The Murph Blog

By Brian Murphy Kyle Shanahan canceled next week's 49ers workouts, meaning we won't see the 49ers until late July meaning - gosh, better knock out a Jock Blog assessing their place in the NFL universe after the Myles Garrett trade to the Rams. Or, in my alternate title: "How Shohei Ohtani Became A Ram." You k...

By Brian Murphy Man. You have to feel a little something for Tony Vitello, manager of the San Francisco Giants. He's been a skipper in The Show for 56 games, and it's been a - how can we put this? - awful ride so far. His team is 22-34. His team's fans are as mad as anyone can remember. His team has heard boos at home,...

By Brian Murphy If you go back and read the reports from October 1, 2024, you'll remember how we all felt the day Buster Posey took over the baseball operations job. It was pretty darn glowing. Buster was back. Leading the Giants. Buster said he wanted to be in the "memory-making" business. Let's go. Now all ...

As this Jock Blog is being scribbled on Wednesday afternoon, May 13, 2026, the Giants are 18-24 and that dog don't hunt, sports fans. However! Intrigue remains supreme around the local nine. Buster Posey's reign as president of baseball operations has fans both dying to see the hometown hero succeed, and dying as his t...

By Brian Murphy Is Steve Kerr sticking around to coach the Golden State Warriors? Do the Warriors want Steve Kerr to stick around? And if so, what will the roster look like when Steve Kerr sticks around? Geez, man. I dunno. Ask someone in the inner circle - like Greg Silver. But if our chipper midday wunderkind won't s...

By Brian Murphy All right, all right. No more on-air morning rants for the KNBR social media guys to clip and post. Darn you, click-bait social team! Ha. Of course the Jock Blog stands by Friday morning's vent session. The daily-double loser of twin walk-offs in the City of Brotherly Despair last Thursday felt like sea...

By Brian Murphy "Build through the draft", wise elders of 49ers championship teams said, and Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Keena Turner and Jerry Rice rose and waved to the crowd. "How's that working out for the 49ers lately?", the same elders asked, as Jake Moody, Cam Latu, Danny Gray and Trey Lance sl...

By Brian Murphy Was it worth it? All the justifiable hand-wringing about age and injury? Acquiring players like Al Horford, who remembers life before mobile phones? Trading young and robust Jonathan Kuminga for more brittle Kristaps Porzingis? Building a roster older and slower and farther and farther away from a champ...

By Brian Murphy At the risk of posting a third straight Jock Blog about the Giants . . . Man, the Giants seem to be rattling some Bay Area sports fan cages. A 3-8 start will do that. It will cause a pitcher who has only worn the orange and black for three career starts to note that "everyone was s-ting on us"...

By Brian Murphy The Jock Blog spent last week bitching and moaning about Netflix, and the Giants went 2-3 in the post-Netflix era as they start a seven-game homestead Thursday night, so what can we bitch and moan about now? I know, I know - Casey Schmitt at first base, right? How about we refrain from the bitch and moa...