Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Kirby Lee | 2023 Aug 9If you've read the Giants beat writers this week, you're well versed on the storyline of Gabe Kapler flaunting a little snappage when asked about pressing the wrong buttons in ga...

D. Ross Cameron | 2022 Aug 13And now a word of sympathy for Gabe Kapler.It's tough to not be Bruce Bochy.And that's no knock on Kapler. He's Gabe. He's the hip-hop-listenin', Instagram-influencin', sh...

Lucas Peltier | 2022 Nov 9Now let's dive into the always-dangerous world of evaluating the Giants' performance at the trade deadline.How dangerous? Think back to 2012, when the Dodgers acquired All-St...

Charles LeClaire | 2023 Jul 14Look at Camilo Doval, turning Gabe Kapler into a 20th-century manager.And I mean that as a compliment. To both parties.Kapler blew into the Bay Area before the 2020 seaso...

Nick Turchiaro | 2023 Jun 29From the same slice of cyberspace that gave you a somewhat-seething Opening Day Jock Blog (remember the indignity of the 'Mat Beaty Moment'?), I give you a Giants mid-seaso...

Rob Schumacher/The R | 2022 Dec 17The Chris Paul trade.Here's the thing: I don't hate it.(Ducking to avoid flying objects)Mind, I hear all the negatives, and I understand: He's 38. His hamst...

John Hefti | 2023 Jun 19There was something different coming through my TV and radio Monday night during the Giants' wild comeback win over the Padres.Was it the sound of . . . Bonds Era/Boc...

Jasen Vinlove | 2022 Oct 29Let me talk to my golf people here for a minute.(Waits while room of 49ers, Giants, Warriors diehards clears the Jock Blog lounge . . . )What are we going to do wi...

What fresh hell is this: an NBA Finals without Steph Curry and the Warriors?I know, I know. There were Finals matchups in 2020 (sorta, kinda, not really) and 2021 without Steph and the Warriors, but y...

Kyle Terada | 2022 Sep 18Here come the 49ers.You remember them. The franchise that calls all the shots around here.Yes, the Warriors and Steph have those four rings, and an impending summer'...