San Francisco Giants

The Giants have started off slow, and fans in the Bay Area are already worried and giving up on the season.

But they should not give up just yet.

If I had my way, this would be the coaching staff of the San Francisco Giants this season. Unless Bruce Bochy makes the playoffs of course.

Bill Neukom says he wants to restore the Giants Way. These guys would definitely send the Giants on that path.

I have listed out th coaching positions that should be filled by former Giant legends that I believe are capable to coach. I am interested in what you all have to say.

Kevin Frandsen, 2B, 26

Frandsen seemed all but a lock to get some playing time at second base this year. 

He has hit for a .324 batting average in his AAA career (450 AB).

Frandsen’s good spring training defense and .274 BA seemed like enough to get him on the team but he was sent down to the minors as one of the final roster cuts.

I work as a produce manager at a grocery store. Today was a beautiful Monday in Santa  Rosa. The day after Easter and just days before I go on a nice vacation, I was building a display of navel oranges at work when a regular customer named "Bill" came in.

Bill is a Giants Fan and like myself, has a general hatred for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I didn't get to watch the game because I was at work, so I asked him how the game was going and if the Giants were winning.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants' final few roster decisions hinge mostly on how many pitchers the team will carry to start the season, and a 12-man staff appears to be most popular with team officials.

"We are really leaning more toward 12 at this point," manager Bruce Bochy said Friday, "but that doesn't mean it couldn't change in the next couple of days."

The Giants don't have to announce their Opening Day roster until Sunday at noon.

Earlier this spring, the Giants appeared to favor opening with 11 pitchers to have greater flexibility among the position players.

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The Giants opened up the season 2-1 against the Brewers. Enough of a great start to pump life back into what has been a downer for most Giants fans the past few years.

But the series that started in San Diego on Friday was enough to remind the fans of those embarrassing times.

A game in which San Diego, the Little League team of the NL West, should have lost, they ended up winning. Was it the bad defense, the hitting, away game, or just the pitching?

The first game of this series between the 2-1 San Francisco Giants and the 2-2 San Diego Padres begins today in San Diego. 

The Giants are coming into this series with hot bats where they scored nineteen runs and racked up 30 hits in the three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers.  The hottest player so far is Aaron Rowand who is batting .545 with a home run and four RBI.

I've hit a little bit of a lull—the writing bug has stopped biting so incessantly.

When that happens, I find it's usually best to return to the things you really love and hope that sparks things back up a bit.  For me, that means the San Francisco Giants.  Luckily for me, there's a subject that fits nicely right into the inaugural week of the Major League Baseball season.

Usually when we think of America's pastime we think of mowed green grass, a clean infield, white bases, a soda, hot dogs, and the warm sunny weather...unless you open your season in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Giant's opening day against the Brewers was met with cold, rainy weather. If this was a few years ago the Giants probably would have had the weather beat them, over the opposing team. 

Then, here comes the Giants one glimmer of hope, "The Washington Rifle," Tim Lincecum.

There are many things that can be said about Barry Bonds, most negative, but not all.

One of the positivies in the swirl of negative publicity that seems to follow Bonds wherever he goes is his fantastic season in 2007. In his age 42 season, Bonds hit 28 home runs and had 66 RBI. He also led Major League Baseball in walks with 132 and broke the most hallowed baseball record of all time, Hank Aaron’s home run record.