Category Archives: Brian Murphy
Murph: I’m singing a slightly different tune after seeing the NL Designated Hitter experiment
Kyle Terada | 2020 Sep 26Avid readers of the Jock Blog will not be surprised to hear this, but I'm pleased to hear the 2021 baseball season will feature no DH in the National League, according to earl...
Oct 22, 2020
Murph: The case against the new home-run-or-bust brand of baseball
Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Times I like the word "true": - Season 1 of "True Detective". - When the deep-voiced narrator on the old "Dragnet" told us, "the story you are about to hear is true." ...
Oct 08, 2020
Murph: Can 49ers have the season they want to have?
Danielle Parhizkaran | 2020 Sep 27Of all people, I didn't expect our Murph & Mac platinum member "Friend of the Program" (Gentleman) Jim Nantz to knock me for a loop about the 2020 49ers.Generally...
Oct 02, 2020
Murph: The ethical quandary of Pac-12, Big Ten returning to football
Kirby Lee | 2019 Dec 6 I had the blessing and the curse to be raised by a man who valued ethics. This makes many things in the modern world - and today I am speaking of the return of college football ...
Sep 17, 2020
Murph: The San Francisco Giants’ hitting improvements are not slight, they’re drastic
Kelley L Cox | 2020 Aug 23February 26, 2020 was about six lifetimes ago for most of us. Just a few tiny things have happened since then: a global pandemic, roiling racial injustice protests, a nation ...
Sep 03, 2020
Murph: The Dodgers honored their history on Wednesday night
Kyle Terada | 2020 Aug 26 Here's a sentence you may never see again in the Jock Blog: Way to go, Dodgers. That's right. I wrote it. And it took every ounce of repressing my scarred 1970s childhood - I...
Aug 27, 2020
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
