This is an unbelievable time for Bay Area sports. Unbelievable, followed by unbelievable, followed by exhaustingly unbelievable, and last night it raced over the threshold to total on-tilt sensory overload.
I know I can measure it precisely because I just reached a point where there’s too much going on simultaneously for me to properly discuss/analyze/randomly type…
And I can type about [...]
Nice of the local baseball teams to light it up news-wise the last couple of days, kind of nice, don’t you think?
Baggs with the well-reasoned, anticipatory story, with a few cautions for over-eager Giants fans about Johan Santana and Brandon Webb.
Hey, I already 95% believed that Tim Lincecum was going to win the NL Cy [...]
* Programming note: I’ve got to run over to the NFL Merc Monday Night Party in just a little bit, but I’ve been mulling some things with the onset of Holliday A’s Debate.
And can you tell? Good, bad or caustic, I am LOVING baseball debate here in November after all the football/NBA swooning and deserved lampooning going on [...]
* ESPN.com checks in with similar info, and says LHP Greg Smith is definitely in the deal. SFChron, too. This is HAPPENING.
Now this is how a dormant baseball team can wake up an NFL town: SI.com’s Jon Heyman is reporting that the A’s are closing in on a deal to acquire Colorado power-hitter Matt Holliday.
Heyman [...]
First, a declaration: This year’s Tampa Bay Rays team is the best collection of young baseball talent in over 20 years–yes, clearly more talent than the 2000-2001 A’s, which is the next-closest mass of young talent from 1988 to now.
Still, the Rays can’t quite beat the massive, stunning accumulation that made up the 1986 World Champion New York [...]
For bad teams–and the A’s and Giants are bad teams and have been determinedly bad in 2008–any season-ending victory total less than 81 and more than 62 really doesn’t matter. You’re bad. Bad is hardly relative (with the obvious caveats for injury, youth and strange misfortune).
Bad is pretty much just bad, if you’re 75-87 or 60-102. [...]
The last time I did a “They’re Done” list was June 3, and I will certainly update the current situations of Jeff Kent, Trevor Hoffman, Ken Griffey Jr., Ivan Rodriguez and many others on this very entry–just in a little bit.
Thought I was going to also do lists of the most surprising and biggest comebacks… but as I [...]
As I have stated–and today’s blog co-dissenter, Dan Brown, most certainly agrees–I have nothing but respect for the Chronicle’s Bruce Jenkins, for his writing, his thinking, his work and his super-brain.
But sometimes… Hey, the best arguments are when you go up against the best, and it just so happens Brown and I were talking about Jenks’ fascinating article [...]
It’s not a big shock that there is national speculation about impending mega-free-agent CC Sabathia eyeing the Giants (SI.com) as a possible destination this winter.
He’s a Vallejo kid. He’s a great guy who wants to be close to his family. He loves the National League for good reasons–he has dominated in his short stint so [...]
Lots of chewy stuff today, without a lot of extra time-energy-space to digest, so I’ll do it in byte-size morsels and leave room for 49ers-Bears dessert tonight:
* Great, great Dan Brown story outlining the 49ers’ Shakespearean dilemma: Who’s more to blame for the Alex Smith decline, the 49ers/Mike Nolan or Alex himself? A must-read, definitely. [...]
