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Happy PI Day, Einstein!
Today was Pi Day, the day marked by nerds and mathical folks because the important mathematical constant pi has a value of 3.14. So March 14 = 3/14. Get it? Anyway, it’s also the birthday of the most...
View ArticleIt’s Been a Great Run, Bernie, But It’s Time to Go Green
As regular readers of this space know, I’ve given up on the Democratic Party in recent elections. Independent Bernie Sanders, running as a Democratic “outsider”, got my attention and I’ve been a rabid...
View ArticleWhy the Kerfuffle Over Hillary’s Speeches is Mostly Fluff. Probably.
The media and the Bernie Sanders campaign are going bat-crap crazy because she won’t release transcripts of the 92 speeches she’s given since leaving her post as Secretary of State for which she bagged...
View ArticleIgnorance Wins Again: Yoga is Not a Religion
When officials at Bullard Elementary School in Kennesaw, Ga., implemented a meditation mindfulness program recently, they stirred up a hornet’s nest of ignorant blather that is forcing them to severely...
View ArticleDon’t Stop Trump, Stop the Far More Dangerous Cruz! Better Yet, Stop Them Both
The Republican Party’s presidential nominating circus is about at its midway point and so far the only clear things are that a plurality (30-40%) of the “base” who vote in primaries and caucuses prefer...
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Here Are My Opening Day Thoughts About the Giants
Tomorrow is Opening Day! Having returned to full strength just in time for the 2016 baseball season, I am donning anew my prognosticator’s hat, dusting off my sports writer’s jersey, and trying on a...
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Niners Open Spring Workouts With Kaep a Big Question Mark That Shouldn’t Be
NFL teams begin their spring workout schedules tomorrow on the same day as Major League Baseball launches the official 2016 season. This produces information overload for sports junkies. The San...
View ArticleSee? I TOLD You it Would Be All About Offense!
The Giants won their season opener at Milwaukee today by a score of 12-3. They banged out 15 hits including four home runs. In the eighth, with two out, Span, Panik and Posey went yard back to back...
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Why Voting Green Isn’t a Wasted Ballot
Green Party USA Logo As you know if you are even a casual reader of this blog, I am committed to Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency as long as he remains in the...
View ArticleGiants, Led by Cueto, Win a One-Run, Low-Scoring Gem
On Tuesday, April 5, the Giants took the second game of the season-opening three-game series at Milwaukee behind a sterling pitching performance by the newly acquired Johnny Cueto. Cueto pitched seven...
View ArticlePitching, Hitting Both Fail as Brewers Deny Sweep
Jeff Samardzija got off to a rocky start for the Giants today (Wednesday, April 6), yielding solo scores in each of the first three innings as the Giants dropped the final game of the season-opening...
View ArticleDodgers Open on HIstoric Note, Bring it to ATT Park for Giants’ Home Opener
Tomorrow’s home season opener for the Giants against their arch-rival Dodgers has all the earmarks of a fascinating game with historic overtones. LA comes into town having racked up three consecutive...
View ArticleWhy is Bochy Hitting Pitchers in the Eight Hole?
Giants manager Bruce Bochy is trying a relatively new (for him and the Giants) tactic this season by having his pitchers hit in the eighth spot rather than the ninth as tradition dictates. Why is he...
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Catching Up With the Giants
I set out this year planning to post about every Giants game the same day it was played or at least before the next game was started. That didn’t last long. Life has a way of messing with plans. Since...
View ArticleGiants Potent Offense Continues, Sets Torrid NL West Pace
The Giants’ 9-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at AT&T Park yesterday afternoon — a game I was unable to watch thanks to the greed of Major League Baseball — gives them a mark of 3-3 in games...
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The Kap Saga Drags On…and On…as Niners Look to Completely Rebuild
Most of the news during this NFL off-season as far as the 49ers are concerned has focused on the quarterback situation. One-time superstar darling Colin Kaepernick was benched near the end of the 2015...
View ArticleGiants Keep Average Scoring Sizzling With 7 at Coor’s
The Giants handed it to the Rockies at Coor’s Field tonight, winning an easy 7-2 win. The orange-and-black racked up 13 hits in the one-sided win, which kept them atop the NL West at 6-2. My updated...
View ArticleScoring 6 Twice in a Row Produces Nada as Giants Pitching Plummets
Keeping up their pace of the season so far, the San Francisco Giants scored almost at will last two games, running up six runs in each of those contests. But, as has become their pattern, six wasn’t...
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Semantics Matter: It’s Climate Change, Not Global Warming
Among other research techniques, I have created a Google feed that brings me every day supposedly top news in the field of global climate change. This feed includes items both from the scientific...
View ArticleGiants Pitching and Offense Both Take a Hit in Dodgers’ Win
In a season first (by my definitions), the Giants lost a game to the LA Dodgers this evening in SoCal that can be nearly equally attributed to hitting and pitching, with enough blame to go around for...
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