SF News As the 'Roids Turn You know how in all this steroid hullabaloo, Tony LaRussa has been running around adamantly saying there was nothing going on, nothing happening, and nothing to see? Well, it turns out there was.
SF News Bonds' Bombshell Bombshell In the interview, which begins with her offering proof of their relationship, she said that Bonds started taking the drugs around 1999 as a way to recover faster from injuries and because, well,
SF News Giants Get 2007 All-Star Game Making official something that's been talked about for months, Major League Baseball today announced that the 2007 All-Star Game will be held at the Stadium Formerly Known as Pac Bell Park. Isn't it
SF News It's Wednesday. Do You Know What Your Baseball Stadium is Named Today? Even though we've always disliked the naming of stadiums after corporations (but think the voting on it is silly) we took a shining to Pacific Bell Park. Shortened to its nickname, Pac Bell
SF News Barry's Bum Knees If Giants fans are looking a little more nervous these days than they already were, it’s because it was reported today that on Monday, Barry Bonds went in for his second knee
misc Apologies from the Essefficist Surely your lonely life has been just a little bit more hollow the past couple of weeks, what with the holidays and the poor weather and the Essefficist not really writing at all.
SF News The Giants Pitch in For Tsunami Relief While it's kind of tempting to snark on some of this- The Insider's big story today was what the stars were doing to help out, including an interview with Clay Aiken on the
SF News This Old House As we said, there's nothing legitimately wrong in what the Giants are doing, and as die-hard supporters of the Orange & Black we're okay with the Giants searching through the sofas looking for
SF News Week in SFist -- Feliz Navidad Edition And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise! John 2:16 [New King James] Granted, that was after he'd
SF News Giants Add Another Alou and Look Real Old Doing It The Giants, who just love their history, are getting ready to sign manager Felipe Alou's son Moises to a two year deal worth something like thirteen or fourteen million bucks, making him their
SF News We Want a Catcher, Not a Belly Scratcher After last season’s spirit-crushing, totally maddening season, Giants’ fans from around the Bay, like kids sitting on Santa’s lap, have all been screaming the same thing: “We want reliever! We want
SF News Barry & BALCO- Where Do We Go From Here? Now that all the dirty secrets of the BALCO trial have been leaked and suspicions confirmed, those of us who bleed orange & black are in the midst of some of the darkest
Arts & Entertainment Bay Blogger Thursday (Night) Links to Giants blogs pop up once in a while on SFist. Have you ever looked at them? If you have, hopefully you got to Waiting for Boof, where you'll find not only
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
SF News More Baseball? It should be noted that the Giants, as indicated yesterday, have indeed locked up Armando Benitez to a three year deal. Also, the A's recieved catcher Jason Kendall in a trade with the
SF News The Giants Add a Good Strong Armando First thing is, you gotta understand that at least one SFist writer obsesses over the Giants to a damned near unhealthy point and scours the internet on a fairly regular (constant?) basis looking
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 Another One Bites The Dust While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that
misc Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says
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 Barry's Bad Week After this weekend, it's going to get harder for us Giants' fans to try and live in our shiny, happy denial land in regards to Barry Bonds and this whole BALCO mess. While
Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the