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Murph: I’m singing a slightly different tune after seeing the NL Designated Hitter experiment
To endorse the return of “No-DH” ball in the National League is not a knee-jerk thing, it’s not a howling repudiation of the designated hitter.
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Murph: I understand the Jimmy G frustration, here’s why I’m not there yet
I get it, we live in a world where we have to feed the ‘Take Machine’. I understand.
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Murph: The case against the new home-run-or-bust brand of baseball
John Wooden once said, “there can be no progress without change; however, not all change is progress.”
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Murph: Can 49ers have the season they want to have?
Of all people, I didn’t expect our Murph & Mac platinum member “Friend of the Program” (Gentleman) Jim Nantz to knock me for a loop about the 2020 49ers.
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Murph: A dispatch from Oracle Park, where we miss our fellow Giants fans
No, the Jock Blog does not usually use datelines. But this one is different. This one is written from the ballpark.
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Murph: The ethical quandary of Pac-12, Big Ten returning to football
Loving college football on Saturdays isn’t a totally clean ethical experience in 2020.
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Murph: A simple love letter to the return of 49ers football
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.
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Murph: The San Francisco Giants’ hitting improvements are not slight, they’re drastic
The discovery of hitting the baseball for the San Francisco Giants.
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Murph: The Dodgers honored their history on Wednesday night
Here’s a sentence you may never see again in the Jock Blog…
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Murph: The Fernando Tatis Jr. mess is more nuanced than most are saying
Move over, Bobby Thomson. It’s really Fernando Tatis, Jr. who hit The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.