MSR’s Looking Back, Looking Ahead: The Giants’ “Odd Years”
2010. 2012. 2014. The San Francisco Giants earned the title “World Champions.” Those years in between? Not so much. Since 2009, odd-numbered years have not been [...]
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MSR’s Good Idea/Bad Idea: March 24, 2015
It’s … TIME!! Time for what, you ask? Well, it’s time for another edition of “Good Idea/Bad Idea” – where I present a number of issues, [...]
The Rundown: Friday The 13th Edition
It’s the one day people suffering from Triskaidekaphobia and Cabin-By-The-Lake Dwellers fear most … It’s Friday The 13th! In honor of the superstitious [...]
Giants sign Vogelsong, Crawford for 2015
The San Francisco Giants continue to make moves in the offseason. And, while they may not be the flashiest, the front office has tried to make one thing clear: They take [...]
The Rundown: January 16, 2015
Aoki, Giants agree on 1-year Deal In a classic “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” storyline, the AL Champion Kansas City Royals just lost a key [...]
Weighing In: Giants Ink Peavy, Trade for McGehee
After an offseason full of disappointment and what looked like inaction from the front office, the defending World Champions pulled off a couple moves that filled their [...]
The 2014 San Francisco Giants: An MSR Retrospective
It has been a week since the celebrations have been had, the champagne was spilled, and the orange-and-black confetti was scattered all over a rain-soaked Market Street [...]
The Giants Win The Pennant! A First-Person Account
With the San Francisco Giants about to play in their third World Series in five years, I felt like writing this: It is a personal account of what it was like to go to, and [...]
The Giants’ 2014 NL Pennant: A Bounce of The Ball
In one of the most unpredictable MLB postseasons in recent memory, the script wasn’t supposed to read like this. For the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals [...]
Giants Reach 2014 MLB Postseason: Rapid Reaction
It was likely not the way they wanted to reach the playoffs. Nonetheless, they have cause to celebrate. The San Francisco Giants were knocked out of the NL West Pennant chase [...]
The Rundown: June 5, 2014
San Francisco Giants keep rolling along: Not-So-Rapid Reaction Another series, another win for the red-hot Giants. And, this time, they did it in a park they haven’t [...]
MSR’s Random Sports Thoughts: Vol. 17
Well, looky what we have here: the Giants are this week’s No. 1 team in ESPN’s latest MLB Power Rankings. I mean, after a month that saw them go a league-best [...]
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