Bay Area Sports Giants Hire College Coach Tony Vitello as New Manager, First College Coach to Jump Straight to MLB Manager SF Giants president Buster Posey is taking a big swing by hiring the first ever college coach with no MLB experience whatsoever as the team’s new manager, as University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello will now manage the Giants.
Bay Area Sports Giants Fire Manager Bob Melvin, After Two Seasons of Mediocre At-Best Baseball Giants president Buster Posey has decided that .500 baseball is not going to cut it in the same division as the star-studded Dodgers, firing manager Bob Melvin Monday morning just as the Giants wrapped up their 2025 season.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Only Netflix Subscribers Will Be Able to Watch the Giants’ Opening Day Next Season Brock Purdy will likely be starting for the 49ers again Sunday; some woman put billboards along the Peninsula asking if anyone will marry her; and you will need to have a Netflix subscription if you want to watch the Giants’ Opening Day game in 2026.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Giants Get Into Bench-Clearing Brawl In First Inning, But Still Win Eighth of Their Last Nine Games Your San Francisco Giants are suddenly red hot and back in the Wild Card race, after a Tuesday night game that developed into a bench-clearing brawl just two batters into the game.
Arts & Entertainment The Giants are Doing a ‘Pokémon Go Drone Show’ After Tonight’s Game Pokémon catchers report for training after Friday night’s Giants-Orioles game at Oracle Park, as the team has lined up a massive “Pokémon Go Drone Show” so you can peek at giant Pikachus flying through the sky.
SF News Saturday Links: CHP Arrests BMW Driver Who Posted Alleged 170 MPH Joyride Videos Online Over 20 nations are now condemning Israel's expansion plans; Giants pitcher Kai-Wei Teng dedicated the first win of his career last night to his dad; and a man was arrested after posting videos of his BMW M4 speeding at 170 mph.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants Get Trolled Over Steph Curry Bobblehead That Looks Nothing Like Steph Curry Saturday’s “Steph Curry Day” promotion gave purported Steph Curry bobbleheads to thousands of fans, but you could forgive these fans for being confused and wondering who the heck this bobblehead is supposed to represent.
Bay Area Sports Giants Play the A’s in Their Rinky-Dink Sacramento Stadium for the First Time This Weekend The magic is definitely gone from the old Bay Bridge Series now that the A’s are no longer on the other side of the Bay Bridge, but your San Francisco Giants play their first-ever series at Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park this weekend.
SF News Saturday Links: At Tahoe Trial, Former Lover Says Ex-MLB Player Admitted to Shooting Wife’s Mom A Florida man nabbed at SFO was convicted of wire fraud after posing as a flight attendant to score free flights; the CA Farm Bureau is condemning ICE raids targeting farmworkers; and the Tahoe murder trial of ex-MLB player Daniel Serafini has brought new details to light.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Giants Win In a Walk-Off On Wacky, Slapstick In-the-Park Home Run The final play of Sunday’s 3-2 Giants win was a blooper reel for the ages, as the Texas Rangers committed multiple comical errors allowing Heliot Ramos an in-the-park home run, making for the most hilarious baseball play of the season so far.
Bay Area Sports Shockingly, the Red-Hot SF Giants Have the Best Record In Major League Baseball, For the Moment No one saw this coming! Your San Francisco Giants suddenly have the best record in baseball, ahead of the superstar-studded, mega-salaried LA Dodgers and New York Yankees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Win Opening Day Game With Ninth Inning Home Run The waterfront Chevys in Emeryville might become a Benihana; that 'Bigballs' DOGE kid has a history of cybercrime; and you’ll want to see this video of the Giants winning their opener with a two-run, ninth inning homer.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants Season Preview: It’s the Dodgers’ World, Can Buster Posey Ruin It for Them? Giants legend and fan favorite Buster Posey is now running the team's baseball operations, but as the new season starts Thursday, he faces a challenging landscape where the defending World Champion bum Dodgers keep getting richer with superstar talent.
Bay Area Sports Video: Enormous Coca-Cola Bottle at Giants’ Ballpark Gets Sweet New Animated LED Lighting Set-Up Eagle-eyes have noticed that there’s been unexplained scaffolding around the oversize Coca-Cola bottle at Oracle Park. The Giants just gave a preview of what these upgrades are all about, and that Coke bottle will now have animated LED light displays on it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Giants Have Signed Pitching Ace Justin Verlander The Palisades Fire is wreaking absolute havoc in Southern California; that long-promised ability to just tap your debit card to pay transit fare is being delayed indefinitely; and the Giants just acquired three-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Justin Verlander.
Bay Area Sports This Weekend Is the Last-Ever A’s-Giants ‘Bay Bridge Series’ Before the A’s Leave Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
Bay Area Sports New SF Giants Promotions Include VIP Cuervo Seats, Plus $1000 Championship Jackets There’s a new contest where you could win four VIP seats into Giants games from Cuervo tequila, and the Giants are also pushing commemorative jackets from their last World Series title, for about a thousand bucks.
Bay Area Sports Video: Stars Come Out for Willie Mays’s Celebration of Life at Giants Ballpark Everyone from Spike Lee to Bill Clinton to Barry Bonds and plenty more came out Monday for a star-studded two-and-a-half-hour tribute to the late Giants great Willie Mays at Oracle Park, paying a joyful homage to the “Say Hey Kid.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Giants Cracking Down on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Carts Outside Oracle Park Isn’t the unpermitted sale of bacon-wrapped hot dogs the most victimless crime imaginable? The SF Giants and the city’s Department of Public Health feel otherwise, and have launched a new wave of enforcement against the hot dog carts.
Bay Area Sports Spike Lee Pops By Willie Mays Shrine at Oracle Park: ‘I Had To Pay My Love And Respect In Person’ Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee was among the many who paid homage to the late Willie Mays at Mays’s Oracle Park statue Wednesday, so who knows, maybe Spike Lee will show up at the ballpark for Thursday night’s free showing of Giants’ Negro Leagues tribute game.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants Legend Willie Mays Has Died at 93 The “Say Hey Kid” and all-time greatest Giant Willie Mays passed away Tuesday at the age of 93, leaving a legacy of 24 All-Star appearances, countless broken racial barriers, and a statue at the SF ballpark by which he will always be remembered.
Bay Area Sports Surging Giants Now in Thick of Wild Card Race, Nearly Come to Blows as Benches Clear Against Phillies We almost got a good brawl in Wednesday’s Giants game against the Philadelphia Phillies, but more importantly, the slow-starting Giants have now won 10 of their last 13 and are right in the Wild Card hunt.
Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
