Brian Murphy

Not looking to pick a fight with my good friends here at KNBR.com, but . . . we’re going to have to do something about already referring to Giants rookie Christian Arroyo as “The Kid.”

Twenty-nine games into a 162-game season, we went all Lunatic Fringe on Giants general manager Bobby Evans. On our show Thursday morning, just hours after the Giants won only their second series of the season and reached the magical 11-win mark, I decided to lay bare the most naked of fears in a Giants fans […]

The Giants re-assembled the same roster in the hopes that the key cogs would produce better numbers than they did in 2016. So far, the bats and the Giants are proving the old adage that hope, sadly, is not a strategy.

On our radio show in the morning, Zaza Pachulia told us he got emotional when Kerr told the team in a private meeting he’d be stepping aside for some healing time. Pachulia said the specific details of Kerr’s back pain hell, presumably with nausea and relentless headaches, affected him on a level more than player-coach. “When you care about someone, it’s hard to hear this,” Zaza told us.

Bottom line: April matters. History is watching. This roster can’t continue for too long in its current. static state. Otherwise, this 2017 season just might continue to be a tough little watch.

My Jock Blog of March 14, headlined: “Start Thinking About That 2 Seed, Warriors Fans.” Yo! Can I get a do-over?

Even though he is guaranteed $21 million this year — and a $7.5 million buyout next year, too — there is no guarantee he will earn that money on the Giants’ 25-man roster.

Does that mean the NBA championship parade is gone, poof, just like that? No way. As we all know, the playoffs are an entirely different beast, and anything can happen, as I was just saying to my good friends Draymond Green, Marshawn Lynch and Bob Myers in a luxury suite at an A’s game.

We joked about it this morning on the air, but there was a grain of truth: When was the last time in the court of Bay Area sporting public opinion that the 49ers’ stock ticked higher than the Warriors stock?

It’s been one week to the day since Marcin Gortat threw Zaza Pachulia into Kevin Durant’s knee — The Zaza Chuck Heard ‘Round the World — and I think we’re all just now coming to our senses, as if it took this long to comprehend, time serving as the smelling salt to jerk us awake. […]