Here is a link to my Monday column about the Giants' much-anticipated home opener. The full text runs below: Get ready for the San Francisco Giants’ home opener. Expect world-class festivities for the world-champ Giants. Expect beautiful weather for the opener, for the day opener. Openers should always be day [...]
Here is an early link to my Thursday column on the Giants' messed-up pitching staff. The full text runs below: When I attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, Mrs. Bernstein, my 10th grade English teacher, said we always should include a topic sentence in our essays. It was a rule. [...]
Here is a link to my Giants preview plus some cool stuff my editor put together. The full text runs below: In the winter of 2014, long before the baseball season started, Giants president Larry Baer was putting on his makeup. Edit that. The makeup person at CSNBayArea was putting [...]
Here is an early link to my Tuesday column about Pablo Sandoval. The full text runs below: Pablo Sandoval may be a jerk. Oh, let’s not pussyfoot around. He is a jerk. His jerkiness has nothing to do with the Panda. The Panda is a fun-loving, gracious, wonderful person Giants [...]
Al Rosen died. I want to pay homage. He was a tough nice man. He spoke honestly and he didn't fib. He wasn't big but he seemed very big. He made the Giants relevant. He brought up Robby Thompson and Will Clark. He hired Roger Craig. He let Craig manage [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column about Hunter Pence. The full text runs below: The feel-good parts of the story are all there. Hunter Pence is in great spirits after Corey Black broke his left arm with a fastball. And Black is contrite and expressed sorrow to Pence [...]
Here is a link to my Friday column about Giants' starting pitching. The full text runs below: Do the Giants have the best starting rotation in the National League, or one of the worst? Their 2015 season depends on how they answer that question. With the Giants everything depends on [...]
Tim Lincecum seems to be a very nice person. Always has appeared that way. To the extent that I know him I like him. But it's hard being Tim Lincecum. That's my opinion. I did not interview him in Arizona. His body language so clearly says please leave me alone. [...]
When I look at the Giants this time of year, I tend to take a critical view. Maybe you do, too. I'm talking pitching right now. I see all the innings Madison Bumgarner pitched last year. I'm aware Matt Cain and Tim Hudson had offseason surgery. I know Jake Peavy [...]
The Giants clubhouse is quieter without Pablo Sandoval. His locker, now occupied by Andrew Susac, was smack in the middle of the room. He would sit there and talk and laugh. Mostly he talked in Spanish and the other Spanish-speaking guys laughed with him and took their cues from him. [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.