Lane Kiffin in one of his final moments as head coach of USC in 2013. by DrLefty A press conference was scheduled on Thursday at 10 a.m., and I got all excited, but…no. It was USC announcing the hiring of their new athletic director. Oops. Wrong sport, wrong loyalty. Now…
by DrLefty One of the stranger World Series I can remember ended on Wednesday, October 30. Anyway, congrats to the Nationals and especially to #ForeverGiant Hunter Strickland who, improbably, has won TWO World Series rings with different teams. You can read more about the Nationals’ quirky against-the-trends win in Greek…
Madison Bumgarner acknowledges fans at AT & T Park after pitching a shutout in Game 5 of the World Series, October 26, 2014 by DrLefty It’s been quite a week in the baseball world, and when I woke up today, I realized that it’s the last weekend of baseball…
by DrLefty Since there’s not much news about the Giants this week other than managerial rumors–and Greek Giant already covered that topic–I thought I’d riff a bit on the surprise story of the 2019 postseason–the NL Champion Washington Nationals. I’ve never been a fan or hater of the Nats in…
(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) by DrLefty Around this time last year I complained in a post that the early rounds of the playoffs had been boring. (Not everyone loved my take on this.) I concluded by saying this: I don’t want to watch sweeps or shutouts. I want twists, turns,…
Dereck Rodriguez looks confused. Photo credit: NBC Sports Bay Area by DrLefty I know we’re in the middle of Division Series playoffs, and I’m sure we’ll return to those threads, but before the Giants’ season moves too far into the rearview mirror, I thought I’d take us on an edited…
Photo credit: Associate Press by DrLefty I’m sorry for being a day late with this one. As I mentioned, we flew to Vegas on Friday to see the Eagles’ Hotel California show. Standing in line at the MGM Grand to get into the arena for the concert, we saw this…
by DrLefty Baseball is funny. This could be considered a terrible week for the Giants, the week in which they were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention for the third year in a row. (But hey–at least that moment came in the third week of September this time! In 2017, I…
by DrLefty After the desultory series the Giants put on for their home fans against the Pittsburgh Pirates this week, I’d already decided that if the Sacramento River Cats completed their sweep of the Round Rock Express (Astros) in the Pacific…
Full box here by DrLefty The game began with some dreary statistics, intoned by announcer Jon Miller. Clayton Kershaw’s sparkling career record against the Giants. Jeff Samardzija’s record of futility at Dodger Stadium, never having won a game there despite having pitched reasonably well. The Dodgers on the verge of…