Brian Murphy

On the same day George Springer signed with the Toronto Blue Jays, new Giants pitcher Alex Wood told reporters about his movement profile, his horizontal and ‘vert’ break, and his perceived movement — “metrically speaking”, of course.

James Harden is a Brooklyn Net. God bless the NBA.

I suppose I should start the Lightly-Read 2021 Jock Blog with a smoldering hot take about how the 49ers’ 6-10 season was a sign of decline, how a reboot is in order, and how Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch should be on the hot seat.

Here it is, the last Jock Blog of 2020.

The 49ers play against Alex Smith this Sunday.

So 2020, the year with a million pejorative adjectives attached to it, actually just got *worse* for the 49ers.

This Jock Blog is being penned just 24 hours after the first phone alert that Klay Thompson — no, not Klay! — went down in a pickup basketball game in Los Angeles with what was feared to be a significant heel injury.

Can’t tell you how many Jock Blogs in the last eight months have centered around the search for normalcy

What we need is a good old-fashioned Hot Stove League session.

Devoted readers of the LRJB (Lightly-Read Jock Blog, for you newcomers) could see this one coming like a Cody Bellinger two-cheeked swing for the fence.