Jul
10
Ex-Giant Wins Bunt Contest
July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Fritz
Daly City- Former Giant Dustan Mohr captured this years Bunt Contest as he laid down a bunt down the third base line just keeping it fair to pass Diamond Backs third baseman Augie Ojeda. Read more
Jun
24
Giants Win First Game of the Season…
June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
San Francisco- Or so it would seem. The San Francisco Giants won in dramatic fashion this afternoon against a expansion team New York Yankees snapping a 8 game losing streak making the Giants 1-8 out of the last 9 games. Read more
Jun
20
Newsom Serious About New Stadium Deal For 49ers
June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“Who wouldn’t want to play on a radioactive dump site?” -Aaron Smith back up place kicker for the San Francisco 49ers
by fritz
San Francisco- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took the NFL top brass on a tour of a old naval shipyard Tuesday at Hunter’s Point in San Francisco for the proposed site of the new 49ers stadium. Newsom’s tactic was to sell the National Football League on giving a loan to the 49ers to build a new stadium which was only half of Newsom’s “master” plan.
Late in the meeting the light dimmed low and some techno music started playing with a laser light show in a board room at City Hall where Newsom brought out a power point presentation about the future of the 49ers. Using the left over radioactive material from the naval shipyard where testing was done and never cleaned up, Newsom planned to mutate a “super-human-radioactive football team” that would dominate for an estimated 20 years. The power point presentation showed doctored photos of football players with four arms and freakish Read more
Jun
17
Driving Range to Open Up in Visitacion Valley
June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“It’s the only driving range in golf where you need your flak jacket.” Dirk Stubble Head of Security at First Tee Driving Range
Contributed to Crooked Street by Luke Boggs
San Francisco- Clyde Thurgood is carrying his golf bag. In it he has his driver, his 1 and 5 wood, several irons including a pitching wedge and a sand wedge a putter and a 9 mm hand gun. Thurgood is hoping to fit in a round of golf at Gleneagles nine hole golf course. “I don’t play golf without my nine.” Thurgood explained. “ You never know when some sucka is going to try to clip you while your putting.”
Thurgood is one of many avid Visitacion Valley golfers that will be excited to use a new driving range to open next year at a large playground at Visitacion Valley Middle School. The new range called “First Tee” will have a 30-by-60 foot putting green and a netted driving range, along with a pawn shop and liquor store.
This idea was the brain child of Sandy Tatum, a former USGA president, when she was driving around Visitacion Valley for “Shits and giggles”. She happened upon a empty middle school playground and the dream was born.
“At first I think the idea was to have a pawn shop there and liquor store but then city planning department Read more
Jun
6
Stanford Tries Radical New Stadium Design
June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Zero fans means zero hassles and that cuts down on the bottom dollar.
by Fritz
Stanford– The 115-year old Cal-Stanford Football game has been apart of sports for at least the last 100 years. Now that is all going to change. Due to a radical new stadium design for the Stanford Stadium fans will no longer be able to go and watch the game.
Architect Hewey Johnson from Hewey Architects & More has come up with a jaw dropping design for the new Standford Stadium. The renovation will not only cost $90 million to do, but will cut out the audience seating completely.
“My idea was to cut out all the noise and the crowds and make the field more handicap accessible.” Hewey said. “What happens at football games where you have thousands of people? They drink and and eat and leave garbage all over the place. Well people have to pick all the garbage up. I’m simply helping the littering problem. “
Assistant athletic director Marty Tinker had this to say. “I’m not sure why we picked this design. I think the committee was clearly Read more
May
30
Benitez Demands Contract Extention Dispite Giving Up Game Winning Run.
May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Fritz
San Francisco- Armando Benitez demanded a contract extention from the San Francisco Giants top brass after Tuesday’s loss in bottom of the 12th inning against the New York Mets.
The Giants opened up a road trip in New York Tuesday where a pitching duel was on the big stage between hot San Francisco rookie Tim Lincecum vs. Oliver Perez. Although both pitcher pitched 7 innings, neither twirler got the win and it was left up to the bullpin. Yada yada yada… we go into the bottom of the 12th inning and the Giants are up by one. Benitez balks once to move Jose Reyes into scoring position and after a bunt he balks again to score the tying run. The next pitch Carlos Delgado hits a no doubt homerun over the right field wall to win the game.
The reporters and teammates alike were shocked when Benitez, after losing the game for the Giants, demanded a contract extention and a re-signing bonus. On top of the $46 million 1/2 season extention he demanded that on games where Read more
