Arts & Entertainment Giants Struggling As Madison Bumgarner And Denard Span Land On Injured List Recently injured catcher Buster Posey was seen in an unfamiliar position Sunday as the Giants faced off in yet another disappointing game against the Denver Rockies: first baseman. As CSN Bay Area noted,
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Mixed Bag Of August I go out to eat almost every day. Nothing fancy, mind you I'm not really a white table-cloth type. I'll eat a burrito three, four times a week, easily, and I ain't even
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Will We Make The Post-Season? Maybe. Let's see, where were we? Ah yes, the Giants! Another year as reigning champs and another year of having been written off as having an outside chance at best at making the post-season,
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Giants, Let's Not Lose Every Game To The Dodgers, Please So, how about them Dubs?!!! Oh, right, this is where we spill ink on the Giants. Yeah, about them They're not playing so hot right now! They're hardly playing at all, actually. I
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Baseball Is Back! This past week was a special one to families all across San Francisco. Little old ladies with their pink plastic bags made their way home from the grocery store and prepared feasts that
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Thank You, Madison... And Pence, And Panda, And Panik, And Morse Last night, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals to claim their third World Series Championship in five seasons. Do you know what this means? You get a parade, and YOU
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Let's Make Game 7 <i>Their</i> Nightmare When you were a kid, you dreamt of Game 7 of the World Series. You acted it out in the backyard in your little league uniform and the glove that Mama bought you
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Bumgarner Shuts It Down Friday night wasn't good, but that punch-in-the-gut, sinking feeling came in the 3rd inning of Game 4 on Saturday. With two outs against them, the Royals stole second, singled, singled and scored, walked,
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: It Will Not Be A Sweep We're not that spoiled, are we? Surely, we didn't expect to sweep the Royals, did we? The proper answers are "no, we aren't" and "no, we didn't." Good, because the Royals will see
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: How To Win A Game In One Inning Last night, Game 1 of the 2014 World Series began at 5:07 p.m. 12 pitches later, Panda doubled, scoring Gregor Blanco. Seven pitches after that, Hunter Pence hit a two-run home
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Royals Are The Sentimental Favorite To Win The World Series, But Who Cares? In all my life, I've rooted against a Bay Area team exactly once. It was for Kansas City and against San Francisco and I'm not even ashamed. It was Joe Montana's second season
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Giants Are In The World Series Again, Because It's An Even-Numbered Year You do know the baseball world hates us, don't you? They all hate us. Everyone hates us. And we don't care. San Francisco: We're going back to the World Series! Close your eyes.
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 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
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Wild Cards And Willie McCovey A few days ago, the Los Angeles Bums punched their ticket to the playoffs. Just saying that makes me want to brush my teeth with soap. I hate those Dodgers. The Giants, meanwhile,
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 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 An Unapologetic Rant About Why We Still Love Barry Bonds The greatest baseball player that any of us ever saw turned 50 yesterday. Happy belated birthday, Barry Bonds! People HATE Barry. Loathe him. Even in San Francisco! But then there are those of
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,
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 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
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Perched Atop The NL West Panda and Pence have two home runs each. Brandon Belt hit five home runs in the first eight games and two in the last 24. Matt Cain has not recorded a single, solitary
