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Loading ...A series of No’s… (Giants Cove)
Posted October 12, 2008 at 7:38 amI have posted little of late due both to my work schedule and the relative calm that descends on sub-par teams before the mad scramble of the offseason. During my absence, the Giants surrendered Travis Denker to the dreaded Padres. However, despite the furor surrounding this move (possibly necessitated by the pointless Gillaspie callup), the [...]
Tags: Fielder, Matt Cain, Ned Colletti, Travis Denker, University of Chicago (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Giants little more than longshot in Sabathia sweepstakes (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted October 12, 2008 at 12:00 amLet’s say the Giants won’t sign CC Sabathia for two reasons: Bill Neukom and Barry Zito. Neukom, the new managing general partner, has been a Giants investor since 1995 and a general partner since 2003. Until recently, the Giants never heavily went after an…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Open Championship Series Thread - AL Version: Extra Innings Edition (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Long game is long.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Scottsdale Scorpions win their first game (Giants Win)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 9:32 pmAlex Hinshaw blew the save but got the Scorpions’ first win in a 3-2 vic over the Phoenix Desert Dogs. Burris and Fransden were in the one-two slots and each got a hit. Attendance — 567Meanwhile, the Giants dumped Tyler Walker, Kevin Correia, Brad Hennessey, Ivan Ochoa, Scott McClain and Eleizer Alfonzo. They can re-sign Ochoa …
Tags: Alex Hinshaw, Brad Hennessey, Eleizer Alfonzo, Ivan Ochoa, Kevin Correia, Scott McClain, Travis Denker, Tyler Walker (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NLCS: Colletti walks line between baseball genius and scapegoat (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 7:35 pm- Word on the street here a few months ago was that Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti better not sign a long-term lease on his Los Angeles apartment. The Dodgers were underperforming and tempestuous owners Frank and Jamie McCourt were going to serve…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NLCS notes: Pete’s numbers not so happy (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 7:35 pm- As the Giants struggled to fill third base this season, the third baseman who left struggled to find his stroke in a hitters’ park. Pedro Feliz’s power and production dropped from his final year in San Francisco (20 homers, 72 RBIs) to his first year in…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Here’s where the MLB playoffs should be (Giants Win)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Great shots of Mays Field by The West End, taken two months agoThe Dodgers went 84-78; the Giants went 72-90 this year. Here’s hoping for a reversal in 2009.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Truly life and death / Phillies take 2 tragic phone calls, and a 2-0 series lead (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 12:00 amWhere did the tragedy end and the comedy begin? How blurred was the line? When was it proper to laugh, to cry, to revel, to bury one’s thoughts in stone silence? When before did these questions creep onto a baseball diamond with such urgency? Maybe this was…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lasorda dodges S.F. parade for Game 3 in L.A. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 12:00 amTommy Lasorda has withdrawn as grand marshal of Sunday’s Italian Heritage Day Parade due to a public stink about his selection and because organizers couldn’t ensure that he would get to Los Angeles in time to see his beloved Dodgers play Game 3 of the…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BALCO sentence could be good news for Bonds (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted October 11, 2008 at 12:00 amIn a rebuff to the prosecutors targeting Barry Bonds, a federal judge refused Friday to imprison a former bicycle racer for lying to the grand jury that investigated the BALCO scandal. In U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston sentenced…