The Red Sox still are not hitting the ball, but that is no revelation if you have been following the ALCS.

Home runs and power shots don’t make it in the postseason because good pitchers can shut you down.

The Yankees are handling the bat better than Boston and they are picking up hits after walks, which have led to runs, and that was the story of Tuesday’s game.

Karim Garcia, who has a striking resemblance to Jeremy Giambi, came through with a clutch two out bases loaded single driving in the first two NY runs.

Click below for more on Grady Little. [Read more →]

Bruce Magowan covers the Giants for the SF Examiner as well as being the host of “The Insiders”, KNBR’s Weekend baseball pre and post game shows.

No one feels for the Giants like Bruce, but he is an astute baseball person who calls them like he sees them.

Check out Bruce’s column below, it is a firsthand look at the Marlins-Giants playoff series including insights that I hadn’t heard before.

Thanks, Bruce…

Marty Lurie [Read more →]

The sole remaining issue for the Giants is whether they are going to overcome the Braves in their race for homefield advantage and, in any event, how best to position themselves for the playoffs and the following World Series. In any short series, whether the initial five game setup or in the following seven game battles, pitching will be the usual predominating factor.

Click Below for More on the Giants, thanks Ed! [Read more →]

Folks, the Daily Dish will return on Monday.

Have a nice weekend,

Marty Lurie [Read more →]

Another amazing day of baseball on Wednesday.

The Cubs rallied from a 6-0 deficit to knock the Cards off 8-7. Tony La Russa and Dusty Baker are not getting along. They both live in the Bay Area, see each other from time to time at other sporting events during the winter, but during the season they fight like cats and dogs.

We all know how much Tony cares about our four footed friends (cats and dogs), but he is fanning the competitive flames with his comments about Baker and the way the Cubs pitchers play the game.

The Card’s manager challenged Baker to a fight yesterday after Matt Clement and Dan Haren took turns hitting one another with pitches.

Last year in the playoffs, Tony chastised Kenny Lofton and Dusty ( then with the Giants) for the way they play the game. Now Tony is critizing Kerry Wood and Mark Prior for pitching up and in, and claims that the Cub batters wiil be “dealt with” accordingly. Tony played with the toughest pitcher of the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s in KC in 1963, Hall of Famer Early Wynn, who would knock his mother down at the plate if she dug in, I wonder if Tony critcized Wynn, a 300 game winner, back then.

In the midst of all this, these two teams are fighting it out with Houston for first place in the NL Central.

Both bullpens are spent. After four excruciating games, they face each other again today with Shawn Estes who has trouble going five good innings facing the more capable Brett Tomko for St. Louis.

These two teams have been bitter rivals for over 100 years, this series is absolutely special not only because of the Cardinals lineup and the Cubs starting pitching plus Sosa and Alou (five hits Wednesday), but because two of the best managers in baseball are trying to knock each others block off and I like the action.

The Cards have a better chance of winning today simply because Tomko can win and Estes is so inconsistent that the Cards should have plenty of runners on base, not a good formula for success.

Click below for more! [Read more →]

L: I’m joined by one of the top rookies in the American League, and that’s Rocco Baldelli of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I say that name, and it brings back John Boccabella, names like that. Do any of the PA announcers around the league have fun with you with the name?

B: Yeah, I think a couple of them do. I think our home PA announcer in Tampa Bay probably has the most fun with it. He takes a long time to say the name. [Read more →]

Eulogy by Bill Gould

Eulogy by Rabbi Janet Marder

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L:I’m here with one of the legends of broadcasting, and that is Keith Jackson.  Keith is working the game tonight.  What do you think of this, coming back, how ESPN has brought some of the great voices back to the game?

J:I don’t know if I agree with it (laughs).  But I think it’s fun probably for old-timers, anyway.  I haven’t done a baseball game since 1986, and I haven’t been to any, either.  The last game I did was the Houston-New York Mets, that 16-inning thing in the dome.  But it’ll be fun.  I haven’t been here in a good long time, either, and it’s pretty fancy trappings now that they finally got it fixed.  But we were doing games when they had the hammer throwers here, and Reggie and all those guys, the Joe Rudi’s and what have you, and we live in British Columbia now in the summertime, so we watch the Mariners quite a bit up there.  They’re entertaining.  These are two of the most entertaining teams in baseball. [Read more →]

Newly added Audio Interviews:

Steve McCatty

Buck O’Neill

Larry Doby

Joe Falls

Ernie Harwell

and more! [Read more →]

Marty Lurie announces that he and former Oakland Athletic second baseman and current Arizona Diamondbacks major league scout Shooty Babitt will cohost a new one hour unique baseball show each Saturday night on KFRC 610 AM Radio immediately follwing the conclusion of the Oakland Athletics Extra Innings call in show.

The show will premiere on July 19th, 2003 originating each week from Crogan’s Montclair, popular sports restaurant/bar located in the Montclair section of Oakland. [Read more →]