This is Grant one more time. I have a quick Cohn Zohn Quiz: Who’s the worst starting pitcher on the Giants right now? Bonus Question: If the Giants win the NL West, what is their playoff rotation? To me the answer is easy. It’s Jonathan Sanchez – he’s the worst. [...]
The Ryan Vogelson story will break your heart and then it will fill you with joy. It has defeat and suspense and victory. It has drama. It has everything. And it's at a ballpark near you. Vogelsong got his fourth win against the Rockies on Sunday and was just about [...]
I interviewed Giants president Larry Baer on Saturday in the press box during the Giants-Rockies game -- Rockies won 2-1. We talked about Brian Sabean's now infamous rant about Scott Cousins and the Giants' response which, I thought, was a propaganda press release. Baer explained himself and added to my [...]
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.
It's 10:30 Saturday morning and it's raining steadily at AT&T Park. No batting practice. The infield is covered by the big white tarp that billows in the wind like a sail. Guys in orange uniforms are brushing water off the tarp. Someone with an umbrella is walking on the outfield [...]
Brian Sabean ripped Scott Cousins on KNBR today, really laid into him. He said he wishes the guy would leave baseball and he said the Giants are gunning for him -- i.e. want revenge on the field. These are incendiary words and I don't think there's any place for them. [...]
Here is the pregame Q&A with Bruce Bochy in the dugout before today’s game. Please excuse all typos; I transcribed this in a hurry: What’s the lastest news about Posey? Right now it’s a lower-leg fracture, ankle fracture. X-rays did show that. Right now he’s getting an MRI so we’ll [...]
Here is the Giants starting lineup for today's day game vs. Florida. I'll have a few comments on the bottom. Andres Torres CF Emmanuel Burriss shortstop Freddy Sanchez 2B Aubrey Huff 1B Cody Ross RF Aaron Rowand LF Miguel Tejada, 3B Eli Whiteside C Ryan Vogelsong SP Clearly the Giants [...]
A few days ago, Grant did a Part II of a piece he wrote for CSN BayArea. In Part I he combined the A's and Giants starting rotations and came up with one super rotation. In this second piece he projects which pictures currrently pitching for the A's and Giants [...]
Grant just published a controversial piece on ComcastSportNet BayArea. He asked a simple question. If you combine the A's and Giants starting pitchers, who would be your starting rotation -- i.e. your best five? Some of his answers are obvious, like Tim Lincecum. Duh. Some of his candidates aren't so [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.