Category Archives: Brian Murphy
Murph: The Fernando Tatis Jr. mess is more nuanced than most are saying
Jerome Miron | 2020 Aug 17Move over, Bobby Thomson.It's really Fernando Tatis, Jr. who hit The Shot Heard 'Round the World.Setting aside the fact that it's just AWESOME TO BE ARGUING BASEBALL DURING A...
Aug 19, 2020
Murph: The 49ers are the safest bet in our lives right now
Kyle Terada | 2019 Dec 29 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...
Aug 13, 2020
Murphy: If loving baseball in the COVID-19 era is wrong, I don’t want to be right
Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports If loving baseball in the COVID-19 era is wrong, I don't want to be right. As I write this latest Jock Blog, I had to check my social media news feed to make sure Major Lea...
Jul 31, 2020
Murph: What is wrong with the DH in the National League? Four thoughts
Jake Roth | 2019 Jul 1The designated hitter in the National League.Pass the vomit bag.After that lovely imagery leaves your head, I will shift to a tone of conciliation. Listen, if you're a DH fan, kn...
Jun 18, 2020
Murph: Protest in Marin City an exercise in learning how much I did not know
Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Pretty much the last good moment of the year 2020 was when Raheem Mostert put the finishing touches on a 220-yard, four-TD day in the NFC Championship at Lev...
Jun 04, 2020
Murph’s Reading List: Best new Bay Area sports books for quarantine
Cody Glenn | 2019 May 14As 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, i...
May 28, 2020
Murph: Is it reasonable to ask MLB players take pay cut during pandemic?
Kim Klement | 2019 Oct 8As if 2020 wasn't surreal enough, we've now found ourselves somehow reliving the 1994 baseball strike in the middle of a global pandemic.Whoever is playing the pranks on us fro...
May 14, 2020
Murph: Like a bolt from the heavens, baseball is back
Andrew West/The USA | 2020 May 5 It came like a bolt from the heavens. Woke up Monday morning, headed downstairs for another "Living Room Session" with Paulie Mac, Bonnie-Jill, Copes and Markus the Wa...
May 07, 2020
Murph: Reflecting on the Little League World Series, the latest sports casualty
WILLIAM BRETZGER/THE | 2019 Aug 27 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...
Apr 30, 2020
Murph: The NFL pulled off the CoronaDraft, and it was sort of amazing
NFL Handout Photo | 2020 Apr 23 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'. He didn't call...
Apr 24, 2020
