Here is a link to my Wednesday column about Brandon Belt, hitting terror. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO - “It doesn't suck to start off the season pretty good,” Brandon Belt philosophized after the Giants beat the Diamondbacks 7-3 in their home opener. Belt's non-sucking verbal construction referred [...]
Here is the opening to my Sunday column, which explores the world-shaking topic of players named Brandon on the A's and Giants: OAKLAND The story of Saturday’s A’s-Giants game was Brandon. I swear. In case you don’t know — and why should you? — five men named Brandon played in [...]
Bruce Bochy just announced Brandon Belt has a hairline fracture of the left wrist and is going on the Disabled List. The Giants have recalled Conor Gillaspie from Fresno. The Giants sure are having lots of injuries this season. Gee.
We're only four games into the 2011 season and the Giants already have a big problem. Their outfield is subpar defensively -- two of their outfielders can barely track down balls. You don't stay world champions if you can't catch the ball. Also troubling is Miguel Tejada at shortstop, or [...]
Jeff Fletcher, baseball writer extradinaire and my great friend, just sent me this piece he wrote on his blog Bay Bridge Baseball. It is about Brandon Belt and the Brandon Belt phenomenon and what the Giants should do or should not do with their high-profile rookie. Fletch sent it to [...]
Thursday morning I interviewed Brandon Belt, nice young man, talented fielding first baseman and gifted, graceful left-handed swinger. I liked him. I wrote my Friday column about him. In the column I asked the key question about this spring training pheenom -- should the Giants put him on the opening [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.