If you’ve ready any of my baseball posts around these parts, you may know that Tim Lincecum fascinates me. He fascinates me when he does well, and he also fascinates me when he’s not doing well at all . He’s the most charismatic ball player the San Francisco Giants have had since Barry Bonds. When he’s on the television, you don’t turn away, you don’t get up to get something to drink, and you don’t empty your bladder. Well, except this season. You know that old […]
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Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Show Life
Early Tuesday before the Giants tried to hold on to their playoff hopes for dear life, there were whispers that Hunter Pence delivered an inspired speech to the team. After Pence struck out in the second inning, I joked on Twitter that Pence’s speech sure didn’t work on himself. My joke would turn out to be wrong. While no single player would say they played the best game of their life, the team did what they usually do – they […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Mission Impossible
In my post after Saturday night’s debacle , I mentioned that Sunday’s game was now a must-must-win. So what is Tuesday’s game three then? It may be “Mission Impossible”. The Giants looked flat on Saturday night in game one, and then they were steamrolled Sunday night. Their bats were so listless that all the erectile disfunction ads TNT was showing could’ve spliced in shots of the Giants hitting in with the horse back riding and no one would’ve blinked. When the game was finally over, […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Giants Lose “Must-Win” Opener
Like I mentioned in our latest Heat Check , I will be writing game stories for San Francisco Giants playoff games. If the Giants lose quickly, it will be short and sweet. If they last for a while, I’ll be writing every other day for several weeks. Everything had fallen right for the Giants before the the first inning of their division series playoff game against the Cincinnati Reds had ended. With the weird home-field advantage rules, they’d play the first two […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (End Of The Season Edition)
The SF Giants Heat Check crew has covered the San Francisco Giants in an in depth fashion from spring training (my favorite search term for the Spring Training Edition was “brandon crawford mormon”), all the way until now, the end of the regular season. It was a bit of an experiment for me personally to see if I could gather some very educated hardcore baseball fans and analyze the team from many different angles. I think we succeeded. It’s also […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (2nd Half Edition)
For the last several years, I’ve taken my kids on a bit of a baseball vacation. We head out to San Francisco, CA from our dwellings in the South Bay and take in a few games in a row. Ever since the Giants won the World Series in 2010, that trip has doubled in price because of secondary market ticket costs. Our little fun Giants vacation is now a very expensive 3-day vacation. In addition to spending three days at […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Matt Cain’s Perfecto
The reflection of perfection, the number one selection In the last four years, San Francisco Giants fans have witnessed a no-hitter, a World Series, and now, a perfect game. There has not been a better time to be a Giants fan than the last four years. It was hard for me to write that statement considering all the players who have worn the orange and black, from Willie Mays to Barry Bonds to Will Clark to Will McCovey and Juan […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (Bochified Edition)
When your favorite team does despicable things, sometimes it’s easier to be disgusted by them than it is to be happy when they play well. That’s the conundrum I’ve found myself in with the San Francisco Giants. I’m bothered more when they do poorly than I am joyful when they do well. I call it the expectation factor. Before 2010, my hope was that they’d play competitively, maybe make it to the playoffs, and who knows what would happen. But […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Tim Lincecum’s Fastball VeLOSSity
What would Nolan Ryan have been without his fastball? Roger Clemens seemed to cheat to keep his. Doc Gooden wasn’t the same when he lost his. When you’re a power pitcher, everything you ever learned about how to pitch is based off your fastball. You set up your other pitches with it. Ryan could strike guys out with his huge curveball because they had to look fastball or else get blown away. When Clemens’ control was on, no one could […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (Opening Day Edition)
Yesterday, I wrote some predictions about the 2012 baseball season . Today, I post the second edition of the SF Giants Heat Check, which is my attempt to discuss my favorite team in depth alongside some of the smartest Giants fans I know. The first edition of the Heat Check was posted last month . Here’s part two: (These questions were sent out before the season started and the Giants currently sit at 1-3 to start the season.) 1. The 25-man roster is now set. The Giants chose to keep […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (Spring Training Edition)
I enjoy writing about baseball. I love writing national stories, like the one I wrote about that fraud Ryan Braun . And I’ll write many of them during the season. But I also love writing about my hometown team. I’ve been following the San Francisco Giants closely since 1983. Every month or so, I’m going to make sure to write about the Giants here, but it’s not just going to be me. I’m going to feature some of the smartest Giants fans I know. […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – A Look Back At My New Year’s Predictions
At the beginning of the year, I made some New Year’s Predictions and came back a month later with more . I wrote them with the intention of looking back at them near the end of the baseball season to see how off hilarious they’d look after the fact. Well, we have one month left in the baseball season, so it’s as good a time as any to take a look. The Giants won’t win the NL West in 2011 Of course, my first […]