Arts & Entertainment Mayors Lee, De Blasio Make Twitter Bet On Giants Vs. Mets Wild Card Game The stakes for tonight's MLB Wild Card game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets just got way higher. Okay, not really. Still, civic pride is now on the line
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: New York, New York (By e.Chang) The Week That Was: Won 1, lost 1 against the Rockies. Won 3, lost 1 against the Dodgers. 69-81 for the season, 4th Place in the NL West. The Week
SF News SF Giants Score Carlos Beltran Noted slugger and outfielder Carlos Beltran will (most likely!) join the San Francisco Giants, the 2010 World Series champions. The Splash reports: "A source familiar with the discussions just told Henry Schulman that
SF News Heh...Heh...Heh...We Said Cockfighting This is the kind of thing that would bring on the animal rights activists as well as PETA but even more so in light of the Michael Vick thing; in fact, the guys
Arts & Entertainment When Fans Attack We'll try not to overdo all the Bonds stuff today, but to get you started, here's a video taken from somebody out in the centerfield bleachers, right where the ball landed. It's a
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After A's 5 Reds 3- Dan Haren won his ninth game as the A's beat the Reds to take the series and insure themselves of a winning record in interleague play. The A's hit
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Mets 4 Giants 2- The big news yesterday wasn't the Giants loss, but the loss of Armando Benitez who somehow got traded to the Florida Marlins for Randy Messenger. Messenger is pretty non-descript
misc It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 3 Mets 0- They say that one of the most important things about being a baseball player is the ability to keep things in perspective and to, as they say, "take it
SF News Oh, Armando After games like last night, Sports Talk radio can kind of be essential listening. Misery loves company after all and there's a lot of misery out there in Giants Land. Yes, the baseball
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Mets 5 Giants 4- Man, we don't even want to talk about this game. In a tight, dramatic, overstuffed games that felt like a playoff game, the Giants finally took the lead in
SF News Leon Trotsky Previews the Upcoming Baseball Season You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in, you. To a man we are told is the smartest man in baseball, Tony LaRussa, who finally overcame years of being
SF News The Worm? Oh, He is Turning If proved true, none of this is any good. It could lead to civil and in some cases criminal penalties. In the blogging world, there's something called a "Keith Hernandez" moment. This refers
SF News Baseball the Way God Intended-- During the Day Quick note on todays ALCS game-- the game is scheduled to start around 1:30 PST. The reason MLB is giving is because it's supposed to, yes, snow late Friday night and they'd
SF News Armando Cries Us a River Remember those halcyon days of 2005 when it became apparent the Giants season was not going to go as expected and everyone on the team started in with the kvetching? Well, it's happening
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: Happy Days Are Here Again? Here's what taking two-out-of-three games on the road against the best team in the National League will get you-- Giants bloggers are actually experiencing glee. And why not? They did take two from
SF News Hot Stove Heating with the Giants Let's start with the bad news: so far the only Hot Stove action the Giants have pulled off is trading one relieving re-tread for another relieving re-tread for yesterday they traded LaTroy Hawkins
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: When Bad Things Happen to Bad Teams The Giants lost every conceivable way possible-- bad hitting, bad pitching, and bad base running. To add insult to injury, they lost two games against the Phillies on bad calls. Oh, their shiny
SF News Farewell, Huddy In breaking news, Billy Beane has shipped the Oakland A's ace, Tim Hudson, to the Atlanta Braves for three young players who, well, won't cost so much. From Atlanta's point of view, we
SF News Wine Snobs and Baseball? But what really cut was the photo included in the story, that of your typical effete wine-drinking Yuppie couple watching a Giants' game from tony box seats (with pictures of boats in the
