My National League West prediction for the 2012 season

With a heaping helping of faith and wishful thinking, I’m picking the San Francisco Giants to win the National League West this year. Even as I typed that sentence, the nagging voice in my head was saying, “What about the Diamondbacks?” The pick comes down to arms versus bats, and the Giants have the better […]

Requiem for the San Francisco Giants

The inevitable happened tonight as the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the defending world champion San Francisco Giants to win the National League West title. It’s a bitter end to the season for us Giants fans, none of whom have the least glimmer of hope that San Francisco can finagle a wild card berth. Frankly, I don’t […]

Joy in Mudville-by-the-Bay: San Francisco Giants win the NL West

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Giants&iid=9908391″ src=”http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9908391/san-francisco-giants/san-francisco-giants.jpg?size=500&imageId=9908391″ width=”500″ height=”329″ /] It was a Sanchez-Sanchez kind of day at AT&T Park. Jonathan Sanchez got the victory, pitching five shutout innings. Maybe even more important, he tripled and then scored what turned out to be the winning run on an RBI single by Freddy Sanchez, who came in to […]