SF News The Battle of the Bay Begins This weekend, inter-league play rears its ugly head as the Giants travel cross the Bay Bridge to take on the A's in Oakland. Shouldn't Gavin and Jerry be making bets on these things,
SF News One More To the Babe Considering Barry's love of drama and his love of hitting most of his momentous home runs here at Whatever-the-hell-it's-Named-Park, it'll be a good bet that he’d hit both 715 and 716 this
SF News Down Goes Barry, Down Goes Barry It looks like Bud Selig's Barry Bonds voodoo doll is working as last night, before the Giants 2-0 victory over the Brewers, Barry was bonked on the head by a foul ball in
misc SFist Rants: We Want Our 7th Inning Back And yes, we do hate America, why do you ask? The main reason we don't like it? Hello, overkill. Seriously, we already play the National Anthem. Do we really need to hear two
SF News Loving Barry The simple answer is as it always is-- as somebody once said (the Sports Guy? Seinfield? Kafka?) sports fans root for the jersey. Why? Because when the home team wins, the hometown fans
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Looking Rather Fetching This Evening Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl in Brown Velour Jumpsuit: "I haven't been alone for 4 years. How long were we friends-with-benefits for -- 3 years?" --From Luisa/On a
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
misc 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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,
SF News 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,
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
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 Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
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 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
misc The 'Fisties: Favorite Athlete Truth be told, it's not that easy to choose our favorite Bay Area athlete these days. We don't think it's a stretch to say that twenty years from now, some barfly isn't going
