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Published by on October 14, 2011 | 5 Responses

You may have noticed — the three of you that read this website — that we’ve been down for a few days. The reason: hackers. Dirty, dirty hackers. Sometime around 10/10/11 malicious code was inserted into some server files that help run the blogging software that we use here at BCB. The result was a script that tried to redirect… Read more →

BCB adds new writer, Chris Martinez

Published by on August 7, 2011 | 14 Responses

I’d like to welcome our newest site contributor, Chris Martinez. If you’ve been reading up on the Giants’ minor league system the last few years, chances are you’ve read some of Chris’ work. She has written for SFDugout (now defunct, sadly) and she has covered minor league baseball for MILB.com. I’m excited to get the chance to add someone to… Read more →

Follow Bay City Ball on Twitter

Published by on July 22, 2011 | 3 Responses

There’s another place you can catch the Bay City Ball writing staff, and that’s on Twitter. Do yourself a favor and give us a follow. Chris Quick (@BayCityBall), while riffing on the Giants’ “offense,” will say stuff like… He also has a tendency to get really excited when he hears the word “graph,” similar to the way Dug the Talking… Read more →

Site Update: BCB Welcomes New Author

Published by on March 21, 2011 | 1 Response

I would like to take this chance to welcome our newest contributor, Rory Paap, to the website. Rory has been writing at Paapfly.com since 2009 and he’s quickly become one of the better Giants’ bloggers out there. You can also find his writing on The Hardball Times. You can head over to the contributors section to read more about Rory, but in the… Read more →

Things Look … Different

Published by on January 27, 2011 | 15 Responses

I’ve gone and done it again — I’ve ended up changing the theme used for BCB. I can’t seem to keep things the same, but I like the way this new theme looks. I think it reads well, and I think the comments sections reads much better. Hopefully it will encourage more people to post, post, post in the comments…. Read more →

Updates Coming Soon

Published by on November 7, 2010 | Leave a response

A quick update: I haven’t shutdown the site for the offseason, but I am in the middle of a couple of things. Expect updates to begin again by tomorrow. I’ve got some things in the pipeline that I’m hoping everyone will enjoy. Thanks for bearing with me.

Vacation

Published by on July 16, 2010 | Leave a response

Dear readers, I’ll be away from BCB for the next week or so because of vacation. I’ll be, as they say, going off-the-grid at least until next Friday. Looking forward to catching up on my summer reading (Catch-22 by Joseph Keller and a short story collection of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick). In the meantime, feel free to watch all… Read more →

How Sweet It Is

Published by on April 6, 2010 | 4 Responses

I’ll be posting some Lincecum thoughts later today but I wanted to give a quick update on Bay City Ball. You’ll notice a new nav-bar at the top of this website. I’ve been asked by Rob Neyer of ESPN to join the ‘SweetSpot Network’ — a collection of baseball bloggers covering, eventually, every team in baseball. You can read Rob’s… Read more →