Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Darren Yamashita | 2021 Aug 21Platoons, schmatoons.Analytics, schmanalytics.Launch angle, smaunch angle.Let's talk about the truly quantifiable thing defining this 2021 Giants season:Magic.Or, as my G...

D. Ross Cameron | 2021 Aug 18 Three up. Forty-one to play. You never would have dreamed it. I didn't. Now, can they hang on? Gabe Kapler's Giants, pegged for 75.5 wins by the sharps in Vegas, soared p...

(Via Chris Mezzavilla)We love a good barroom sports argument here at the Jock Blog, and nothing stirs our loins more than the Greatest QB of All Time topic.You say Tom Brady.I say Joe Montana.And now,...

SFGiantsToday's assignment: A deep dive into why, exactly, everyone is so upset about these Giants City Connect uniforms.There must be some Freudian reason, the reactions are so intense. Or Jungian; m...

Richard Mackson | 2021 Jun 28 The Jock Blog - where Giants fans go to cope with losses to the Dodgers. It was just a month ago when I had to pen a JB officially *not* conceding the NL West to the Dodg...

Sam Navarro | 2021 Jun 1How funny that it took a foreign substance to make the All-American game a talking point around the water cooler again.I drive in every morning pre-5 am, and listen to the nati...

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports It was just a few weeks ago that the Jock Blog came at you with a searingly hot take: "Are the Giants . . . legit?" After four games and four losses against the rival...

Jayne Kamin-Oncea | 2021 May 19For whatever reason - astrological sign, DNA strand, dropped on my head when I was a baby - I've never been a 'tank' guy.No, not 'tank' as in dunk tank, Patton's US Army...

Charles LeClaire | 2021 May 13This being Friday, a day that does, in fact, end in "y" - I fully expect the Giants to win their game against the Pirates in Pittsburgh.And this being a Jock Blog, I full...

Nobody looked better in the road 'San Francisco' jersey than Willie Mays. Period. End of story. If Peter Magowan didn't love Willie Mays so much, decent chance we never get the ballpark in China Basin...