197 Results for san francisco giants

Fantasy World: Baseballapalooza!

Rick Paulas

It's a scientific fact that 1994 was a great year for music. (And not just because it marked the end of the first phase of New Kids on the Block.) For...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 04, 2009

Fantasy World: Picking the Worst

Rick Paulas

...a stolen base), if you remove that flash-in-the-pan game out of his season stats, Giants first baseman Travis Ishikawa is hitting .219 with zero HRs,12 RBI, 10 runs and nary a...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 29, 2009

Fantasy World: The Dude Abides

Rick Paulas

Two weekends ago out here in the horizontal mess of Los Angeles was another incarnation of the Lebowski Fest, a two-day event that celebrates all of t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 21, 2009

Fantasy World: Substitute Bats

Rick Paulas

A month and change into the baseball season, we can start to see a few patterns. Carl Crawford is really fast. Roy Halladay is a pretty good pitcher. ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 13, 2009

Fantasy World: Justify My Trade

Rick Paulas

My first trade of the year is in the books, and I'm already second-guessing it. It's only natural any blockbuster trade comes with nightly fits of i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 23, 2009

A 2009 National League preview: Viral Video Style

Rick Paulas

Ever wonder which NL club would best represent "Monkey Smells Finger?" We are here for you with the previews. And the videos.

Story | Conversation | March 31, 2009

Fantasy World: The Battle Fallout

Rick Paulas

While you were distracted by Bud Selig's favorite child—the awesome, amazing, fantastic, etc. WBC—a whole lot has been happening in spring...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 26, 2009

Fantasy World: The Wieting List

Rick Paulas

Every season, usually around May, a few youngsters who start the season down on the farm get that one phone call they're never going to forget—t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009

Fantasy World: Draft Lessons

Rick Paulas

Last week, I participated in two mock drafts with the ESPN Fantasy collective. While the experiment had its downsides (having to actually set an alarm...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009

Fantasy World: The Over/Under

Rick Paulas

Show me a list, and I'll show you a dozen people who think it sucks. No matter if the list is Hottest Actress from Charmed, Scariest Star Trek Villa...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2009

Fantasy World: Diaper Dandies

Rick Paulas

What do newborns and grandparents both have in common? They both wear diapers. It's an old joke, but as with any gut-buster, there's a profound mean...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009

Tim Lincecum: Behind the Shoot

Chris Sprow

...He found one soon enough. We set up in a studio, and Lincecum, lost inside a baggy Giants uniform, fired pitch after pitch in front of a white screen, his form a consistent and violent...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 25, 2009

In This Issue: A Feature on Tim Lincecum

Tim Keown, via Mag.Com Staff

...for our new issue is San Francisco Giants P Tim Lincecum. Lo and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 25, 2009

Just Go With It

Tim Keown, ESPN The Magazine

Big league scouts told Tim Lincecum he was too small to succeed. Fantasy owners passed him over because they weren't sure he'd hold up with that crazy motion. But he has news for all of 'em: it wasn't magic dust that helped him win the Cy Young Award.

Story | Conversation | February 24, 2009

Fantasy World: The Debate Begins

Rick Paulas

Leno or Letterman. Batman or Superman. Boomer or Starbuck. These choices have strained relationships for years; the disputes are so heated is that the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 18, 2009