Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
Bay Area Sports Oracle Park Gets More Like Being In the Club This Season With New Soundsystem, Lighting Effects Going to a Giants game this baseball season — or, likely, to any upcoming concerts at Oracle Park — is going to have a lot more nightclub vibes, thanks to a major lighting and sonic upgrade at the stadium.
Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
SF News Photo of SF Giants Player in New Official Uniform (And See-Through Pants) Goes Viral on Social Media A baseball reporter shared a picture of SF Giants' Casey Schmitt wearing the new MLB uniform on Thursday, and it left little to the imagination.
Bay Area Sports Giants Bring Back ‘The Panda’ Pablo Sandoval For Now the Third Time Do you still have your Pablo Sandoval “panda hat” from ten years ago? You may be able to put it to good use, as the Giants have just re-signed Sandoval to a minor-league contract, though with no guarantees he’ll play again in the big leagues.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Are Dumping That GM Cruise Patch on Their Uniforms That Fans Hated Here’s one reason to get excited for Giants baseball after the free agency flops in the offseason — the team won’t be wearing that cursed Cruise patch on their uniforms this year.
Bay Area Sports Giants Offered Shohei Ohtani the Same $700 Million the Dodgers Did, Ohtani Chose Dodgers Anyway In the wake of another Giants “always the bridesmaid” free agency whiff, we’re now learning that the Giants offered Shohei Ohtani the exact same deal the Dodgers offered, but Sho-Time still chose the Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Giants Interview Assistant Coach Alyssa Nakken To Be First-Ever Woman Manager of MLB Team The first woman to be an assistant coach in Major League Baseball could also be the first ever woman ever hired as manager of a team. The Giants confirmed that they’ve interviewed assistant coach Alyssa Nakken for the head coaching position.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brandon Crawford May be Finished as a San Francisco Giant Smoky skies have extended the Spare the Air declaration through Friday, the pedestrian who was struck by an SUV on Valencia Street Wednesday has died, and Brandon Crawford, the last remaining Giant from their most recent championships, may have played his final game as a Giant.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Ask Giants Fans to Join in Their ‘Sell the Team’ Protests At This Week’s Bay Bridge Series Games The Giants and A’s resume their Bay Bridge Series Tuesday at Oracle Park, but this time A’s fans are asking Giants fans to join them with “Sell the Team” signs, chants, and t-shirts. And the t-shirts will be free!
Bay Area Sports Giants to Play a Game on Willie Mays’s Hometown Field In Alabama Next Season It’s not the Field of Dreams game, but Major League Baseball is planning some “Specialty Games” to honor the legacy of the Negro leagues, and one of them will be the Giants playing on the very field where Willie Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons.
Bay Area Sports Giants Sweep Dodgers In Series Where L.A. Had Disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Did the Dodgers curse themselves with their clumsy disinviting and reinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night? Because the Giants swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles during the series, their first sweep of the bums in L.A. in 11 years.
Bay Area Sports Shortstop Brandon Crawford Gets To Pitch In Blowout Giants Win, Throws a Scoreless Ninth Inning The highly hair-gelled fan favorite Brandon Crawford was pulled into pitching duty as the Giants rode out their 13-3 win over the Chicago Cubs Sunday, and Crawford now has a 0.00 career ERA.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Assaulted With Metal Pipe In Marina Was Former Police Commissioner A former SF fire commissioner was brutally assaulted in the Marina Wednesday; Sunny Balwani's appeal to delay his prison term has failed; and the Giants' home opener is today, hopefully after the rain stops.
Bay Area Sports Fizzled Trades and Underwhelming Expectations: A San Francisco Giants' 2023 Season Preview As Major League Baseball tries to redefine itself and draw more viewership by speeding up the game, the Giants are, once again, a superstar-less team hoping to catch lighting in a bottle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Ready Up For Opening Day Against the Yankees The 4 Star, Balboa, and Vogue theaters successfully hit their $100k crowdfunding goal, Matt Horn’s Oakland burger joint Matty’s Old Fashioned will be opening soon, and your San Francisco Giants play ball for Opening Day Thursday morning at 10 a.m. PT.
Bay Area Sports Sergio Romo To Pitch For Giants One Last Time Tonight Former Giants pitcher Sergio Romo will end his 15-year career on a quickie contract with the Giants Monday night, and it looks like he may see more action than just a ceremonial first pitch in the Giants-A’s exhibition game at Oracle Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergio Romo Signs Symbolic Contract, Will Retire as A Giant PG&E admits Tuesday’s outages were the worst in nearly 30 years, the 4/20 Hippie Hill party announced its 2023 plans, and Sergio Romo, who famously wore an “I just look illegal” t-shirt in a championship parade, will retire as a San Francisco Giant.
Bay Area Sports Giants Lowering Beer Prices, Though Only At a Few Concession Stands Facing dwindling ticket sales since 2017, the SF Giants announced they’re lowering the price of beer from $14 to $9, though this only applies at select concession stands at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports Giants Nab Two Former All-Stars While Picking Through The Seeds And Stems Of Free Agency It’s probably not the jolt in morale the Giants clubhouse could use after the Carlos Correa debacle, but they added an outfielder who was an All-Star four years ago, and the twin brother of reliever Tyler Rogers, an All-Star in 2021.
Bay Area Sports Giant Screw-Up: Giants Lose Free Agent Mega-Acquisition Carlos Correa to Mets SF Giants fans are getting a lump of free agency coal this holiday season, as the team backed out of its blockbuster $350 million deal with All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa, and then Correa promptly bolted to the Mets.
Bay Area Sports Barry Bonds Denied Election to Baseball Hall of Fame Vote for the Umpteenth Time Cue up another round of ‘roid rage among San Francisco Giants fans, as Barry Bonds and a handful of other notorious steroids-era players were again denied Hall of Fame induction in a Sunday vote, though Bonds will be eligible for another vote in 2025.
Arts & Entertainment HBO Drops Trailer for Willie Mays Documentary, Premiering November 8 San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays gets the HBO documentary treatment in the upcoming ‘Say Hey, Willie Mays,’ exploring the slugger’s astonishing 25 years playing pro baseball, and his legacy off the field afterward.
Bay Area Sports After Aaron Judge Breaks AL Home-Run Record, the Debate About *Barry Bonds and the Pursuit of Purity Is Resurrected The tiny asterisk that has been attached, even if only by implication, to Barry Bonds' name was suddenly thrust under a microscope again this week. In the search for baseball "purity," however, no one's hands are clean.
Bay Area Sports The 2022 San Francisco Giants' Postmortem: A Season that Began with Promise and Ended at .500 The milestone in mediocrity perfectly exemplifies the overall blah-ness of the Giants' year. Sure, back in early May, San Francisco was actually leading the NL West, and seemed as if they might once again defy expectations and make a run at the postseason. But that inertia quickly faded.
