Grant interviewed Ryan Vogelsong Thursday morning and wrote a column for CSN BayArea about him. Grant is new at interviewing real live people and new at turning interviews into written pieces. I was not with him when he interviewed Vogelsong. He was the first writer in the clubhouse -- he [...]
Over at ComcastSportsNet BayArea they are celebrating Willie Mays' 80th birthday in all sorts of ways. Grant just contributed a column about Mays' distinctive basket catch, the most famous fielding maneuver in baseball history. Can you name something more distinctive? Grant used Marty Lurie as his guest expert, Marty who [...]
Henry Schulman just tweeted Bruce Bochy is unhappy with Jonathan Sanchez who stunk today vs. the Mets. Bochy plans to meet with his pitcher tomorrow who, Bochy said, is drifting mentally. I can get behind that. But what does it mean he drifts mentally? Is he on the mound with [...]
Steve Harmon, political reporter extraodinaire and a friend of the Cohn Zohn going back decades, has just started his own Giants blog. He sent a link to it as a comment on the Zohn, but I thought I'd include it in a regular blog and give you the link in [...]
Brian Murphy and Brad Mangin have come out with a must-read, must-get book on the Giants' miracle 2010 season. It's called "Worth the Wait" and it's published by Skybox Press. Murphy and Mangin are two close friends of the Cohn Zohn -- Murph worked with me at the Press Democrat [...]
Articles are beginning to appear linking Mets' shortstop Jose Reyes to the Giants. This makes sense. Reyes is a very good young shortstop and a leadoff hitter. The Giants currently need both of those. The question is, of course, what would the Giants have to give up to get Reyes? [...]
I don't mean to be negative, but the Giants haven't been so hot so far in 2011. I mean these are the defending World Series champions but they're playing like a bunch of chumpions. You have to wonder if they have what it takes to repeat. Forget repeat. You have [...]
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 [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.