Cain chased in 3rd, Giants lose ground (AP)
2009-09-23 04:21:00 Built on pitching, San Francisco has seen its starters struggle at just the wrong time. The Giants fell five games behind NL wild-card leader Colorado after a 10-8 loss to Arizona on Tuesday, when starter Matt Cain could not get out of the third inning. Cain gave up seven runs in 2 1-3 innings while ...
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U2 360 Tour llega al Giants Stadium de Nueva York
2009-09-22 08:14:00 El escenario de U2 360 Tour construyéndose en el estadio de los Giants en Nueva York. Los conciertos tendrán lugar el 23 y el 24 de Septiembre de 2009. Más fotos en Building "The Claw" at Giants Stadium - 9/21/2009
Lewis? hustle, bullpen key Giants win (AP)
2009-09-22 04:12:00 Speed and a terrific bullpen breathed a bit of life into the playoff hopes of the San Francisco Giants. Pinch-hitter Fred Lewis beat out a double-play grounder with the bases loaded to drive in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and five relievers shut down Arizona in the Giants' 5-4 victory over the Diamondbacks ...
By: MLB News Blog
Lewis? hustle, Giants bullpen key win (AP)
2009-09-22 04:12:00 Speed and a terrific bullpen breathed a bit of life into the playoff hopes of the San Francisco Giants. Pinch-hitter Fred Lewis beat out a double-play grounder with the bases loaded to drive in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and five relievers shut down Arizona in the Giants' 5-4 victory over the Diamondbacks ...
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Stories of the Prophets DAY 8. Goliath Giants Hybrid Human Alien Nephalim G
2009-09-08 01:10:00 DAY 8The Stories of the Prophets is a videos series. Listen to the explanation of how each family member in the Family of Light was sent with a purpose to enlighten YOU! Land of Egypt Story of Truth pt 24 David Goliath Giants Hybrid Jinn Alchemy Anunnaki Nibiru Fallen Angels Sumeria Story of Truth pt 25 Solomon Temple Lord Animals Dimensions Secret Societies Wraith Demon Ring Wisdom Story of Truth pt 26 UFO Under Sea Objects Underwolrd Vampires Drain Life Force Light Holy Energy DAY 7 DAY 9 Once viewers have watched all the stories they will begin to experience supernatural ability and have an intuitive sense of the unseen ...
By: Hot Conflict
Bears In Haiku: Bears 17, Giants 3
2009-08-23 17:03:00 A scene Bears fans hope is repeated many times this season (Photo courtesy of Chicago Tribune)So... 8 of 13...A win in his home debut...Should we be convinced?...
Three Giants Who Made One Giant Leap (Apollo 11?s 40th ? Part 3)
2009-07-22 13:00:00 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins are gods in the mythology of American aerospace. These three astronauts were the Olympian long-distance runners who won the longest race in human history: the two nation marathon to the surface of the Moon. Each crew mem
Michael Jackson Can Bring Down Giants - Nearly Puts the Web on a Hold
2009-06-26 18:24:00 26th June, the day when Elvis did his last concert, the day MJ took his last breath. Even though the occasion demands it the place is not perfect for a Michael Jackson obituary, so we won’t talk much on the glory and guts of him as a path breaking artist. However, the scene is perfectly set to talk about the impact of his death to prove a measure of his genius. According to BBC MJ’s death caused a mini halt on the prime services on the web: Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news first broke it feared it was under attack The microblogging service Twitter crashed with the sheer volume of people using the service TMZ, the popular celebrity gossip site that broke the story following a tip-off that a paramedic had visited the singers home also crashed Keynote Systems reported that its monitoring showed performance problems for the web sites of AOL, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and Yahoo And all this because of the speed at which news spread around that the singer ...
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Top Five Giants Stealing Twitter's Golden Eggs
2009-06-13 16:06:00 Fee Fie Foe Fum, I smell wampum in Twitterdom! Twitter is like the goose that laid the golden eggs, allowing the giants of industry to run off with all the spoils! Has Twitter sat in its Ivory Tower too long trying to figure out the "perfect" business model, while the corporate kingpins are in the counting house counting all their returns?
Giants Find Value In Day 2
2009-06-11 00:01:00 After grabbing the top prep arm in the draft, and a couple of power bats on day one of 2009 MLB Amateur draft, the Giants entered day two looking for the best possible value they could find. They grabbed one of the best closers from the collegiate level over the last few years, a high school power arm that could develop into another hard-throwing, elite starting pitching prospect and a few big bats that could inject the organization with some pop.With their first pick in day two, the Giants took RHP Jason Stoffel, a hard-throwing closer out of Arizona. Stoffel was considered a possible first-round pick coming into the year, but he wasn't as effective this year as he was the last few which was why he fell to the Giants in the fourth. Stoffel throws 91-94 MPH with good command and a decent, hard curveball. He's pitched in some big games and chaotic atmosphere's over his years at Arizona and he's shined in those situations, which should translate well into late relief in the major ...
Giants Take Zach Wheeler At 6
2009-06-10 00:56:00 Well, the 2009 MLB Amateur draft has officially begun, and the Giants first pick is in the books. I think they were really hoping that either Tyler Matzek or Zach Wheeler ended up falling to them at 6, and when the Orioles surprised by taking Matt Hobgood at 5, the Giants then had their choice as to which prep arm to take. Goes to show you just how unpredictable this MLB draft can be.I talked a little about Zack Wheeler a few posts back here but I really thought they were leaning towards Tyler Matzek, especially after the lefty from Capistrano, California touched 99 mph on the gun in a recent high school playoff game. However, Wheeler was generally considered to be the slightly better arm of the two, and I think the Giants may have been leaning toward Matzek thinking that Wheeler would be taken between picks 3-5. Wheeler is a big, power arm from Georgia who was widely thought of as the best high school pitcher in this draft (and there's about 6 of them that are all really close). T...
Lincecum/Giants Shine Through Rain
2009-06-08 22:32:00 Today's going to be a little unique here at the Giants Baseball Blog. Since the Giants have been on a roll, I wanted to definitely get a post out discussing what's been going on with them this weekend. However, since the draft takes place tomorrow, this is my last chance to get my final take in on that, so I will post a mini-mock draft post in addition to this one, so be sure to scroll down and check that out.The Giants took the third game of the Giants/Marlins 4-game set on Sunday, waiting out an hour long rain-delay and getting a gutsy outing from "The Franchise". Tim Lincecum went 7 1/3 innings on Sunday, allowing two runs in the eighth inning on a rare mistake to Chris Coghlan hit out of the yard. Lincecum didn't necessarily have his best stuff on Sunday, as he walked 4 and only struck out 4, but he figured out a way to get out of trouble when he had to and really was cruising until Coghlan ran into that hanging breaking ball. Timmy's recent outing finally got his era where ...
Giants Mini-Mock Draft
2009-06-08 21:12:00 The MLB Amateur draft starts Tuesday afternoon, and this will be the last chance I get to touch on the draft before the Giants take their first pick tomorrow. Since I'm not too familiar with all the prospects entering the draft, and really only have seen stuff on the top 200 or so prospects, I can only project out the early part of the draft. And since we're a Giants blog, I'm going to stick with strictly Giants picks, so here we go:Giants Early-Round Mock Draft:Pick #6: LHP Tyler Matzek, Capistrano HS, California: There's a chance both Alex White and Matzek will both be available here, but after seeing how high-schooler's Tim Alderson and Madison Bumgarner responded after being taken early in 2007, the Giants may want to go that route again. Matzek is clearly the best high school arm available in the draft. He's got picture perfect mechanics and already throws 93 mph with consistency. Ohh yeah, he's got a nasy curve to go along with it. He's another control freak, just like...
Giants Salvage Finale, Back to the Road
2009-05-18 22:04:00 The Giants avoided getting swept by taking Sunday's game vs. the Mets. They finally got a starting pitching performance like they're used to as Matt Cain won his fourth game of year and dropped his era to 2.65.Cain didn't just get it done on the mound either. He helped his own cause by driving in the Giants second and final run of the game with a single in the fifth. In addition to throwing 6 shutout innings, while allowing only 2 hits (although he did surrender 5 walks), Matty C was on base twice with that RBI single and a walk of his own. Cain's WHIP is still a tad high at 1.38 as he's walked at least 4 batters in 4 of his last 5 starts. Once Cain can get more consistent with his command, he's going to take another stride forward, but he's still showing the ability to get outs and keep runners off the board, amazingly, regardless of the amount of free passes he's allowing. five walks in 6 innings pitched is a high number, and you need to have pretty darn good stuff to be a...
Giants Take Another Series
2009-05-13 23:46:00 Despite losing to the Nationals at AT&T Park on Wednesday, the Giants ended up taking two of three games from Washington and won yet another series. The team has been playing very good baseball of late and surprisingly, haven't lost a series since their first road trip to Southern California in mid-April.The main reason why the Giants have gone 16-7 over their last 23 ballgames is because of their pitching, both starting and relief, but the offense really came alive in the first two games of the Nationals series. The offense combined to score 20 runs in the first two games, despite getting shutout in the third. Not only were the 20 runs the most the Giants have scored in back-to-back games this season, it's the most they've scored in a series this year, period. The two guys who really carried the Giants offense in the series were Randy Winn and Pablo Sandoval. The Giants young third basemen had 6 hits (3 for extra bases) along with 5 RBI and a huge walk-off home run that won ...
Giants Beat LA, Again
2009-05-11 00:15:00 The Giants have come a long way since their first road-series of the seaosn, in which they were swept by these Dodgers in LA. With Tim Lincecum on the mound, the Giants completed their second straight series victory over the Dodgers, and indeed, have shown that they are a much different team than the one that started the season.It's no secret that the Giants struggle to score consistently. They're ranked last in the NL in runs scored, despite the fact that they're 2 games above .500. The reason why they are where they are is simple; they can flat out pitch, as evident by another series win, despite scoring just 6 runs in 3 games. Tim Lincecum didn't have his best stuff Sunday, but his 6 innings pitched, 8 k's and 3 earned runs on 6 hits marked his fifth straight quality start and certainly good enough to win. Lincecum left the game with the Giants down a run in the seventh, and the pressure was on the Giants' bats in order for him to avoid an L and the bats answered the bell. ...
Manny's Suspension Boosts Giants' Hopes
2009-05-08 22:34:00 I can't deny that the Manny Ramirez 50-game suspension bodes well for the Giants. Ramirez was arguably the National League's most valuable player through the month of April and early May. However, it's certainly no ticket to the postseason for this team, and they shouldn't be treating it as such.Most of the Bay Area sports media beat the Ramirez story to a pulp on Thursday, but every single one of them were sending the same message; This now opens a door for the Giants in the division. I agree with this to an extent, but let's not forget, Ramirez is only going to be gone until July 3rd, so the Dodgers will have him back in plenty of time (3 months to be exact) to get back to where they are now. Also, the Dodgers were really taking off and kind of separating themselves from the rest of the National League, and they aren't sitting at 21-9 just because of the mercurial Ramirez. The team has talent up and down the roster. They still have Andre Eithier, Matt Kemp, Russel Martin, Ja...
Giants' Bullpen Thriving
2009-05-06 23:43:00 The season is officially a month old, and one unit that has been rock solid for the Giants, and hasn't gotten much pub, has been their bullpen. Brian Wilson is nailing things down in the ninth, and pretty much everyone who gets him the ball has done their job's so far.The two newest additions to the Giants bullpen, Jeremy Affeldt and Bob Howry, have both done what the Giants have asked of them early on in the season. Affeldt is carrying a 3.18 era on 11.1 innings this year and striking out a batter an inning. Howry is at 4.35, but has really only had one bad outing in his 12 appearances. Merkin Valdez also looks completely healthy and is throwing the ball the way the Giants were hoping he would after missing most of last season with elbow issues. Those three, along with Brian Wilson, are doing their job, which is kind of what was expected of them coming in. What wasn't really expected though was that Brandon Medders and Justin Miller, two minor league invites to spring training, ...
Chicago Cubs v. San Francisco Giants 1:20 CT/2:20 ET CSN
2009-05-05 18:23:00 Admit it, this is a lot better than a week ago While Cubbie Nation attempts to recover from the shock of discovering that Ryan Theriot is now a power hitter, the Cubs prepare to take on the Giants once again. On the upside, most HRs hitters don't steal a ton of bases. Perhaps if Ryan begins to see himself as the next post-1998 Barry Bonds, he'll also imagine a bum knee and will quit trying (and failing) to steal bases. All we can do is pray and wait. And while we're waiting, I would like to take this opportunity to mock those in my fantasy league who made fun of me for taking Theriot with my final pick. ppppbbbblllllllt! Today it's Sean Marshall (0-1) against Tim Lincecum (2-1). Normally, I would say that we're not going to hit anything today, but with the new-and-improved Power Theriot, all things are now possible. The game is on CSN, but for those unfortunate souls living outside beautiful Chicagoland, we'll make sure to let you know when to shower Theriot with roses. Lin...
(Very Huge) Battle of the Giants, New Threadless T-shirt by Alex Solis
2009-05-05 03:17:00 It was a quite night. Some people were ready for bedtime, while others were going back from work. Suddenly, people were shocked with a huge bang sound. Buildings fell and fire started everywhere -- people screamed, it was a chaos. The Moon, stars and burning city were the eye witness of battle of the giants between King Kong and The Robot. Nobody knew what started the battle and who can stop the battle -- perhaps Ultraman or Godzilla? But they knew they were not going to sleep that night.Thanks to Alex Solis and Threadless members, who voted for this design, for bringing this design to the earth and let us witness the battle of the century. This design is 8-color screen printed on American Apparel tee with plastisol ink and a chino additive for softness; available for $18 in guys, girls and kids size. Anyway, who do you think will win the battle?
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Chicago Cubs @ San Francisco Giants: 7:05 CT/8:05 ET WCIU
2009-05-05 01:01:00 Keeping the streak alive ---photo by oscar alexander At the 3:00 minute mark comes the advice I live my life by: "Albert, you pierced the toast. So what?" So Zambrano is on the DL. So what? He hasn't been that great lately, anyway. And how do we know that Randy Wells isn't the next Cy Young? We'll never know if we leave him to rot in the minors, right? RIGHT? WELl HE COULD BE!!!!!!! What? We called up Bobby Scales? Doesn't he play 3B? Isn't ARam due back today? Uh . . .okay. Alas, Friday is long way off. Before we get there, we have to get past the Giants, who have a record almost identical to ours, even though I seriously couldn't name a single person on the Giants right now. Is Edgar Renteria out ther now? I don't even know. I guess I'll recognize some people when they come up to bat. Ryan Dempster (1-1, 5.40) takes on Jonathan Sanchez (1-1, 2.60). A lot of baseball types are looking to see if Dempster can repeat his stellar 2008 season, but we here at LOHO have our eyes...
Giants Get Back At Dodgers
2009-05-01 01:43:00 Like they did to San Diego during their last home stand, the Giants got some revenge on their other southern California foe LA Dodgers at AT&T Park this week. The Giants didn't sweep the Dodgers, but they took 2 out of 3 in the series and looked much more capable of matching up with the NL West's elite team than they did in their showing in Los Angeles in the season's opening week.Tim Lincecum made his 3rd straight dominant outing, carrying a shutout into the seventh before surrendering a few hits and couple of runs. Lincecum's line for the day didn't look quite as good as he was throwing the ball, but he still got the win while going 7+ innings and striking out 8. "The Freak" has hit his grove after starting out slowly, and looks completely back on track now. In fact, the whole Giants rotation is really throwing the ball well, kind of like everybody expected them to coming into the year. Even Barry Zito has put together back-to-back quality outings and looks confident and ...
Giants Return Favor To Padres
2009-04-23 00:32:00 After getting swept by the Padres on their visit just last week, the Giants got a chance to redeem themselves vs. their foes from Southern California, and they did just that.The Giants swept the Padres in their short two-game set in San Francisco and once again, got lights-out performances out of their starting pitchers, but their offense actually showed up on Tuesday night as well. Well, not the whole offense, but one guy in particular who had looked sluggish in the early going and is already drawing criticism. That guy is Edgar Renteria. The shortstop officially arrived for the Giants in Tuesday nights game, providing his first multi-hit game in a Giants uni, along with his first home run. Renteria went 3 for 4 with a grand-slam and 5 RBI, leading the Giants to a 8-3 victory over the Padres. It's no secret that the majority of the baseball scouting world didn't agree with the contract Brian Sabean gave Renteria over the winter, and early on there, it was looking like they were r...
Giants try to pick up a free agent receiver and other pre draft notes
2009-04-20 02:06:00 Giants try to pick up a free agent receiver and other pre draft notes It seems that the reports hold some truth at least: The Giants want to swing a deal with the Browns to get Braylon Edwards, who is another talented but "difficult" to work with receiver. Edwards may have some problems working with new Browns and Ex Jets Head Coach Eric Mangini, which seems to be the main issue right now. The Browns want a #2 and a #5 pick in this draft, plus receiver Steve Smith. The Giants countered with the two picks plus receiver Dominik Hixon. What some people are missing is that Edwards isn't Burress. He's two+ inches shorter and 15 pounds lighter. Can he play the same "Jump Ball in the End Zone" game? Sure he can. But if Hixon also goes in the deal the Giants would still need to get another "taller" wide out in the Draft or Via Free Agency to help stretch the defensive backs.I'll cast my vote for Brian Robiskie early, or Ramses Barden late. I prefer to see a team built through the draft...
Giants Go Winless on Road-Trip
2009-04-18 00:48:00 The first road trip of the 2009 season couldn't have gone much worse for the Giants. They got swept in San Diego by a surprising Padres squad that is playing way better than they were expected too. Then they traveled an hour north to LA for three and things didn't get any better.The defense and starting pitching were both horrendous throughout the trip. Barry Zito threw better than his line showed in Thursday's finale at Dodger Stadium, but once again, defensive blunders put the Giants in an early deficit, and the offense couldn't make up for it. And it was another misplay by Fred Lewis in left-field that did Zito in. Lewis had a terrible road trip defensively, misplaying various fly-balls and costing the Giants numerous runs. Those mistakes rest solely on Fred Lewis. Now, I'm not saying Lewis was the reason the Giants lost the games, because that's not entirely the case. In order to win ballgames, you need to score runs, and the Giants really struggled to do that on the trip....
Giants Take Opening Series
2009-04-10 23:16:00 The Giants certainly looked like a rejuvenated ball-club in this first series of the 2009 season vs. the Brewers. Take away that one fastball Randy Johnson threw Yovanni Gallardo in Wednesday nights game and the Giants would have been looking at a 3-0 start. Nonetheless, they sit atop the NL West with the Rockies at 2-1 heading into play Friday.Matt Cain turned in the best performance of the three starting pitchers to throw so far on Thursday, throwing 7 innings of 4 hit ball while striking out 5. As good as Cain was on Thursday and Johnson was Wednesday, the talk of the series' surrounded the bullpen and offense. Both units look much better than the versions the Giants were trotting out there in 2008, already. Jeremy Affeldt and Bob Howry look like steady additions and Brandon Medders and Joe Martinez (get well soon!) have pulled their weight so far. The same can be said for the offense. The veterans are starting the year red hot and the youngsters have been doing their part as we...
Thursday Night Game Thread: Giants @ Cubs 9:35 CT/10:35 ET MLB Network, ml
2009-03-27 01:34:00 Hey Dish Network, a word? We have a problem, you and I. I've been subtley talking around the issue for weeks, hoping you'd take a hint. But, like everything else in our lives, you require a slap across the face and a call to your customer service center to realize that this relationship has run completely off the rails. When we first met, you were so different, so new. All I'd ever had before was cable, and you seemed so exciting. And I suppose you were attracted to my naivete and worship of the ground you walked on. Back then, it felt like it was you and I against the world. You kept watch over my every night from outside my window, and I, out of loyalty fenced the cable box that serviced the entire neighborhood into my backyard. Remember how we used to laugh every time the Comcast guy came to ask permission to enter our backyard to check the neighbors' cable lines? You introduced me to a whole world I hadn't know before: Science Channel, Fox Soccer Channel, Dateline ID. Back...
The Best REM Songs That Prove They Should Stand Among The Giants Of Rock An
2009-03-26 15:19:00 Where does REM fit into the rock'n'roll pantheon? As U2's mediocre new album sells only half of what they'd hoped, as Coldplay stands astride the World of Rock while making music that, let's be honest, is not rock-and-roll, as people continue, inexplicably, to pay sporadic attention to Nirvana and Pearl Jam...... and let's face it: Were shiny white suits, platform shoes, and flares any more or less embarrassing than flannel shirts, greasy hair, and cargo pants? No. Was the music put out by the "grunge" rockers of the early 90s any more or less influential than disco? No. Yet, it took about 35 minutes for people to begin making fun of disco; meanwhile, twenty years in, people are still pretending that grunge was "real" or "authentic" or whatever it is that makes people pretend to like grunge...As all that happens, REM gets ignored, really. They even got ignored by me when I set the world straight on what Rock & Roll actually is (as I did here, and here, and here, and ...
Giants Notes
2009-03-24 00:08:00 I wanted to break away from the divisional previews for a post because there has been a lot going on in Giants camp recently, including a game Monday which included appearances from both Randy Johnson and Tim Lincecum vs. the Mariners. Johnson didn't throw quite the way he wanted to, throwing only 3 innings, giving up 2 earned runs on 3 hits. Lincecum threw a little better as he was the second Giants starter to go 6 innings in an outing this spring, giving up 3 runs on 4 hits while striking out a batter. Bruce Bochy said that from here on out, starters are going to start getting into the 5th and 6th innings with more regularity as there is only about a week left on the Cactus League schedule. Another positive to come from Monday's game in Scottsdale was the play of Pablo Sandoval. The Giants 22 year-old third basemen hit his 3rd home run of the spring while going 3-4 Monday, raising his spring average to .442. Again, nobody is going to expect Sandoval to carry this into the regula...
2009 Giants Preview and Predictions
2009-03-11 23:49:00 I wanted to break away from the spring training jargon for a bit and I wanted to go ahead and do more of an in-depth preview of what the Giants will look like come opening day. I also am going to predict some of the key stats for the players. With our annual MLB team/divisional preview just around the corner, and opening day less than a month away, now is as good a time as any to take a closer look at the San Francisco Giants. Some of the final roster moves aren't set yet (as there still is 3 weeks of Cactus league to go still) but I'm going to go with my best guess.Lineup:1. RF- Randy Winn ( .288 avg., 11 hr's, 57 RBI, 89 runs, 21 sb's, .776 OPS)2. SS- Edgar Renteria (.282, 12 hr, 64 RBI, 79 runs, 9 sb's, .759 OPS)3. LF- Fred Lewis (.301, 17 hr, 76 RBI, 84 runs, 26 sb's, .817 OPS)4. C- Bengie Molina (.280, 15 hr, 77 RBI, 43 runs, 0 sb, .756 OPS)5. 3B- Pablo Sandoval (.277, 15 hr, 70 RBI, 62 runs, 5 sb, .783 OPS)6. CF- Aaron Rowand (.281, 16 hr, 74 RBI, 64 runs, 9 sb, .792 OP...
Giants' Varsity Handle A's
2009-03-09 01:47:00 The Giants had their first split-squad games of the spring on Sunday, and Bruce Bochy kind of divided the teams into A and B teams, or what I call the Varsity and JV squads.The Varsity, or the A team, shut down the Oakland Athletics as they were led by another Randy Johnson gem. The 6'10" lefty went 3 1/3 innings, allowing no runs on 2 hits and striking out 3, leading the Giants to a 10-1 victory of the A's. In that game, the Giants played most of the players who will be in the opening day line-up. Offensively, the Giants got solid outputs from Fred Lewis (2/3, 2b, 2 RBI and a run), Bengie Molina (1/2, hr, RBI) and Pablo Sandoval (1/3, RBI). They also got a nice game from Matt Downs, who started in right field while Randy Winn got the day off from the field and started at DH. Downs is another guy who has the versatility to play both the infield and outfield and should start the season in Fresno after hitting a combined .294 with 20 home runs and 82 RBI in 523 at-bats split between...
Johnson, Sandoval Lead Giants
2009-03-04 00:42:00 The Giants battled back for their first comeback win of the exhibition season on Tuesday, as they were led by a couple of guys who the team is expecting big things out of in '09.Randy Johnson struck out 7 batters in 3 innings as he faced his former employer (D-Backs) for the very first time. The lefty has now gone 5 innings this spring, allowing 1 run on 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 10 batters. Johnson made it very clear coming into spring training that he was feeling better than he had in years at that point and he was extremely excited to see how things were going to go because of it. I know it's only spring training, but the Unit has looked like the Unit of 5-10 years ago early on in spring. He had the place buzzing when he threw BP and bullpen sessions during spring practices, and apparently he isn't lying. Now I'm not expecting a full fountain of youth for Johnson here, and it's still kind of unclear how his back is going to take to pitching those cold nights on th...
Giants Spring Training Notes
2009-02-24 00:29:00 What has been a relatively quiet spring training in Scottsdale so far is about to start picking up. The Giants have a scheduled intresquad scrimmage planned for Tuesday, followed by Wednesday's Cactus league opener against the Indians.The only Giant who is leaving the team and heading off to the World Baseball Classic is Jonathan Sanchez. The Giants' 26 year-old lefty has been penciled in to start the Puerto Rican squad's third game of the tournament. The interesting thing here is that Sanchez is also battling the recovering Noah Lowry for the fifth starters spot in the Giants' rotation. Now, Sanchez had a leg up on Lowry before pitchers and catchers reported and absolutely nothing has changed. Sanchez's delivery has apparently been toned down and smoothed out a little bit which is hopefully going to keep him in the strike zone more often and he's looked in control in his first 2 sessions throwing to hitters. Lowry on the other hand, is still trying to work his way back to the...
Metaform - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (JUST / BSMNT, 2008)
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Giants Re-Sign Richie
2009-02-10 00:41:00 It took the weekend for Rich Aurilia to finally except, but the man who debuted for the Giants all the way back in 1995 will be back with the team this season. Now, Aurilia officially signed a minor league deal so he won't count against the 40-man roster during spring training, but unless he absolutely tanks, and others blossom, Rich will be back in the utility role for the Giants once again in 2009.I am not surprised by this move at all since it was well publicized that the Giants had a deal on the table for Richie. He can play first and third in a pinch and those are two places the Giants will likely be going young at in 2009 with Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa. The only question I have about this deal is that it is exactly like the deal the Giants signed Juan Uribe to back in late January and I don't think the Giants will end up having room for the both of them. Since Bruce Bochy is planning to carry a 5-man bench, that would likely lead to the team carrying 2 infielders, 2...
Giants Notes: Lowry Healthy
2009-02-08 01:02:00 The annual Giants Fanfest took place this weekend at AT&T Park and some pretty good news came out of it. The Giants trainers and manager Bruce Bochy declared that Noah Lowry is healthy and is on track to report with fellow pitchers and catchers to participate fully in workouts when spring training begins in a week.This is great news for Noah who tweaked his forearm last spring and it ended up costing him the whole 2008 season. I think a lot of people have forgotten how important Lowry is to the Giants starting rotation. Even after missing all of 2008, he still leads the team in wins since 2005. And if Lowry is indeed ready to go and shows so early on in the spring, it would provide the Giants with 6 legit options for a 5-man starting rotation. It's still unclear how Lowry will react to the daily grind of getting back into game shape so if you wondering why the Giants don't go off and deal Jonathan Sanchez for a hitter, that's part of the reason. However, I really don't expec...
Giants Sign Juan Uribe
2009-01-30 00:18:00 No, it's not earth-shattering news, in fact it's a move that doesn't really make much sense or significantly impact the team, but there is finally some movement on the Giants front to talk about. The Giants broke their month-long stretch of inactivity by signing infielder Juan Uribe to a minor league deal, according to SI.com. The Giants had been linked to Uribe earlier in the off-season as a possible fall-back option at shortstop, but after the signing of Edgar Renteria, it appeared the Uribe interest would go out the window. However, the Giants have been scouring the free-agent market for another utility player and apparently have settled on Uribe as an option. Now, Uribe isn't getting a major league deal, which means he's going to have to show up in Scottsdale and earn himself a roster spot. The 29 year-old brings the versatility to play 2nd and 3rd base in addition to shortstop. He's not a gold-glove caliber defender, but he's very serviceable at all three spots. He also...
3 Giants Headed For WBC
2009-01-20 22:52:00 Three Giants will have the honor of playing in the WBC for their respective countries. Both Bengie Molina and Jonathon Sanchez will be battery mates for the Puerto Rican squad, and young Pablo Sandoval will be behind the plate for the Venezuelan squad. NL Cy Young award winner Tim Lincecum was asked to play for the USA, but apparently has declined and will train with the Giants all spring. The WBC has gotten a lot of mixed reactions, but I am actually looking forward to it this time around. I am anxious to see what kind of talent is surfacing around the world. The big prize that came out of the WBC in '06 was Japan's former ace, Daisuke Matsuzaka and every team in baseball has a glimmer of hope at finding the next international sensation. To me, I see the WBC as a chance for the different parts of the world to display their talents and for this reason I have no problem with the tourney. Sure, It would make some more sense if it were held later on in the spring, but I think it's b...
Giants Lineup Analysis
2009-01-16 23:04:00 Things have been extremely quiet for the Giants since the calender turned to 2009 and without anything excitingly new to talk about, I figured I would go ahead and project out how the Giants roster will look come opening day with a little bit of player analysis in there. Instead of continuing to beat the rumor mill and the things that might happen, I wanted to go ahead and show what the Giants realistically should look like to start 2009. I am not planning on anything too earth shattering happening between now and opening day, but I do expect the Giants to add at least one more infielder and maybe another reliever to the mix. They have shown interest in Joe Crede and with Rich Aurilia now focusing on the Cubs, Crede or someone like Ty Wigginton could be picked up at any moment now.Lineup1. Randy Winn RF (Back to the leadoff role, the steady Winn could be in his final year in SF)2. Edgar Renteria SS (Giants hope he's got another couple of years like 2007 left in the tank)3. Pablo Sa...
Big Blue Fans Can Thaw Out with NY Giants 2007 Champs On a Caribbean Cruise
2009-01-15 03:33:00 Travel Lady Cruises Big Blue Fans Can Thaw Out with NY Giants 2007 Champs On a Caribbean Cruise Travel Lady Cruises Big Blue Fans Can Thaw Out with NY Giants 2007 Champs On a Caribbean Cruise Cruise down memory lane with the 2007 Super Bowl Champion NY Giants in March and thaw out from all this winter weather. Enjoy all of your favorite memories and highlights of the 2007 season with members of the NY ...
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Big Blue Fans Can Thaw Out with NY Giants 2007 Champs On a Caribbean Cruise
2009-01-15 03:33:00 Cruise down memory lane with the 2007 Super Bowl Champion NY Giants in March and thaw out from all this winter weather. Enjoy all of your favorite memories and highlights of the 2007 season with members of the NY Giants Super Bowl Champions team. Cruises, Inc. is offering this exclusive sailing for March 7-14, 2009 on ...Travel Lady Blog
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Big Blue Fans Can Thaw Out with NY Giants 2007 Champs On a Caribbean Cruise
2009-01-15 03:33:00 Cruise down memory lane with the 2007 Super Bowl Champion NY Giants in March and thaw out from all this winter weather. Enjoy all of your favorite memories and highlights of the 2007 season with members of the NY Giants Super Bowl Champions team. Cruises, Inc. is offering this exclusive sailing for March 7-14, 2009 on ...Travel Lady Blog
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Tech Giants Team on Education Push
2009-01-13 14:03:00 From CNET News.com: Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco plan to announce Tuesday that they are working together to help ensure that proper standards are created for measuring digital literacy. The three companies aren't coming up with the assessment criteria themselves, but rather bring
1/12/09 - No Tears for the Giants
2009-01-12 07:58:00 The Giants of this year can't compare with the Giants of last year. No Umenyiora, Strahan, and Plaxico. No offense. The Eagles looked good and compare favorably to both the Cards and AFC winner
Giants Should Move Past Manny
2009-01-07 23:52:00 There was an article published on both the Giants and Dodgers team pages that said both teams could back off their pursuit of Manny Ramirez. The Giants were more so following the market and haven't presented a formal offer for Manny. The Dodgers are most likely bidding against themselves at this point for his services as I highly doubt that Brian Sabean is going to continue monitoring this situation while there is other work to be done before Spring Training. The Giants still must add another infielder to the mix and hopefully that doesn't end up being Rich Aurilia. I still like the possibility of Ty Wigginton, as I have kind of pushed to sign the guy all winter long. He is a lot more productive at this point that Rich Aurilia is and he actually could force Bruce Bochy to play him eveyday when he gets on his hot streaks. Joe Crede has also been mentioned as a possibility for the Giants, but apparently his back is too much of a concern to warrant much of a contract and unfortunatel...
1/5/09 - On Eagles, Giants and Johnsons
2009-01-05 20:56:00 An analysis of the Eagles-Vikings game and the pitiful coaching Of Brad Childress. A look ahead on the Eagles-Giants contest and commentary on the Jets sham of a search for a head coach.
Giants Continue Shopping For A Bat
2009-01-05 01:51:00 Amidst all the talk and rumors, I don't think the Giants will end up with Manny. However, seeing that Sabean is looking into other options via free agency, maybe he settles on an Adam Dunn or Pat Burrell. Though I do hope I'm wrong, as neither of those guys are near the difference maker Manny is and both would want longer-term contracts than what ManRam will get. It obviously appears as if the Giants wouldn't mind adding another outfielder and they may have something up their sleeve (trade wise) if they do. I guess Dunn wouldn't be so bad if he came on a 2-3 year deal do to the depressed market, but I just don't see him wanting to come here as this park isn't the most attractive to left-handed power hitters. Burrell though, would be nothing more than a slower, more powerful but a less batting average version of Aaron Rowand. No thanks! At least Dunn will probably somehow manage to still pull off 35-40 home run seasons, even playing for SF. Barry Bonds did it, and Dunn has tha...
Giants Sign Randy Johnson
2008-12-31 00:00:00 I know it happened a few days ago, I was just waiting for another move to follow which is why I'm just now getting around to posting about it. I'm sure everyone who cares knows by now that Randy Johnson signed a 1 year, 8 million dollar deal with the Giants. I fully support this move as the pitching staff was a little overrated before this move (Outside of Cain and Lincecum, you didn't really know what you were going to get) but adding RJ into the mix for a year is a great move. He can still pitch obviously, as evident of his 2.41 era, and 8-5 record over the second half of last season. Put that together with the fact that he's now coming to pitch at a legitimate pitchers park for the first time in his career and we could see The Unit find a fountain of youth here. While he should be a fine pitcher here, he will be a great sounding board for the young power pitchers, and should be a solid overall team leader. Now, I'm not saying RJ's add is the one that puts the Giants over t...
Giants top 20 Prospects: GBB Edition
2008-12-26 22:38:00 John Sickels, who covers minor league ball for the Sports Bloggers Nation as well as minorleaguebaseball.com, came out with his annual top prospect list this past week and his Giants list had a few odd choices for his top 20. One of which was Waldis Joaquin ranked 9th. Joaquin has some upside and has a good young arm, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot more accomplished prospects in this organization that didn't make it onto the list, such as the Cal League's minor league pitcher of the year, Kevin Pucetas. I figured I would go ahead and rank the Giants top 20 prospects in the order I believe they should be at this point in time. Take into mind that I am not including any of the players who have debuted for the Giants (outside of Connor Gillaspie) so Pablo Sandoval, Travis Ishikawa, Nate Schierholtz, Emmanuel Burris, Sergio Romo etc. won't qualify for my list. Because I could literally make a whole post on each prospect, I am going to try and keep things short and simple. S... |
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