sports

14 Feb 2024

Jorge Soler, a Legit Free Agent Power Bat, is Coming to The SF Giants

As I tossed and turned Tuesday morning I flipped on KNBR to help drown out the horns and nonsense that is the morning commute on Van Ness. That’s when I heard it! The Murph and Marcus Show brought to my and every other listener’s attention that the San Francisco Giants

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26 Apr 2023

How Apple TV+ Ruined an SF Giants Tradition

There is nothing more American than baseball: groups of friends and fans getting ready early for an afternoon or evening game, sharing greasy backyard burgers and barbeque, arguing about hitting statistics and pitcher ERA, moaning about this ball club or that ball club that hasn’t been to the World Series

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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21 Apr 2023

An Elegy to the Oakland A’s

by Matt Werner Born at Oakland Kaiser in 1984, I was the ideal age to watch the A’s win the 1989 World Series. Watching Dave Stewart, Rickey Henderson, Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco got me hooked on baseball and baseball card collecting. But it was wanting to go to A’s

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09 Mar 2023

The Best SF Bars for Transplants to Watch their Home Teams Play

But what if you’re a transplant from one of these epic cities of sports fandom looking for a place to watch your beloved team in San Francisco? Look no further than our handy guide to specific-city-supporting sports bars in SF!

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21 Jan 2023

The Niners & Cowboys Playoff Game Will Be Epic

This Sunday at 3:30 pst the fallen from grace, self proclaimed America’s Team, Dallas Cowboys make their way to Santa Clara to take on one of the best 49er teams I have seen since the 90’s. I know, a bold statement. Arguable at best. Maybe I’m just getting caught up in

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07 Dec 2022

Nine Reasons to Never Give Up on San Francisco

San Francisco is objectively beautiful. In San Francisco, you can still get lost in the woods. Mount Sutro cloaks you in eucalyptus groves until you reach the summit crowned with its eponymous Tower. Glen Canyon slices the hills south of Twin Peaks, the creek that cut it still running its

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23 May 2022

The Best Duos in San Francisco Giants History

In Major League Baseball, it takes more than one skilled player to field a championship contender. It takes talent all over the field at a variety of positions, both in terms of pitchers and hitters. While having a star pitcher and a star hitter at the same time is no

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28 Jan 2022

Why Hasn’t the NFL Been Cancelled?

The answer to this question is, in many ways, obvious. A combination of cultural tradition, absurd amounts of money, and many people’s genuine love for the sport of football are enormous contributors to the NFL’s continued success. It’s one of those shocking-but-not-really-surprising things that the brutality of football and the

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