road Rage It's no secret that people tend to display their political leanings on their car bumpers, and it's also no secret that emotions are running high. SFist will also confess that when we see
SF News He's Got the Biggest Ball in the World choked in gruesome, horrible, gut-wrenching fashion, there is some joy in Mudville a judge ruled that Steve Williams, the man who walked home with Barry Bonds' homerun ball #700, is - allowed to
SF News 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
SF News 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 lost, and
SF News When Mohr is Less The Cubs and Dodgers both lost last night, but, in one of the most painful games of the year, so did the Giants. To make matters worse, the Astros won, thereby giving themselves
SF News One-for-Three is Okay in Hitting, But Not in Series It was a big weekend for Bay Area baseball but things didn't go as well as the local teams had hoped against their division rivals from the Southland. (Nor for SFist in the
SF News Local Man Looks on in Horror as Ninth Inning Collapse Costs Giants a Crucial Game in the Standings SFist had high hopes for a series sweep for the Giants throughout last night's game against the Astros, but the bullpen had different ideas. Taking a three-to-two lead into the ninth inning, the
SF News He Hits it High, He Hits it Deep, He Hits it Outta Here! Back in the halcyon days when SFist was launching and the Giants were getting their collective ass handed to them by the lowly Cincinnati Reds, it was looking pretty grim down at Third
SF News I Want My GOTV Those of you who look down when you walk may have seen the sidewalk graffiti for www.indyvoter.org. Indyvoter.org is encouraging younger people who previously haven't voted to actually get to
SF News Heeyyy Batta Batta The story of the heckler out of Oakland Coliseum just keeps getting better and better. Today, Craig and Jennifer Bueno gave a press conference to announce that they would be pursuing both civil
SF News The 700 Club Whether you like Barry Bonds or not as a person, you have to respect him (actually, be in awe of him) as a ballplayer. And since you probably don't ever have to have
Arts & Entertainment Crunk Critics, Drunk Didacts and Lush Literates Writers and drinkers go together like Bogie & Bacall, like Brad & Jen, like Hall & Oates. Which is why we, the underpaid and over-inebriated writers at SFist, couldn't be more excited about
misc The Essefficist Needs Your Help We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little
SF News Wine Snobs and Baseball? But what really cut was the photo included in the story, that of your typical effete wine-drinking Yuppie couple watching a Giants' game from tony box seats (with pictures of boats in the
Arts & Entertainment Curious About The Curiosa Festival? The Curiosa Festival rolled into our very own SBC Park on Saturday. We were originally horrified at the choice of venue. Um, death rock and Barry Bonds? However, upon entry to the stadium,
Arts & Entertainment Sit Back and Relax, Enjoy The show So, you're saying that you want to see a movie in San Francisco this weekend, but you don't feel like braving the faux-Vegas splendor of The Metreon or the many many escalators of
SF News Barry Bonds Frappe Deux Longues Balles There aren't too many doubleheaders in baseball anymore, and most of them are split admission, so you gotta have two tickets, one for each game. Today, though, it's just like old times and
SF News I Guess I Can't Wear Those Red Pants Anymore Making your world a little more paranoid, the reports that gang wars are back in the Mission. The (red-wearing) Norteno gang considers the South Mission their turf, while the upstart (blue-wearing) Sureno gang