The Giants lost to the Braves on Sunday because they are having trouble putting a whole game together. When they hit they don't pitch and when they pitch they don't hit. On Sunday it was the hit but don't pitch variety. The Giants hit well enough and even came back [...]
Iggy (Grant) wrote a piece for ComcastSportsNet BayArea's Cooler blog about the best beards in sports. It's a hairy piece, if you will. In it he also talks about God and Plato and Aristotle and Brian Wilson and other significant personages in our culture, past and present who embrace facial hair. [...]
Here is my Monday column about the Giants winning the National League West and the giant Giants celebration that took place on the field and in the clubhouse afterward. I use many of the Brian Wilson quotes I used in an earlier post and put a 400-word topper on them. [...]
Here are some raw quotes from Brian Wilson immediately after the game, column to follow. Please forgive any typos. Re: Buster Posey after the Giants clinched: “It’s the first time I’ve seen some absolute, unadulterated craziness out of that guy. I thought he was going to punch me and I [...]
Brian Wilson is the strongest-minded pitcher on the Giants -- starter or reliever. The Giants are in danger of wasting this exciting season and slipping out of playoff contention. They needed someone -- as in a pitcher -- to step up bigtime on Sunday and halt the skid and tell [...]
One more thing about Lincecum's Sunday game. I mentioned he made the media wait a long time before appearing after the game -- maybe an hour. I forgot to mention this. After we waited that long time, Brian Wilson walked out of the shower. He saw the media crowd near Lincecum's [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.