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.

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.

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.