4 days ago- With the 2008 All-Star Game tucked safely into the history books, the Giants officially go back on the clock in their quest to rebuild the club into a championship contender.
19 days ago- A little more than half a season in the Giants’ 2008 bank and I think it is worth posing this question: Are we watching the leftover year from the Barry Bonds era or the inaugural year of next era of Giants baseball?
20 days ago- It’s always sad to see a great player lose his special skills while still unwilling to acknowledge that. Willie Mays lost his home run stroke three years before he retired and famously misjudged a fly ball in the 1973 World Series.
51 days ago- Changes in the front office could mean a brighter future for the Giants — if general manager Brian Sabean doesn’t put too much importance on the limited success the team has had this season by playing veterans.
65 days ago- The question of the day: Who will the Bay Area media blame for Brian Sabean’s mistakes now that Giants managing general partner Peter Magowan is retiring?
66 days ago- As he rides off into the sunset after retiring as the managing general partner and club president of the Giants, Peter Magowan will be missed by many, and his significant contributions to Bay Area baseball will be duly noted. Having said that, as his horse disappears over the ridge and into the dusk, let me now say this: One down — and many, many more to go.
68 days ago- Some Giants fans say Peter Magowan’s name has been tied too closely with baseball’s steroids scandal. Others say the longtime executive is an old man on a slumping team and it’s about time he moves on.
71 days ago- Giants manager Bruce Bochy knows the Giants have to develop their younger players, but he also knows that a manager is judged on his won-lost record, so he has a challenging balancing act this season.
75 days ago- It was the year of the first transatlantic phone call, the year when radio frequencies were regulated for the first time. Charles Lindbergh completed the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris that year.
82 days ago- I have to give the Giants credit. I didn’t think they’d bring a single moment of baseball bliss to the Bay Area this season. Or next. Maybe not even in the one after that.