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The Barry Bonds fiasco is finally over… at least for now. Upon his conviction for giving misleading testimony before a grand jury investigating steroid use in sports, the Home Run King was sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years probation, a $4,000 fine, and 250 hours of community service on Friday. The federal [...]

Oh, Pat Burrell.

It sounds like the outfielder’s career might be coming to an end.

Burrell had mentioned late in the season that he would toss the idea of retirement around if he wasn’t able to return to full strength, with that right foot of his giving him all kinds of trouble. Although he has yet to make an official decision, [...]

he Kansas City Royals changed up their rotation a bit on Monday, trading away outfielder Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants for starting pitcher Jonathan Sanchez. Believe it or not, this guy is an improvement considering the Royals owned the third-worst combined ERA in the American League in 2011. Not coincidentally, this move makes room on the roster [...]

Since our playoff update was a popular post on Wednesday, we are going to make this a regular thing up until the last day of the season. Let’s recap the meaningful National League action from yesterday.

National League Wild Card

Atlanta Braves: DNP [...]

Clayton Kershaw and the Giants have a chicken-and-the-egg thing going. Kershaw is making a strong case for the Cy Young this year. The Giants are making a strong case to be one of the league’s weakest offenses in years, if not decades. Kershaw has made almost 20 percent of his starts this season against the [...]

It’s just one game.

But for one game, anyway, the San Francisco Giants looked a little bit like the team that won the World Series less than one year ago.

Entering Friday night’s contest against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the second-place Giants trailed the first-place Diamondbacks by six games. Realistically, the Giants need to win at least twice in this [...]

Last summer the San Francisco Giants made several small moves that ended up making a big difference in their run to a World Series championship.

The Giants added guys like Pat Burrell, Cody Ross, Javier Lopez, Ramon Ramirez and Mike Fontenot who made big contributions down the stretch. Ross and Fontenot were both acquired via the waiver wire and turned out to be great finds. San Francisco might be going [...]

Believe it or not, as much scrutiny as the New York Mets get, they are having a very productive 2011 season. They are playing really hard, they are a likable bunch, they are two games over .500 when most people thought they would 20 games under .500 at this point in the season, and they have been able to ship off some of their veterans for some much needed young talent. [...]

You can forget Roy Halladay. You can forget Cliff Lee and CC Sabathia. Heck, you can even forget his top-of-the-marquee teammate Tim Lincecum. What you also need to do is Fear the ‘Fro, because San Francisco Giants right-hander Matt Cain is still the only starter who hasn’t allowed an earned run this postseason after shutting [...]

The Mayor of Arlington, Robert Cluck, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom have put a friendly wager on the World Series.

Each of them has agreed that if their team loses, they will provide a day’s worth of community service to the winner’s city. What makes this bet even more awesome is that the loser will be donning a jersey of the opposing winning team [...]