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SpinMD

Mar 14, 2008 Feb 14, 2012 5 74

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Nice summary of the season... with great Flannery quote at the end:

"The crowd energy at San Francisco is like surfing Cloud Break every night -- loud, demanding," he said. "The fans have heart, and sometimes cut deep, and they can help. The intensity of surfing there in Fiji -- San Francisco is that."

about 1 year ago Img_0522_tiny SpinMD 11 comments

"It's a shame. San Francisco is a beautiful city, a real-world paradise with stunning vistas - and it's wasted on people who can't get enough Bonds and MC Hammer and, even worse, can't bring themselves to admit it."

Just a sample of the garbage being spewed by this clown. I think he needs some corrective commentary...

over 1 year ago Img_0522_tiny SpinMD 26 comments

McCovey Chronicles Stanford Downs FSU and Posey

Buster had a marginal game, did not come through in some clutch situations and got knocked around a bit in his role as, get this, Florida State's CLOSER.  I read a bit about him when the Giants drafted him but don't remember reading that he came in to close games.  How tough must that be?  Catch for 8+ innings and then go out there to shut down the other team in tight situations after squatting for the three previous hours (it was a 4+ hour game today)?

For instance, today he came in when Stanford had men on (I think) 1st and second.  He walked a guy, but then had some bad luck when the FSU shortstop couldn't field a double play ball.  The Cardinal went on to score a CWS record-tying 11 runs in that inning, helped by another error by that poor shortstop.  They beat FSU 16-5 (Go Cardinal!).

Anyway, Posey seems like a really athletic tough guy, and he'll be fun to watch.  Hoping to get out to see him in San Jose at some point next year.

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McCovey Chronicles Lincecum Story

Apologies if this has been linked already, but ran across an interesting story about Tim Linceum in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This paragraph was intriguing:

Lincecum has a freakishly resilient arm. There were reports he was throwing long toss the day after a 190-pitch outing. But despite his heavy workload and the fact he doesn't even ice his arm (which is unheard of), he's never had an arm injury.

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McCovey Chronicles KNBR Fires Bruce Magowan

I will miss him.  He not only lent a very human voice to the Bay Area sports scene but also was a tremendous resource for audio recordings documenting his (and our) travels around the local sports landscape for the past couple of decades.  

I can't count the number of dumb personnel decisions KNBR has made over the past 10 years.  Between Giants games, I'll be changing the station.  Here's a column about the firing.

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