Brian Murphy

These are the times that try Buster Posey’s soul. Well, maybe that’s a tad dramatic for late May baseball. But you gotta grab a reader in the Jock Blog, lest he or she doom scroll somewhere else. Today’s focus is the task facing the new Giants president of baseball operations. He rode a wave of […]

I’m a Brock Purdy fan. His story is undeniable, from 262 to leading the Super Bowl in overtime. He’s polite, professional, gritty. His biggest material want in this crass market economy is a bass fishing boat. His new contract is that most elusive of things in today’s hot take world: reasonable. So how is a […]

Man, that was a three-month rush, that whole Jimmy Butler-to-the-Warriors adrenaline shot the Bay Area got. It’s over now. For the time being. It did not end in an NBA title, or even an NBA Finals appearance, much less a Western Conference finals berth. It ended with Steph Curry in various forms of street clothes […]

Look at the Golden State Warriors, making the Elite Eight. Thirty NBA teams started this ride back around Halloween 2024. Ocho remain.  Can the Dubs get past Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves, and make the Final Four? What, you gonna bet against Steph Curry and Playoff Jimmy Butler? The Warriors were 25-26 before Butler […]

Let’s hope this Jock Blog is more of a “Blip on the Radar” Blog, one that ages poorly, , like most of my takes, and we can call delete from our phones in short order. OK, here goes: this three-game Giants losing skid has my brow furrowed. Is this little 72-hour bummer — swept in […]

It’s Brandon Crawford Day on Saturday and the Hollywood screenwriters nailed the timing on this one. After all, Buster Posey — Crawford’s championship teammate two times over, and his frequent carpool companion from the East Bay to Oracle Park — is now running the Giants. Who better to roll out the red carpet for No. […]

I kept feeling it in my gut since Wednesday morning: Rockets in seven. I couldn’t shake the memory of April 6 at Chase Center, when everything seemed to change. The Rockets were no longer the Warriors’ personal toy. Amen Thompson and a pack of hungry wolves harassed the incomparable Steph Curry and held him to […]

After 20 minutes of real baseball talk with Buster Posey, it’s clear the Giants are in good hands — and even clearer that their new mantra might as well be: Get back in the dugout.

Two years ago, the Jock Blog penned an Opening Day missive and we led with this line: “Call it the Matt Beaty Moment.” Two years later, the Jock Blog pens an Opening Day missive and we will lead with this line: “Call it the Buster Posey Era opening moment.” A 2025 Giants roster with no […]

And now, a word about the forgotten Golden State Warrior. Hello again, Draymond Green. In the past six weeks, the Jock Blog has penned two odes to Steph Curry and two more to Jimmy Butler.  In the spirit of today’s “2000s Friday” on the morning show . . . did I forget about Dray? I […]