Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a field day with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park, former college baseball player Mayor Gavin Newsom: 1) went 0-for, not hitting anything pitched to him; 2) was on the losing side of the 13-8 score for the National League 3) hit a pop-up, which was promptly palmed by Dancing with the......

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We went away for a long weekend last week, all happy and satisfied over the state of les Noir et L'Orange. They had just taken two from the Fish with the Pirates coming into town for a four-game weekend series. Hello, Big Giants Run. Then we came back from Tahoe only to discover that the Giants wound up losing three out of four games to the Pirates. As in the last place, cellar dwelling Pirates. As in the well recognized worst franchise in the National League Pirates. At home. And suddenly a home series looking as easy as Lindsey Lohan at a party at Koi turned into one of those nightmare type weekends that make you want to never leave your apartment. ...

DTL">two-out-of-three games on the road against the best team in the National League will get you-- Giants bloggers are actually experiencing glee. And why not? They did take two from the Mets in three incredibly tough, well-fought games, the game on Sunday being one of those only in baseball epics that skirts the line between high comedy and high tragedy, something that happens when you blow two leads late and have a starting pitcher used as a pinch-hitter late in the game. The starting pitching is coming along, the bullpen has steadied (excepting Benitez's choke job), mighty Mo comes of the DL today, and the Giants start a stretch where sixteen out of nineteen games are against losing teams. Here comes the Big Run. Well, not so fast. ...

We continue with our raging discussion on this year's upcoming baseball season. The rest of the award-winning SFist sports desk will join in as soon as their stupid day jobs let them. Oh, how we long for the days when we were merely crack monkey's chained to computers in Jackson's basement dungeon. Anyways, part I can be seen here and Part 2 here. SFist Chris

The National League West?

With the start of the upcoming baseball season less than a week away, SFist's sports desk will try and break the new season down for y'all, round-table, free-form, discussion style. In the next few days, we'll debate the winners, the losers, and all the in-betweens. This discussion could be great, it could be lame, it could be meh. We guess we'll find out ...

The A's have lost 8 games in a row, and 11 of their last 12. The A's are 9 games below .500. The A's have been outscored, in 2005, by every team in the American League and by every team in the National League. National League teams only have 8 hitters in their lineups, to American League teams' 9. The A's expected Rich Harden to turn into Tim Hudson this season, but this isn't......

Not to hit you over the head too much with Giants news in the middle of November, but it seems worthwhile to note that Barry Bonds has been named National League Most Valuable Player for the fourth straight year, making that seven times total. No one else has ever been MVP more than three times. Say what you will about the ongoing steroid controversy, but Bonds is a ridiculously good baseball player. It's undeniable that......

Although, after getting crushed 8-3 by the Cardinals yesterday, the Los Angeles Dodgers haven't actually won a post-season game since beating the A's in the 1988 World Series, giving them an unmitigated sixteen year losing streak in the playoffs, you gotta give them credit for just barely edging out the Giants and winning the National League West this year. Well, maybe not under most circumstances, but if you made a bet with LAist about the......

The Cubs and Dodgers both lost last night, but, in one of the most painful games of the year, so did the Giants. To make matters worse, the Astros won, thereby giving themselves the lead in the NL Wild Card race. For those of you who don't pull your own teeth, or at least submit yourself to the torture of watching the end of crucial late-season baseball games, we'll give you a rundown of how......

Sunset this evening marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, considered by many to be the most important holiday of the Jewish year....