The Beginning of the 2015 Giants Season

The beginning of a new baseball season always starts with great anticipation, and excitement. Of course, a lot of this also depends on how the past season ended. If it ended with your team on top by winning the whole enchilada, the World Series then, there is nothing left to ask for. The offseason may […]

I Love A (World Series) Parade

Wow!! I still cannot believe that my team, the San Francisco Giants, have won their third World Series Championship in five years. This is the first time it’s been done in the National League since the 1940’s. The word “Dynasty” had been mentioned…and I never thought that the Giants would become associated with that word. […]

The S.F. Giants in the 2014 MLB Playoffs

I find it so hard to believe that I am living in one of the Golden Ages of Giants baseball. Two World Series Championships in three years, and now, the opportunity for a third World Series Championship. What is it about the even years in the second decade of the 2000’s? I think of all […]

2014 Giants At the All-Star Break

When you live and die with your sports team, if your team is on top and playing well, you’re euphoric and happy. However, when they go through a bad stretch, you just want it to over it, or past it. The Giants had a horrible stretch in June, at one point going 4-15. It truly […]

SF Giants Opening Day 2014

There is nothing quite like the beginning of a new baseball season. You see players, both pitchers and hitters, as well as teams who start off doing surprisingly well. The hitters will end up where they usually do, around their lifetime batting average, and the pitchers around to their lifetime ERA. For the most part, […]

A SABR Tour of Candlestick Park

Recently, I had the great pleasure of taking a tour of Candlestick Park, one of the ‘homes’ of my youth. It was done through my SABR group, the Lefty O’Doul chapter. SABR is Society for American Baseball Research, a group devoted to baseball—both to baseball’s history and to its statistics. I happen to enjoy both […]

Remembering San Francisco’s Candlestick Park & thoughts on the 2014 Giants

Within a few short months, Candlestick Park will no longer be there, and will be demolished. I’m still not sure what will replace it. Nothing can replace it in my heart. The baseball Giants played there from 1960 to 1999 and the football 49ers played there from 1971 to 2013. The 49ers are moving down […]

The End of the SF Giants 2013 Season

As difficult as it is for me to admit, the 2013 baseball season is over for the Giants, and it’s been over for quite a while. The Giants were just recently mathematically eliminated. The Giants’ 2013 season has been over for a while due to too many critical injuries, inconsistent pitching, poor defense (at critical […]

The Steroid Era: A Fan’s Lament

I’ve been a baseball fan, and a Giants fan for over thirty years. I’ve seen good teams, average teams and bad teams. I’ve seen different styles of play within baseball over the course of my time being a baseball fan. I have mixed feelings about the steroid era, because one of the biggest stars, Barry […]

Giants After the 2013 All-Star Game Break

It is now the half-way point of the 2013 Baseball season. It can either be a very long season or a very short season, depending on how your team is playing, who they’re playing, and where your team sits in the standings.   The last five weeks of the Giants’ season have been filled with […]

Leading Men: Giants enjoy another title

The longest, most difficult time of the year for me is the stretch between the end of the baseball season, and the start of spring training. It just seems to drag on for far too long. Does it make a difference that the San Francisco Giants won the 2012 World Series? Absolutely!! I love having […]

Series turns into mismatch – for Giants

After two playoff series with six possible elimination games for the San Francisco Giants, all full of ‘torture’ and suspense, I fully expected there to be more of the same in the World Series against the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers had gotten into the World Series after sweeping the New York Yankees in the American […]

Somehow Giants make it to Series

Wow! Unbelievable! Incredible! You pick the adjective. Any one of those can describe the 2012 National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and the St Louis Cardinals. The Giants were on the brink of elimination to the Cards, and they roared back  to overwhelm them. As a longtime Giants fan, I never thought […]

Giants ramp up rollercoaster for Round 2

I love baseball. Over the course of time, it becomes a rollercoaster ride of different emotions while rooting for your team. You go through the highs and the lows, and there is absolutely nothing that you can do about it. And, if you’ve supported your team for any significant length of time, then you realize […]

Giants well-armed for deep playoff run

The magic number for the San Francisco Giants is now 11. Eleven postseason wins will get them a World Series championship and a huge parade through downtown San Francisco to City Hall. This is what every team strives for, and every fan hopes to see in their lifetime, at least once. It is truly special. […]

Seeing Lee Is Well Worth the Journey

One of my favorite former ballplayers is pitcher Bill Lee. Lee pitched for the Boston Red Sox and the Montreal Expos from 1969-1982. He was also blacklisted from Major League Baseball for standing up for his teammates. The Expos released one of Lee’s teammates, Rodney Scott. Lee and Scott were friends, and Lee thought that Scott was […]

Despite Pitching Problems, Giants Roll

First, I would like to apologize to my editors and my readers for my lack of communication, and lack of writing activity regarding the San Francisco Giants. I have been quite busy with personal issues. I feel like I finally have the time to write about my beloved Giants. This has been a very interesting […]

Reflecting on the Giants: September and Beyond

Well, it looks like the 2011 NL West Champions will be the surprising and over-achieving Arizona Diamondbacks. I think that it would take a miracle for the Giants to repeat as NL West Champs and make the playoffs. If the Giants did repeat as NL West Champs, I honestly do not believe that they would […]

Reflecting on the Giants Midseason Trades

I love baseball trades, especially in midseason. They are exciting! You just do not know what you are going to get. of course, it also depends on whether your team is a buyer or a seller. Is your team competitive and trying to build for the post season? Or, is your team auctioning good players […]

One Fan’s Take on Posey & the Giants

Injuries are just part of baseball. They are part of what makes it so difficult for a good team to repeat the success of their prior year. I do think that most ballplayers expect to either play hurt or be injured at some point in their professional career. I do think that this is an […]

A Giant April

Well, the month of April is over for the Giants. I do not feel the same hopeful optimism that I felt last year. However, I do also recognize that it is early in the year. I find the Giants’ lack of offense of great concern, but this was the same situation they were in last […]

The San Francisco Giants in Winter

    So, what did I do in the winter aftermath of the 2010 Giants winning the World Series? I enjoyed the victory parade down Market Street. I got to see the World Series Trophy at City Hall in San Francisco. I went to the Giants Fanfest, which was packed with an enormous turnout. And […]

A Fan’s Perspective on the World Champion SF Giants Off Season

A few weeks ago, one of my dear friends e-mailed me to ask what had happened to my enthusiasm for the Baseball Winter Meetings. I think that my feelings for the Winter Meetings changed when it went from being an opportunity for teams to trade players to try to shore up their weaknesses to being […]

2010 SF Giants World Series Victory Parade: A Fans-Eye View!

The Giants’ World Series victory was spectacular!! I had spent the previous day working at the Polling Booth, starting at 6 am until 9 pm. I was utterly exhausted, but I wasn’t going to miss the parade. I kept waking up in the middle of the night trying to avoid my worst nightmare of oversleeping […]

A Giants Fan’s Elation on their 2010 World Series Championship

The San Francisco Giants are the 2010 World Series Champions, the champions of the baseball world. They are the champions for the first time since 1954, and for the first time in San Francisco. Nothing can ever take this away from them. Wow!!! I cannot think of anything that more that can express my feelings […]

The Giants are in the World Series!!

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Giants eliminated the Phillies in six games to win the 2010 National League Championship to go on to the World Series to play the Texas Rangers. I must state that I did get tired and annoyed with the announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, who frequently derided the […]

It’s an Orange October in San Fransisco

Wow!! Is this an Orange October or what?! So much has happened for the Giants that it has been absolutely incredible!! I am sorry that I haven’t written sooner, but I am just beside myself. It all started with the end of the season, and the Giants needed to win one game out of three […]

The San Francisco Giants Down the Stretch

Giants in September There is nothing to love more than meaningful September baseball, especially for teams in contention like the Giants. This is when every game, every pitch and every play is meaningful. It is the difference between your home team being on the couch in October versus being in the playoffs, trying to go […]

The Giants Playoff Picture?

The Giants’ baseball season is now down to less than thirty games and a month left in the calendar year. August was another roller coaster ride, especially when your ace, goes 0-5 with an ERA over 7.00. On the other hand, I did see the offense get white hot against the Cincinnati Reds. The Giants […]

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