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  It turns out that Brandon Crawford and Mike Krukow have the same birthday, January 21, and that Krukow is exactly 35 years older than Craw. So on Friday, #35 turned 35, and Kruke turned 70!  Happy Birthday to both of them! I saw the amazing photo above on...

Research shows that planning a trip gives people almost as much pleasure as taking the trip itself. That may have been true pre-COVID, but now I'm not so sure. I've had to unravel a couple of great trips since March 2020, and it absolutely takes some of the fun out of...

It's hard to get very enthusiastic about baseball right now. Ahead this weekend are the long-awaited return of Klay Thompson to the NBA and the 49ers' must-win (probably) game against the LA Rams. There hasn't been a whisper of news about anything related to baseball...

It's been fashionable over the last week or so--and even over the last few years--to spend the final days of the old year bashing that year and seeing every bit of bad news as an example of how awful that particular year was. For example, Betty White passed away...

It's the Saturday before Christmas, major league baseball has been shut down for weeks due to the owners' lockout of the players, and-- I got nothing. But the biggest sports news of the week--yes, bigger than COVID cancellations in the NFL--was Stephen Curry's...

This is a tough time to be a baseball writer, especially one who has to do it for a living. Under normal circumstances, by which I mean "up through 2019," we'd be talking about the Winter Meetings and the Rule 5 draft this week. There might have been a big trade or...

In last week's column, I ended by musing how odd it was that one Saturday we'd be in the thick of frenetic Hot Stove activity and know that by the next one, we'd be looking at nothingness due to the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the...

  It's been another eventful week in Giants Nation. Recently retired Buster Posey earned two more honors for his tremendous 2021 season--NL Comeback Player of the Year (the second time he won the award) and second-team all-MLB, along with Kevin Gausman, who now...

It's been another busy week for the Giants, including the widely expected announcement that Gabe Kapler won the NL Manager of the Year Award, that Brandon Belt accepted his qualifying offer and will return for at least one more year with the Giants, that Brandon...

This feels like an unusual offseason so far, at least compared to recent ones. Over the past few years, we could go weeks without hearing a whisper of Giants news. This week, though? Something everyday. Greek Giant already wrote about Brandon Crawford's fourth Gold...

"What Comes Next?" is a song in the musical "Hamilton," and it's sung by King George III, who serves as the show's comic relief. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and their compatriots have succeeded in defeating the powerful British and winning the Revolutionary...

Why is there a picture of a very young Madison Bumgarner at the top of this post? Because Halloween is the anniversary of one of the coolest ever San Francisco Giants memories, non-trophy category. On Sunday, October 31, 2010, 21-year-old rookie Madison Bumgarner made...