Murph: The story of Alex Smith is unlike any in the history of Bay Area sports
The 49ers play against Alex Smith this Sunday.
Brian Murphy
Murph: The 49ers’ lousy season has somehow gotten worse
So 2020, the year with a million pejorative adjectives attached to it, actually just got *worse* for the 49ers.
Murph: As we try to accept Klay situation, a look to the Warriors’ future
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.
Murph: If you’re looking for normalcy in 2020, Tiger at Augusta should do the trick
Can’t tell you how many Jock Blogs in the last eight months have centered around the search for normalcy
Murph: Would the Giants really trade Brandon Crawford to Yankees?
What we need is a good old-fashioned Hot Stove League session.
Murph: We’ll never forget Kevin Cash’s decision in Game 6, but maybe that’s a good thing for baseball
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.
Murph: I’m singing a slightly different tune after seeing the NL Designated Hitter experiment
To endorse the return of “No-DH” ball in the National League is not a knee-jerk thing, it’s not a howling repudiation of the designated hitter.
Murph: I understand the Jimmy G frustration, here’s why I’m not there yet
I get it, we live in a world where we have to feed the ‘Take Machine’. I understand.
Murph: The case against the new home-run-or-bust brand of baseball
John Wooden once said, “there can be no progress without change; however, not all change is progress.”
Murph: Can 49ers have the season they want to have?
Of 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.