Today’s batch of links from around the nerdsphere: * Stadium Journey has a new review online featuring AT&T Park. Not surprisingly, the park rates very well in several areas. The Giants’ homepark is one of my favorites in baseball. It’s my personal favorite that rates up there with other greats such as PNC Park and Camden Yards. Giants fans are… Read more →
Quick thought and then some links: after last night’s thrilling — or heart attack inducing — win over the Cardinals, one in which Nate Schierholtz had not one but two key hits, the Giants find themselves up 2-1 in a four game series against one of the better teams in the National League. Schierholtz always seems to confuse and perplex… Read more →
Good morning blog readers. It’s Saturday! The sun has finally come out, the weather is getting nicer, and baseball is just around the corner. Let’s celebrate with some links! * Is Jeff Suppan getting close to locking up the last pitcher’s spot on the roster? Coming off his worst start of the spring, Suppan “rebounded” and threw 4 innings against the Dodgers… Read more →
In case you missed it — or you aren’t following our twitter accounts, you jerks — me and Otis took over ESPN’s SweetSpot Blog today. Head on over to the blog to check out the full posts, here’s a few links and quotes from our postings. The top 10 struggling sluggers since 1950 I run down a list of the… Read more →
While we wait for the Giants to start the 2nd half of the season tonight against the Mets, let’s check out some links from around the Giants blogscape. * Triples Alley has an excellent piece up on AT&T Park and it’s affect on hitters. Go read it, now. It dispels some of the myths of AT&T being purely a pitcher’s… Read more →
Honest question, does anyone really care about baseball right now? I love that Spring Training marks the return of baseball, but I’ve got NCAA basketball fever. If I’m not obsessively checking my bracket every 5 minutes, I’m having heart palpitations over my picks. Hey, Villanova, stop scaring me like that. So, at the moment: NCAA basketball > Jesus Guzman learning… Read more →
Good morning, Giants fans. I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend. Mine was filled with videogames (Wario’s Smooth Moves for the Wii is a lot of fun), reading (reading through another short story collection of PKD’s works — love him), and trying some new scotch (a buddy of mine hooked me up with a bottle of Compass Box’s Peat Monster… Read more →
There’s nothing like 2 weeks of work-related training to sweep you away from baseball. Things I missed: The All-Star Game, most of the Pittsburgh series (this wasn’t a bad thing), and a few other odds-and-ends news items. While I’ve been away, I’ve been jotting things down here and there. Here’s a few quick thoughts: Looking through some WAR leaderboards for… Read more →
I’m still tied up in a couple of different projects right now, so I fear it’s going to be another link post today on BCB. But, fear not, I’ve got a couple of cool things lined up for the future and there’s a few interesting things happening right now in Giantsland. Let’s check them out. ~ The Big Unit is… Read more →
Good morning on a Monday. I hope everyone had a nice weekend and is strapping in for another work week. Something I had forgotten about Spring Training — it’s really long. The games have been going on for a couple of weeks now and yet, we’re still about 20+ days away from Opening Day. Trust me, I’m happy that baseball… Read more →