Brian Murphy

No, the Jock Blog does not usually use datelines. But this one is different. This one is written from the ballpark. 

Loving college football on Saturdays isn’t a totally clean ethical experience in 2020.

For a region going thru an apocalyptic nightmare of air quality, fire destruction and a crippling pandemic, we sure do it have good on the sports scene.

The discovery of hitting the baseball for the San Francisco Giants.

Here’s a sentence you may never see again in the Jock Blog…

Move over, Bobby Thomson. It’s really Fernando Tatis, Jr. who hit The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.

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 the Cal marching band in Strawberry Canyon. That’s pretty weird stuff.

He’s not here for your logic or well-reasoned explanations.

And all of us getting to know Kapler, a man hired nearly ten months ago, a man yet to manage a game for the beloved Gigantes, and a dude already morphing through different iterations as a fan base watches.

You would think he would know about the danger of shark-infested waters.