Dec 07
We’re right in the middle of the 2012 Hot Stove season, and today, we’re going to take a look at a how the World Series odds shake out as of right now. The Sportsbooks have set the co-favorites at +800 are the Los Angeles Angels, Washington Nationals, and Detroit Tigers. That’s a hefty price for …
Oct 30
I guess someone has to be on the bottom, so why not a sweep which went head-to-head with football on three of its four nights: The four games on Fox averaged a 7.6 rating and 12 share, Nielsen Media Research said Monday. The previous low was an 8.4 for the 2008 Phillies-Rays and 2010 Giants-Rangers series, …
Oct 29
DETROIT – The end came much like this series, not with a boom, but with a little fly ball that fell through the 10th inning raindrops and onto the Comerica Park outfield grass for a single that would win the San Francisco Giants the 2012 World Series. In a series where new heroes come nightly …
Oct 26
Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who was nearly beaten to death outside Dodger Stadium on Opening Day of 2011, attended Game 2 of the World Series Thursday night as a guest of the team. A spokeswoman for the Giants said Stow’s family requested privacy and the team didn’t announce where in AT&T Park …
Oct 25
Don’t look now, but I think Pablo Sandoval just hit another home run. The Stack is here on this Thursday in awe of what the Giants did last night as well as a Thursday night fooball preview. So let’s get right to it and see what made “the stack” for today, Thursday, October 25: Giants …
Oct 24
Not going to lie, “the stack” is a little thin today. What with no NHL to talk about thanks to the lockout and the two sides not meeting, the NBA a week away (preview next week), and not a ton of NFL news (MJD will miss a couple of games and the NFLPA is asking …
Oct 23
The Giants have faced elimination six different times this postseason. Yet they are still standing. Game 7 of the NLCS wasn’t much of a contest, as the Giants topped the Cardinals 9-0 at AT&T Park in San Francisco this evening to win the National League pennant and advance to the World Series against the Tigers. …
Oct 22
The Giants got to Chris Carpenter early and took advantage of one of the best performances of Ryan Vogelsong‘s career to win 6-1 in Sunday night’s Game 6 and send the NLCS to a decisive Game 7 on Monday. Vogelsong retired 14 of the first 15 batters he faced and struck out a career-high nine …
Oct 12
Just as Justin Verlander pitched the Tigers past the A’s, CC Sabathia proved to be the dominant presence as the Yankees beat the Orioles 3-1 in Friday’s decisive Game 5 and advanced to the ALCS. Sabathia, coming off a win in Game 1 in which he nearly went the distance, did go nine this time …
Apr 13
Craig Counsell Spent 15 years in the League on 5 different teams. Counsell was both the highest-rated 2nd baseman and the highest-rated 3rd baseman over the period from 2002 to 2008. He has the distinction of having been on base for the last two times that the World Series ended in a walk-off hit, and …
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