Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports Giants Bring Back ‘The Panda’ Pablo Sandoval For Now the Third Time Do you still have your Pablo Sandoval “panda hat” from ten years ago? You may be able to put it to good use, as the Giants have just re-signed Sandoval to a minor-league contract, though with no guarantees he’ll play again in the big leagues.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Are Dumping That GM Cruise Patch on Their Uniforms That Fans Hated Here’s one reason to get excited for Giants baseball after the free agency flops in the offseason — the team won’t be wearing that cursed Cruise patch on their uniforms this year.
Bay Area Sports Giants Offered Shohei Ohtani the Same $700 Million the Dodgers Did, Ohtani Chose Dodgers Anyway In the wake of another Giants “always the bridesmaid” free agency whiff, we’re now learning that the Giants offered Shohei Ohtani the exact same deal the Dodgers offered, but Sho-Time still chose the Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Giants Interview Assistant Coach Alyssa Nakken To Be First-Ever Woman Manager of MLB Team The first woman to be an assistant coach in Major League Baseball could also be the first ever woman ever hired as manager of a team. The Giants confirmed that they’ve interviewed assistant coach Alyssa Nakken for the head coaching position.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brandon Crawford May be Finished as a San Francisco Giant Smoky skies have extended the Spare the Air declaration through Friday, the pedestrian who was struck by an SUV on Valencia Street Wednesday has died, and Brandon Crawford, the last remaining Giant from their most recent championships, may have played his final game as a Giant.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Ask Giants Fans to Join in Their ‘Sell the Team’ Protests At This Week’s Bay Bridge Series Games The Giants and A’s resume their Bay Bridge Series Tuesday at Oracle Park, but this time A’s fans are asking Giants fans to join them with “Sell the Team” signs, chants, and t-shirts. And the t-shirts will be free!
Bay Area Sports Giants to Play a Game on Willie Mays’s Hometown Field In Alabama Next Season It’s not the Field of Dreams game, but Major League Baseball is planning some “Specialty Games” to honor the legacy of the Negro leagues, and one of them will be the Giants playing on the very field where Willie Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons.
Bay Area Sports Giants Sweep Dodgers In Series Where L.A. Had Disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Did the Dodgers curse themselves with their clumsy disinviting and reinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night? Because the Giants swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles during the series, their first sweep of the bums in L.A. in 11 years.
Bay Area Sports Shortstop Brandon Crawford Gets To Pitch In Blowout Giants Win, Throws a Scoreless Ninth Inning The highly hair-gelled fan favorite Brandon Crawford was pulled into pitching duty as the Giants rode out their 13-3 win over the Chicago Cubs Sunday, and Crawford now has a 0.00 career ERA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Ready Up For Opening Day Against the Yankees The 4 Star, Balboa, and Vogue theaters successfully hit their $100k crowdfunding goal, Matt Horn’s Oakland burger joint Matty’s Old Fashioned will be opening soon, and your San Francisco Giants play ball for Opening Day Thursday morning at 10 a.m. PT.
Bay Area Sports Sergio Romo To Pitch For Giants One Last Time Tonight Former Giants pitcher Sergio Romo will end his 15-year career on a quickie contract with the Giants Monday night, and it looks like he may see more action than just a ceremonial first pitch in the Giants-A’s exhibition game at Oracle Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergio Romo Signs Symbolic Contract, Will Retire as A Giant PG&E admits Tuesday’s outages were the worst in nearly 30 years, the 4/20 Hippie Hill party announced its 2023 plans, and Sergio Romo, who famously wore an “I just look illegal” t-shirt in a championship parade, will retire as a San Francisco Giant.
Bay Area Sports Giants Lowering Beer Prices, Though Only At a Few Concession Stands Facing dwindling ticket sales since 2017, the SF Giants announced they’re lowering the price of beer from $14 to $9, though this only applies at select concession stands at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports Giants Nab Two Former All-Stars While Picking Through The Seeds And Stems Of Free Agency It’s probably not the jolt in morale the Giants clubhouse could use after the Carlos Correa debacle, but they added an outfielder who was an All-Star four years ago, and the twin brother of reliever Tyler Rogers, an All-Star in 2021.
Bay Area Sports Giant Screw-Up: Giants Lose Free Agent Mega-Acquisition Carlos Correa to Mets SF Giants fans are getting a lump of free agency coal this holiday season, as the team backed out of its blockbuster $350 million deal with All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa, and then Correa promptly bolted to the Mets.
Bay Area Sports Barry Bonds Denied Election to Baseball Hall of Fame Vote for the Umpteenth Time Cue up another round of ‘roid rage among San Francisco Giants fans, as Barry Bonds and a handful of other notorious steroids-era players were again denied Hall of Fame induction in a Sunday vote, though Bonds will be eligible for another vote in 2025.
Arts & Entertainment HBO Drops Trailer for Willie Mays Documentary, Premiering November 8 San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays gets the HBO documentary treatment in the upcoming ‘Say Hey, Willie Mays,’ exploring the slugger’s astonishing 25 years playing pro baseball, and his legacy off the field afterward.
Bay Area Sports The 2022 San Francisco Giants' Postmortem: A Season that Began with Promise and Ended at .500 The milestone in mediocrity perfectly exemplifies the overall blah-ness of the Giants' year. Sure, back in early May, San Francisco was actually leading the NL West, and seemed as if they might once again defy expectations and make a run at the postseason. But that inertia quickly faded.
Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Now a Co-Owner of the Giants, Becomes First Ex-Giant To Buy a Stake In the Team The Giants’ former catcher and Hall of Fame-bound slugger will be a “Forever Giant” in a way no player ever has before, having just bought an ownership stake in the team.
Bay Area Sports Lights Go Down At Giants Game, Journey Sing-Along Ensues A lighting malfunction at Monday night’s Giants-Padres game delayed play for about 40 minutes, but a spontaneous mass-karaoke version of Journey’s “When the Lights Go Down in the City” broke out.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco Giants Are Going Through a Rough Patch. What's the Cure? The Giants have fallen to third place in the NL West, now behind the San Diego Padres and — gag — the Dodgers; San Francisco is 9.5 games behind LA. The Giants have lost five games in a row, and 11 out of the last 14. Just two weeks ago, they were 10 games over .500, but are now 40 and 38.
Bay Area Sports Fox Sports Refuses To Show ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Amy Schneider Throwing First Pitch at Giants' Pride Game When openly trans 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider threw the first pitch for Saturday night’s Giants game, the Fox Sports Network played someone else’s first pitch instead — footage that was two days old.
Bay Area Sports Giants Roll Out ‘Flex Pricing’ to Try to Fill Seats at the Ballpark Would you be interested in “flex pricing” for lower-cost tickets to Giants games? It sounds great, but you’ll have to put down at least $500 for a crack at the cheaper seats.
Bay Area Sports Otherwise Despicable LA Dodgers Will Join Giants in Wearing Pride Logos for ‘Pride Night’ Game In SF It’s believed that it will be the first major American sports game with both teams wearing LGBTQ+ Pride logos, when both the Dodgers and the Giants will sport Pride-ified logos on their hats and uniforms for their June 11 Pride Night game.
