The Murph Blog

By Brian Murphy I do believe it was George W. Bush who once said of a president's inaugural address: "That was some weird s-t." I'm going with that pat description to summarize Wednesday's Netflix Nonsense at the corner of Third and King. Buster Posey called the Giants' 7-0 loss to the New York Yankees "...

By Brian Murphy Six. Days. Away. Giants baseball, sports fans. Get ready to start your angst. The Giants host the New York Yankees - heard of them? - on Wednesday night, March 25 and Logan Webb will throw the first pitch at 5:05 pm at Oracle Park and it's all so cool and thrilling that Netflix is going to stream it for...

By Brian Murphy Presumed Chicago Bears fan Ferris Bueller is the guy who gave American pop culture the catch phrase "life comes at ya fast" - but even the rascal Bueller can't imagine the speed of change in NFL free agency. Like, "Maxx Crosby is a Raven and then a Raider comes at ya fast", or "...

By Brian Murphy On the eve of NFL free agency, where are we at with your San Francisco 49ers? Quick landscape check: The Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champs. The LA Rams came within an eyelash of beating those Seahawks in the NFC Championship. The Rams just traded for cornerback Trent McDuffie, who has made two All-...

By Brian Murphy The Jock Blog is about to lead with a sentence heretofore unwritten in the history of Jock Blog-dom: The Atlanta Hawks (29-31) play at the Washington Wizards (16-41) Thursday - GET YA POPCORN READY. I'd have said that the phrase 'GET YA POPCORN READY' has actually *never* been affiliated with a Hawks-Wi...

By Brian Murphy I've left very little doubt when we talk about it - Buster Posey is the guy the Giants need and want as president of baseball operations. The championship pedigree is unquestioned. The love of the franchise and The City, pure. But it appears we will have to enjoy the Posey Era under an unspoken financia...

By Brian Murphy So the city and county of San Francisco shined like a diamond during Super Bowl week? As the late City poet laureate Herb Caen might have said: No duh. Actually, Caen would have penned an ode to the quiet of Sunday morning fog, or the distant clang of a cable car bell late on a winter night, or the furt...

By Brian Murphy The fever dream of Giannis Antetokounmpo wearing the same jersey as Clifford Ray, Alton Lister, Joe Smith and Bobby Sura has never been closer to reality than it is right now. Golden State Giannis, anyone? And if it happens, would Joe Lacob officially change the "G" in Golden State to a silent...

By Brian Murphy The fever dream of Giannis Antetokounmpo wearing the same jersey as Clifford Ray, Alton Lister, Joe Smith and Bobby Sura has never been closer to reality than it is right now. Golden State Giannis, anyone? And if it happens, would Joe Lacob officially change the "G" in Golden State to a silent...

By Brian Murphy Dos Equis beer returned 'The Most Interesting Man in the World' to our TV sets during the Indiana-Miami College Football Playoff, a welcome blast. "Stay thirsty, my friends" are four words we can live by. And what a coincidence - the Warriors just returned "The Most Frustrating and Intri...