baseball

Opening Day Should Be a ‘BBQ with Your Friends’ Type of National Holiday
Opening Day used to be mean something. It was an unofficial holiday, and people from all walks of life would head to the ballpark or crowd around the TV and radio to listen to their local sluggers kickoff another season of baseball.

Life Advice from “The Reverend” Hunter Pence
Hunter Pence has become a goddamn legend here in San Francisco. He’s easily one of the most popular players on the Giants and he consistently kicks ass on the field. The folks over at Mode were able to catch up with him for this awesome candid interview. If you’re a Giants fan, you’re gonna love it.

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

Baseball As It’s Meant To Be Seen
I don’t care which way the mass populous votes or how beautiful AT&T Park is, I am an Oakland A’s girl through and through. I’ve been going to the Coliseum (O.co be damned!) since before I could walk and that ballpark is as real as it gets. It’s noisy, kind

FREE Opera at AT&T Park this Weekend
While it appears that our Giants will not be playing into October this season, you can enjoy that beautiful ballpark by the bay for FREE this weekend. I have attempted to get into Opera, and by attempted I mean I have fallen asleep at an Opera performance at least twice,

Tonight! SF Is Deserted; Celebrate with a Giants Game
In case you missed that memo, most of the rest of the free world is trekking out to the desert for Burning Man. This leaves the rest of us sane folks here in the city with little to do. But it also leaves tonight’s SF Giants game to attend without

Independence Day Essentials
If you’re new to America (fuck yeah), you might not know that tomorrow is the day when we take to backyards, parks, and baseball fields all over this great nation and blow shit up. This is a culturally significant celebration whose true meaning is more or less completely lost on

Brooklyn Cyclones: Baseball for Broke-Asses
No matter what sports team you like, you are definitely pissing other people off by liking them. I have been heckled on subways, streets and in Whole Foods for wearing my favorite team’s garb in NYC; I have doled it out also. BUT. I have found a magical sports loophole:

East Bay Unwrapped: Oakland Athletics 2011
Did you know that the Athletics have the best pitching in baseball right now? Or that Coco Crisp’s ‘fro is bigger than the Disney World Epcot ball? Or how about that there are some amazing deals and giveaways for the Oakland Athletics 2011 season? Well, even if you didn’t know