Move over, Bobby Thomson. It’s really Fernando Tatis, Jr. who hit The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.
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Murph: The 49ers are the safest bet in our lives right now
For five months now, we sports fans have dealt with life in the pandemic. What we’re dealing with includes cardboard cutouts, Gabe Kapler in a mask, and now an autumn without the Cal marching band in Strawberry Canyon. That’s pretty weird stuff.
Murph: The Curious Case of Gabe Kapler
And all of us getting to know Kapler, a man hired nearly ten months ago, a man yet to manage a game for the beloved Gigantes, and a dude already morphing through different iterations as a fan base watches.
Murph: Raheem Mostert has pitted himself against cold, cruel NFL reality
You would think he would know about the danger of shark-infested waters.
Murph: In an age of bad news, I’ve got some optimism for you
And now for something completely different: optimism?
Murph: Don’t do it, Giants
I have two words about these Puig-to-the-Giants rumblings.
Murph: What is wrong with the DH in the National League? Four thoughts
The designated hitter in the National League. Pass the vomit bag.
Murph: On the Giants’ three foundations of hope, and now, more?
Or, as I like to call them: Three Fountains of Hope. Or, the Trilogy of Belief. Or, the Trinity of Optimism.
Murph: Protest in Marin City an exercise in learning how much I did not know
And now we are all grappling with ghosts of America’s Original Sin: slavery, and the systemic racism that has taken root in our culture ever since.
Murph’s Reading List: Best new Bay Area sports books for quarantine
As an old sportswriter, I keep a keen eye on my ink-stained colleagues. I still love to read them. When the Murphy family hard-copy newspaper hits our driveway every morning, it’s the sound of loyalty.
Murph: Is it reasonable to ask MLB players take pay cut during pandemic?
As if 2020 wasn’t surreal enough, we’ve now found ourselves somehow reliving the 1994 baseball strike in the middle of a global pandemic.
Murph: Like a bolt from the heavens, baseball is back
Could it be true? South Korea was not only starting a 144-game season, but ESPN would broadcast the games? Live ball?
Murph: Reflecting on the Little League World Series, the latest sports casualty
We’ve all been bobbing and weaving, trying to survive the stoppage of life that is the CoronaVirus pandemic, but then came the news that may require a standing-eight count in my corner.
Murph: The NFL pulled off the CoronaDraft, and it was sort of amazing
Only the all-conquering, all-powerful NFL could pull off the the COVID-19 draft, or as Roger Goodell might have wanted to call it ‘Pandemic Pandemonium’.
Murph: Is baseball’s potential return worth not being able to attend?
To be a sports fan in 2020, means we have to embrace being unable to be a fan.
Murph: This weekend’s 1-2 punch is enough to put me on the canvas
Incredibly, it might be missing Tiger Woods in April that hurts most of all.
Murph: Coping with a baseball-less ‘Opening Day’
Today would have been the day.
Murph: No sports, no problem for NFL
In the midst of our sports-free world, the NFL delivered haymakers 1985 Mike Tyson would be proud of.
Murph: Don’t feel alone, I’m just as confused as you are
We’re all in this together.
Murph: Jimmy G is great, but Tom Brady as 49ers QB is damn enticing too
It’s not the craziest thing in the world for John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan to take Tom Brady’s phone call.
Murph: Takeaways from a week in Scottsdale that left us both unsettled and curious
The week the ‘Murph and Mac Show’ just spent in Scottsdale was a smorgasbord for the senses.
Murph: Four reasons to be optimistic about 2020 Giants
The last time the Jock Blog sat down to pen an ode to the San Francisco Giants Baseball Club, I believe it was the “Farhan has put us all in a pickle” Jock Blog, after he hired Gabe Kapler to skipper the club.
Murph: A meditation on coping with Super Bowl loss, Lynch and Shanahan’s end-of-year presser
Four days later, and it’s still a *thing*.
Murph: The 49ers are going to win on Sunday, and not just because of Xs and Os
This team, this roll, this energy, it feels . . . different.
Murph: The moment the Jimmy G panic set in — to everyone except Jimmy G
Maybe it’s because Jimmy G is considered movie-star handsome that some were ready to turn on him.