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Weekend Wrap: Giants Not Done YET!
by Johnny Black Last week was fun. The Giants won 6 of 7 to inch towards .500 with a record of 75-78 after this weekend, and bounce back from a rough three months. September will be the Giants first winning month since April. Way to go Boys. Ok, I could be a curmudgeon and say it's too little too late but hell, I need some positives on this Sunday morning and the truth is the Giants are not yet...
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Weekend Wrap: Giants Not Done YET!
by Johnny Black Last week was fun. The Giants won 6 of 7 to inch towards .500 with a record of 75-78 after this weekend, and bounce back from a rough three months. September will be the Giants first winning month since April. Way to go Boys. Ok, I could be a...
Weekend Wrap: Phlores Phinishes Phillies
by Johnny Black I just cannot figure out this Giants team. Just when I was ready to make the next season and the Minor Leagues the focus of today's Weekend Wrap the Giants trash my plans with an impressive sweep of a strong Philadelphia Phillies ball club. Who'd a...
Weekend Wrap: Giants Get the Job Done
by Johnny Black The Giants are back at .500 thanks to a thrilling, come-from-behind, grab victory form the jaws of defeat type 8-7 win yesterday to sweep the Pirates. Thairo Estrada's two-run home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Giants...
Weekend Wrap: Bay Bridge Champs
by Johnny Black The Bay Bridge Series Look, I have friends who are, sadly, A's fans. I go to Berkeley and Oakland often. I dig the jazz scene. I dig the bookshops along Telegraph. But I am a San Franciscan through and through so I hate the A's. I hate it when the A's...
Weekend Wrap: Celebrating Will Clark Day and Two Wins
by Johnny Black First thing's first: Bay Area immortality #ForeverGiant pic.twitter.com/9cRJ1AtRxU — SFGiants (@SFGiants) July 31, 2022 "I am Will the Thrill Clark. I am part of San Francisco. And I am forever a Giant." 👏 pic.twitter.com/EmgusRTpVd — SF Giants on NBCS...
Weekend Wrap: Lost Angeles
by Johnny Black The people have spoke and boy are they unhappy! Here are comments from Andrew Baggarly's piece today: Raymond M. “The Giants are a deeply flawed team. You knew that before they got swept away in a four-game series at Dodger Stadium for the first time...
Weekend Wrap: Giants Head to All Star Break on High Note
by Johnny Black What a weekend ladies and gentlemen! This is the second week in a row I get to write about the Giants after two weekend wins. Plus, we have the first round of the MLB Draft to discuss and the Giants chose a very interesting two-player who may be the...
Weekend Wrap: Giants Escape San Diego With Two Beautiful Wins
by Johnny Black What a weekend ladies and Gentlemen! The Giants begin their four-game series in San Diego with two dis-spiriting losses on Thursday and Friday and are about to go under .500 to start the halfway point of the 2022 campaign when Carlos Rodon pitches the...
Weekend Wrap: Giants Upstaged by Dad Eating Popcorn
by Johnny Black My first words this Monday should be Happy Independence Day everyone! Let's celebrate our great nation and remember all the beautiful things about the home of the brave and the land of the free. Now Back to baseball. Greek Giant wrote in his White...
Weekend Wrap: Giants Seeing Red
by Johnny Black I wouldn't call this a lost weekend exactly but it was not good, Giants fans. Tell Me How You Really Feel, Giants Fans In fact, my team hit the ballpark recently and read Baggarly's latest column on the Giants, the ownership and the in-game experience....
Weekend Wrap: Giants Win Series in Pittsburgh But Get Suwinski’d In the Process
by Johnny Black Suwinski'd: Verb, the phenomenon of giving up three homers in a game to a player who coming into the game had 8 career long balls. Yesterday the Giants lost 4-3 when Jack Suwinski hit his third homer of the game in the bottom of the ninth inning right...
Sweeping the Bums Out of San Francisco
by Johnny Black That's what I call a relaxing San Francisco weekend: Sweep the Dodgers and get back into the thick of the National League West Divisional race as the Giants celebrated the tenth anniversary of Matt Cain's perfect game with Cain and his family in...