The Annual Anti-Predictions Post
Okay, it’s the annual anti-predictions post! (I’ve never actually done it before, but I did make Hank Schulman do it last year. So it’s annual starting now.) Anti-predictions, in case you’re...
View ArticleLadies and Gentleman, Opening Day.
Ladies and gentlemen, Opening Day: (Via @CarmenKiew on Twitter.) It wasn’t exactly the Opening Day we were all hoping for, but it was OPENING DAY so that pretty much made up for it, at least to me....
View ArticleThrowback Tuesday, I Guess?
Came across this picture of me in the cheap seats with my cinnamon roasted walnuts. When is the home opener again? I mean, baseball’s great and all. But I want some cinnamon roasted walnuts. I like...
View ArticleOn Grapeseed Oil and Olive Garden
So, look. I’ve never been Olive Garden. I’m maybe just a little bit (a little bit?) snobby about food, although I don’t eat samples at the little gourmet stands in the grocery store anymore because...
View ArticlePotential Last Post Ever, Plus Why I Wouldn’t Let Bruce Bochy Design My Bath Rug
I know I’m in the minority here, but I feel I need to say it: I think World Series rings are ugly. The whole idea is perfectly nice and I understand the symbolic importance and the ceremony was...
View ArticleThe Rockies Series and Things
San Francisco woke up this morning (it is not a city that never sleeps, see) and decided to have the most picture perfect weather imaginable, so it couldn’t have been a more glorious day for the final...
View ArticleThe Completely True and Previously Untold Story of Matt Kemp
Matt Kemp doesn’t like people to know this, but he was a total hippie, man. He was actually there during the Summer of Love in 1967. Pictures or it didn’t happen? It happened. He even starred in a...
View ArticleKarma and Manic Panic and Wookiees
I distinctly remember writing a blog post called 10 Possible Reasons People Walk Off Against the Giants So Much last June. It’s May 9th and karma is proving that it exists and if you haven’t been to...
View Article“It’s Not Always Gonna Be Sunshine and Roses.”
“It’s not always gonna be sunshine and roses,” said Ryan Vogelsong after today’s game – was it a game, though, – against the Blue Jays. (So I was like, well it’s not always gonna be, but how about it...
View ArticleHibernation and Things
So as you guys know, I generally hibernate in the winter, but this year it’s stretched all the way into – er, is it June already? Apparently so. I haven’t been blogging, but I have been writing...
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