Arts & Entertainment Just Because... The Giants have just taken a 3-1 lead in the National League Championship Series. The city is elated. Journey songs can be heard blasting out of bars all over town, and tomorrow's Game
SF News Giants Win Game 3 Of The National League Championship Series In 10 Innings After a crazily tense, three-hour, 10-minute, 10-inning game, the Giants have taken the lead in the National League Championship Series. The Giants started with an early 4-run lead, but the game was tied
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Looking Back On The Giants' History With The Cardinals I don't hate the Cardinals. Hate is such a strong word and a terrible thing. It should only be used to describe one's feelings toward ISIL or the Dodgers or other nefarious groups.
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Giants Are Magic Yesterday, the San Francisco Giants advanced in the playoffs. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Bums were eliminated from the playoffs. Yesterday was the best of days. The score was tied, 0-0, at the bottom
Arts & Entertainment Tony Bennett Kind Of Botched 'God Bless America' At Yesterday's Giants Game The great Tony Bennett, 88, was brought out to sing "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch of yesterday's Game 3 in the Giants-Nationals NLDS playoff series. His voice, honestly, still sounds
Arts & Entertainment Inner Sunset Church Says 'God Is A Giants Fan' St. Cecilia's Catholic Church on 17th Avenue has taken to posting some secular, pro-Giants messages on their street-facing sign now that the Giants are two games up in their third playoff bid in
Arts & Entertainment Giants Win First Playoff Against Nationals 3-2 In the Giants' first post-season game in Washington, D.C., which may have led to a $15 million loss in productivity citywide today, our boys triumphed. Things got a little tense in 6th,
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Looking Back On The Giants' History Against D.C. The Washington Nationals were born in 2005, and for just the second time, they have made it to the post-season. They will host our San Francisco Giants for Game 1 of the NLDS
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Watch The Giants' Playoff Games LET'S GO GIANTS!! It's time, everyone, to bask in the October glow of the post-season, and to watch our boys in orange do what they do best — in even-numbered years only. Today's first
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Bumgarner Is A God It was a do-or-die game. The Giants did and lived; the Pirates got done and died. And Madison Bumgarner is a bad, bad man. Actually is Madison a man? That would mean he
Arts & Entertainment Video: Elderly Pirates Fan Somehow Gets Into Giants Dugout Yes, Giants ace Madison Bumgarner delivered against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Wild Card game, as we expected. But what we didn't expect is that the shoddy Pirates security would allow a
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Giants Face Pirates In Wild Card Showdown Tonight, And They Will Win Today, the San Francisco Giants play the Pittsburgh Pirates in, for all intents and purposes, the 163rd game of the season, a game we were once denied. After playing their 161st game on
SF News The Giants Still Looking At Wild Card, And Pagan Is Out For Back Surgery At last night's Giants-Dodgers game in L.A., Madison Bumgarner had a brief meltdown in the first inning after hitting Yasiel Puig in the foot with a pitch, leading to a shouting match
Arts & Entertainment Tim Lincecum Might Never Return To Form And That's Okay Tim Lincecum was the face of the Giants franchise. He defined the Giants in the post-Barry Bonds era. He was young, talented, fiery, and he was a winner. Was. Now, Tim Lincecum has
Arts & Entertainment Watch Robin Williams Rallying The Crowd At A Giants Post-Season Game In 2010 As many Giants fans know, Robin Williams was a fixture at many games, especially in the post-season of the past few years. On October 7, 2010, as the Giants were about to play
Arts & Entertainment The Giants Five-Game Losing Streak: We Blame The Weather Since the All-Star break, the Giants hit the road and have gone 5-1 and reclaimed first-place in the NL West! No, wait, that was last week. Crap. It's this oppressive weather. What is
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,
SF News L.A. Dodgers Found Negligent In Bryan Stow Trial, Family To Receive $18 Million Jurors reached a verdict in a civil trial today finding that the L.A. Dodgers and their stadium were responsible in the egregious 2011 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow. Stow and his
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 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
SF News Reward, 10-Minute Head Start Offered For Hunter Pence's Scooter Return Hunter Pence remains in a state of deep melancholia after his scooter was swiped from outside Epic Roasthouse on Sunday. "He had a sad face on," Bochy said in the hours following the
SF News Someone Stole Hunter Pence's Scooter So iconic that the Giants used it in his bobblehead, Hunter Pence's scooter was reportedly stolen on Sunday. The scooter is customized with his name and uniform number. Hunter tweets: Ahhhh someone stole
