Earlier this week, Jay previewed the Eastern Conference (with a surprise pick to come out of the East). If you thought his Eastern Conference finals pick was a surprise, his Western Conference pick is an even bigger surprise. By the way, also check out Jay’s New York Knicks podcast . Western Conference Preview Oklahoma City Thunder – I do not like the Harden trade for this season. The Thunder might be better in the long run, but when you are so close to a title, why mess with it? Kevin […]
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Roundball Soundoff Presents: Your 2012-2013 NBA Preview (Eastern Conference)
If you don’t know, Jay is a hardcore New York Knicks fan. He hosts a podcast about all Knicks everythang . Give it some love. Now, onto the preview. Eastern Conference Preview Miami Heat – The defending champs replaced Ronny Turiaf and Eddy Curry with Ray Allen, Rashard Lewis and Josh Harrellson. The rich got richer this offseason. All Ray Allen, arguably the best 3 point shooter of all time, has to do is hit wide open 3’s off of LeBron and Wade double-teams. Unless Wade […]
Roundball Soundoff – Poptificating On The Upcoming NBA Season
This is the first of three upcoming posts about the 2012-2013 NBA season. Because of the Olympics, it feels like the season just ended . For hoop fans, this is great. We had a two and a half month break with no basketball and now they’re back at it. In our first part of a three-part Popblerd NBA Preview, I sent off questions to our NBA guy Jay and our editor-in-chief, Big Money Mike. We had quite the discussion about the upcoming season. Before we get to […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Are The 2012 World Series Champs
In my last post, I talked about how I felt really good about game three because even after winning the first two games, the “experts” were saying that the Giants were lucky and they were getting all the breaks. And most of them picked the Tigers to win game three. Before game four I read a quote from Jim Leyland about Miguel Caberera ducking out after game three and not answering the media. “I will deal with the situation and […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Are On The Brink Of Another World Series Championship
In the fourteen game stories I’ve written during the San Francisco Giants’ playoff run in the last two and a half weeks, I haven’t written a word about 2010. 2010 was a dream. It was the culmination of year after year of heartbreak (& 808s). The franchise had last won a World Series in 1954 as the New York Giants, but for the San Francisco version of the Giants, they’d never won it all. They’d come close, like in 1962. They were in […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Must Be Nice To Be Madison Bumgarner
Must be nice to be Madison Bumgarner. Two years ago, when he was just 21 years of age, he was the starting pitcher for game four of the World Series against the Texas Rangers. He picked up the victory, tossing eight innings, giving up only three hits and no runs. Last night, he was back on the mound in game two of the 2012 World Series against the Detroit Tigers. He picked up the win again, going seven innings, giving […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Live At Game 1 Of The 2012 World Series
Thanks to a lucky break and some fantastic co-workers , I was able to attend game one of the World Series at AT&T Park. The closest I’d come to being at a game of this magnitude was in 2010 when the San Francisco Giants were playing the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS. AT&T was rockin’ that day. But it was no where near as loud as it was on Wednesday night. It was rock-concert loud and the home crowd fans rarely stopped cheering. […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Sweat Equity
The thing I liked most about the NLCS match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants was that it was a duel between the two previous World Series winners. To win a championship is hard. To defend that championship is even harder. You want to raise the level of difficulty? How about doing so with several injuries to key players? How about doing so by losing your best player to free agency? The Cardinals should be commended […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Ryan Vogelsong Is Too Sweet To Be Sour
Former pro wrestler Superstar Billy Graham had one of the greatest raps of all-time. One of them could be used to describe Ryan Vogelsong tonight. “I’m the man of the hour, the man with power, too sweet to be sour.” And while Vogelsong may not eat t-bone steaks (we know he eats enchiladas), lift barbell plates, and I’m not sure if he’s really sweater than a German chocolate cake (Cardinals hitters would disagree), the man known as Vogey to Giants […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – #RallyZito
After I wrote many words about Tim Lincecum and his alarming regression in 2012, I added a couple paragraphs about #RallyZito . At the time of my writing, it was a fun little Twitter meme that Giants fans were using to try to stay positive about their chances in the NLCS. Game four was a chore to sit through and it didn’t even look like the Giants were supposed to be on the same field as the Cardinals. Giants fans were upset, but some creative fans decided […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – On Tim Lincecum And #RallyZito
Before I mention the Giants loss on Thursday night, I wanted to tell a story. It’s about a man named Tim Lincecum. After blazing through Pac 10 hitters at the University of Washington, this man named Tim Lincecum was the 10th pick of the Giants in the first round of the 2006 Amateur draft. He made minor leaguers look like little leaguers for a short while before being fast tracked to the major leagues. He was a 150-pound fire breathing […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – 7 Hours Later, The Cards Upend The Giants In Game 3
Game three of the NLCS between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals started at 1PM Pacific time and ended a bit before 8PM Pacific time. No, it wasn’t a seven hour game. There was a three and a half hour rain delay in the middle. October baseball! Before the rain delay, the Cardinals took advantage of a Matt Cain mistake and the Giants couldn’t take advantage of any Kyle Lohse mistakes, or Cardinals’ unlucky breaks. Cards’ slugger Carlos […]