Arts & Entertainment An Unapologetic Rant About Why We Still Love Barry Bonds The greatest baseball player that any of us ever saw turned 50 yesterday. Happy belated birthday, Barry Bonds! People HATE Barry. Loathe him. Even in San Francisco! But then there are those of
Arts & Entertainment The All-Star Game Doesn't Count, But We Love It Anyway Real baseball resumes on Friday, unless for some inexplicable reason you count the All-Star Game, in which case, it resumes tonight. How should we feel about the All-Star Game? On the one hand,
Arts & Entertainment Giants Vs. A's Bay Bridge World Series Looking Unlikely, Sadly There was once a time when there was a National League and there was an American League. There was a time when never the twain did meet—until it mattered. Back in those
SF News Oakland A's Staying In Oakland For Another Ten Years [Updated] After some last-minute negotiations and a threatening email late last night from Lew Wolff, it looks like the City of Oakland has caved and the A's are now definitively staying in Oakland through
SF News Barry Bonds Is Appealing His Felony Conviction, Again [Big sigh.] Three years after Barry Bonds was convicted of obstructing justice in the 2003 steroids-distribution case in which he was originally charged, the retired player has gone back to the 9th Circuit
SF News The Giants' June Swoon Is Almost Over: What's Next? So how about the World Cup! So far, it's been a jolly good show, that. Messi, Benzema, Neymar, Van Persie, Dempsey, and even Rooney found the net. And hopefully you've been so enthralled
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Best Team In Baseball For the most of this still young season, it was a mere curiosity. A statistical aberration that would surely revert to the mean. Eventually, it may well do just that, but for now
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Having A Ruben Rivera Kind Of Day There are those days where nothing, and I mean nothing, goes right. You wake up on Monday morning and realize that the laundry you skipped for the past two weeks and absolutely NEEDED
Arts & Entertainment A's Want George Michael To Make Coliseum Appearance The Oakland A's have a lot on their plate this season. Most notably, at least to non-Athletics fans, is their quest to get George Michael to make a cameo appearance at a game.
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Enjoy Josh Reddick's Sultry New Walk-Up Music: 'Careless Whisper' Your browser does not support iframes. It may be hot outside today, but inside it's getting even hotter after catching a ripe whiff of Josh Reddick's sexy new walk-up music: "Careless Whisper" by
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Here's To Another Even-Numbered Year Last season, the Braves, the Pirates, and the Bums were three of the four National League post-season teams. The Giants just spent the last 10 days visiting each of them, reminding them that
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Perched Atop The NL West Panda and Pence have two home runs each. Brandon Belt hit five home runs in the first eight games and two in the last 24. Matt Cain has not recorded a single, solitary
SF News Cain Cuts Hand While Slicing Sandwich, Lands On The DL Set to take the mound for the first time in almost two weeks, Matt Cain has been place on the DL after injuring his hand. It seems the noted pitched sliced his hand
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Sandoval Under Review All droughts eventually come to an end. For California, that end will probably come with this year's expected little boy, El Niño. For the Giants, it ended last night in the Rocky Mountains.
SF News Map Says There Are Hardly Any A's Fans In The Bay Area, Even In Oakland Although you see many A's caps around town and can't help but notice their green-and-yellow costumery while riding BART, this map says there are basically no A's fans in the Bay Area, not
SF News The A's Probably Stuck In Oakland For Good Over the past five years there's been a lot of grumbling over at the Oakland Coliseum and rumblings from the owners of the Oakland A's that they were going to high-tail it to
Arts & Entertainment Let's Talk About Last Night's Epic Giants-Dodgers Game Did you stay up past midnight to catch the end of last night's Giants-Dodgers game? I sure did. Thrilling, exasperating stuff. Going into 12 innings, the game lasted almost 5 hours (4 hours
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Three-Way Arizona Diamondback outfielders, from left, Mark Trumbo, A.J. Pollock, and Gerardo Parra celebrate after last night's unfortunate win against the Giants, 7-3.
SF News Video Shows Cop Choking Handcuffed Giants Fan [Update] A fan at Tuesday's SF Giants home opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks recorded this footage of an SFPD officer and what appears to be a non-resisting Giants fan. Bigbodycisco, who uploaded the video,
Arts & Entertainment Watch Batkid Throw Out The First Pitch At Giants' Home Opener Young Miles Scott (AKA Batkid) put another feather in his mask: he got to throw out the first pitch at the Giants' home opener. Scott, a Northern California boy with leukemia, saved San
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Alas, We Should All Be At Today's Game Last Week: at Arizona (WON) at Arizona (lost) at Arizona (WON) at Arizona (WON) at L.A. Bums (WON) at L.A. Bums (WON) at L.A. Bums (lost) This Week: Tue: Diamondbacks
SF News Reminder: Giants Home Opener Is Today Your San Francisco Giants return to AT&T Park today to take on the D-Backs, starting at 1:35. As of 9:25 AM, I'm seeing little to no orange-and-black attire pouring
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Dodgers Stadium... LAPD officer watches from the stands before today's game between the (pathetic, unkempt) Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants.
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Opening Day! We're a grizzled and tough bunch—we endure. And as we do every year, we San Franciscans looked Old Man Winter in his dead, milky eyes, and dared him to do his worst.
