SF News Your San Francisco Giants: Those Were the Days Maybe it's because we're back to work after a long weekend, but SFist has taken to getting nostalgic for those glory days of yore- last week. Ahh, last week, what a week that
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Beat L.A.! When the Giants signed Benitez, the thinking was that a closer stabilizes things in the bullpen. Everyone knows their roles and so everyone can concentrate on doing what they need to do-- bullpen
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Hey Bay Area baseball fans, take a deep breath of relief as your offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed baseball team faces off against another offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed Bay Area
SF News Your San Francisco Giants- What the Hell? It didn't quite work out that well but it neatly summarizes the Giants this season-- what the hell? Felipe has always managed like a mad scientist, throwing anything and everything out there to
SF News Where's Barry? "dangerous drugs and controlled substances to friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes, for whom he kept no medical records or for whom the medical records were fictitious, inadequate or inaccurate." Ting denies the charges
SF News More Surgery for Bonds Even scarier is that those dark, icky thoughts in the back of all Giants' fans minds, that they just might not have Barry at all this season, is becoming more and more reality.
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo
Arts & Entertainment Revenge of the Essefficist <i>Update: Metreon Tix Now on Sale</i> Greetings loyal readers. Welcome to Tuesday. You know those annoying people you see at Giants games with the laptops, busily availing themselves of the free wi-fi network? The Essefficist is them. Even as
SF News Your Giants: Breeding Lilacs out of the Dead Land Let's just come right out and say it: the Giants, now 8-10, had a crappy week. They went two-and-five against teams that, even without Barry Bonds (whose return is still shrouded in steroid-enhanced
SF News Tus Gigantes: Once Abajo y Ciento Cincuenta y Uno Mas Having recuperated from a recent bout of baseball-related mathematiasis, SFist comes to you this fine Monday afternoon from sunny Denver bearing a first-hand report of yesterday's Giants/Rockies finale at Coors Field, along
SF News Back To Oakland The promising new and/or young players have so far delivered upon their, uh, promise: Nick Swisher hit two home runs against the Orioles on Wednesday, Danny Haren struck out six in six
SF News Your 2005 Giants: Six Down, <strike>154</strike> 156 to Go Considering that the Giants are missing their two biggest bats and have suffered through a couple of ugly bullpen metltdowns in the last few games, they've got to be pretty pleased with their
SF News The Giants Start the Season Right We spent the past few months obsessing over the Giants' offseason moves and the past few weeks wondering if all of our worst fears about the team's collective age were coming true. We
misc The Essefficist Thinks Long-Term Excuse all the noise, but everyone here at the Essefficist is busy celebrating the Giants' win over the Dodgers today (and digesting hot dogs). But we're here for you baby. Especially you, John.
SF News There's Nothing Like a Giants/Dodgers Opener It's opening day and if you know what's good for you you'll ditch work, head down to the ballpark, and try to get someone's extra ticket. The Giants welcome--Could that possibly be the
misc The Essefficist Cares. Sort of. This week the Essefficist brings you yet another question from an out of towner pining for San Francisco. Hopefully this one will prove a little more satisfying than that poetry thing last week.
Arts & Entertainment Who's Blogging Now And for those of you wondering just what Glenn writes about on his blog, it's what every other blogger is- Britney pregnancy rumours and are the Killers merely cool or way cool. No,
SF News Barry Bad for Baseball? The question is being discussed in the MSM, the internets, and the shouting yak-fest shows on ESPN. A recent poll on ESPN.com showed that not only do people want him to retire,
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
SF News No Barry? The reasons for the Barrisimo’s announcement is his knees. Since last season, he’s had two knee operations, which is hard enough on anyone, let alone someone whose 40 years old. And
SF News The Giants Want You! Doing what hasn't been determinted, but the job does carry with it the title of "Special Assistant." Why, you’ll be just like George Costanza, although we don’t think Sabean will allow
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Immovable Type There's no love for free blogging software as Mr. Sarah Low Daly responds to our previous suggestions about the Chronicle-created controversy over his Board of Supes blog, where, as you may recall, in
SF News SWM iso Martian. High Speed Connection a Plus. While we here in the -ist empire are struggling to cover the globe with our pithy observations and bad puns, we must offer grudging respect to Craig's List, for whom the world is
SF News Your 2005 San Francisco Giants Pitchers and catchers reported to the San Francisco Giants' spring training facility in Scottsdale, Arizona last week and position players showed up yesterday. Since every other baseball fan in town with a keyboard
SF News Robb Retires Making official what was probably obvious for the past two years, Giants relief ace Robb Nen quietly retired over the weekend. Nen played a huge part in recent Giants history, in pitching against
