OUT OF LEFT FIELD

I'd like to thank the Giants for having special ceremonies on two of the last three Saturdays so that I had a great excuse not to write about the actual 2022 team. 🙂 That said, they did beat the Pirates last night, so good for them--nice outing for Carlos Rodón,...

Two weeks ago, anticipating the trade deadline, I riffed on Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," which begins "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..."  It was kind of obvious at that point for the Giants that the "two roads" could be labeled "buyers" or...

Author's Note: Today is Will Clark Day--his number 22 will be retired in a ceremony before tonight's game at Oracle Park. There have been many articles about Clark and special interviews with him this week, so rather than simply rehash those, I hope you'll indulge me...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler... --Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" This Robert Frost poem is one of my all-time favorites, and not just because it's a poem I actually understand(!). Frost was in his early...

Photo credit: ESPN The title for this post came from the latest Giants Talk podcast, and Alex Pavlovic said it twice. The podcast was recorded after the Diamondbacks series and before the Brewers series, but this Brewers series so far, in just two games, has perfectly...

Hello from sunny San Diego!  I've already said a lot in my last two columns about how badly the Giants are playing, as have others here and elsewhere. I'm not going to belabor it today, in part because I'm on vacation and want to get out and have some fun before I...

Note: Sorry this got long. I had a lot on my mind!     I started writing a regular column for TWG in 2017. You remember the 2017 season, the one where the Giants came perilously close to losing 100 games for only the second time in franchise history? The one...

I'm not sure what else to say about the Giants this week. After winning the second game in Pittsburgh last Saturday, they've lost five out of six. The first four losses were by one run, and last night's listless performance ended up 4-2 Reds. The fans, however, were...

The Giants had a very good week, going 5-1 against the Dodgers, Royals, and Pirates. Last night's 2-0 victory featured solo homers by Luis Gonzalez and Joc Pederson, eight sparkling two-hit innings by the good version of Carlos Rodón (more on him below), and a lovely...

Here is a link to the full game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSOBkQKiBs   The tenth anniversary of Matt Cain's perfect game is on Monday, June 13, but the Giants are celebrating it tomorrow (Sunday), and this is the weekend column, so I thought now would be...

It's about that time for a professor: finals and graduation are coming up this next week, and I'll be doing my final set of grades for this academic year.  The Giants are not exactly at the one-third mark for the 2022 season (at 28-23, they've played 51 games)--but...