GUESTS:
TOPICS:
TRIP:
-THE A IS A NICE RNOVATION
-TV TIME ON CALHOUN CATCH
-BEER AND A DOG IS $22.50 AT LAKERS GAME , 20 AT ANGELS
-BASBEALL BETTER SPECTATOR SPORT....
-LAKERS NEED A LOT
-BUTLER KEY FOR WOLVES
-LA TRAFFIC WORSE --CUTTING YOU OFF WHEN U HIT TURN SIGNAL
MASTERS:
-WHO? - PTRICK REED WINS --ANYTHING MORE MENTALLY TOUGH THEN HANGING ON AT THE MASTERS
-THE MEDIA IS BAD AT PREDICTIONS - TIGER
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Masters final round draws 8.7 overnight rating for final round on CBS. Up 14% from 7.6 last year (playoff win for Sergio) and 8.5 in 2016 (Danny Willett win after Spieth collapse). Spieth's win in 2015 drew a 9.6 (Phil finished No. 2, Tiger played, Rory No. 4)
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WWE:
-ROUSEY HAPPY SHE LOST UFC FIGHTS NOW
NFL:
RAIDERS: MACK NO SHBOWS---WHAT DOES THIS GUY HAVE TO PROVE? BAD START...
-DRAFT COMING --TRADE DOWN?
REID - STILL NOT SIGNED -- MMQB: --VISITING BENGALS
I think I can’t say this enough: If San Francisco safety Eric Reid does not get signed, it sends a chilling message about free speech to every NFL player who would think about protesting anything. Colin Kaepernick being unsigned is reprehensible enough. But if Reid, Kaepernick’s protest partner with the Niners in 2016, is not signed to a representative safety FIGHT contract this spring, every player will know the league’s mantra: Get in line, or this will happen to you when your contract expires—no matter how good you are.
GIANTS:
-JUST HANG AROUND UNTIL BUM AND SHARK GET BACK
-GOOD TO SEE CUTCH HIT
EARLY BATS AT AAA
Tyler Beede: Assigned to San Jose from Sacramento on April 5. The Giants moved Beede from Sacramento to San Jose so he could make a start on Thursday rather than risk being rained out of a start in Tacoma on Friday. Beede will be strongly considered to make his major league debut with the big league Giants on Wednesday. In his start with San Jose, he struggled with his command early but didn’t allow a hit until the fifth inning. Beede’s official line was one run allowed on one hit with three walks and four strikeouts in five innings.
BLACH V DODGERS:
And none of them have fared better than Ty Blach.
The unassuming left-hander faced the Dodgers for the fifth time in his career Sunday. He held them to a run on four hits in six innings. He threw a tidy 81 pitches. His career ERA against them actually ticked up, to 1.41. It’s still the lowest of any Giants starting pitcher (minimum five starts) over these 60 years.
With Bumgarner’s pitching hand in a cast, Blach stepped in and outpitched Kershaw on Opening Day. He brought front-of-the-rotation presence to Sunday’s rematch, too.
He did not outduel Kershaw this time, but he pitched the Dodgers’ three-time Cy Young Award winner to a near standstill.
The Giants lost 2-1 in 10 innings because it’s hard to be perfect over the stretch of a season, or even an afternoon, and the Giants played a subtly imperfect game.
BELT PISSED:
Gorkys Hernandez made a mistake on the bases. Austin Jackson didn’t get a bunt down. Right-hander Pierce Johnson missed one location in the 10th inning to Kyle Farmer, who hit a run-scoring double. Brandon Belt got rung up by umpire Bruce Dreckman on a game-ending pitch that he insisted was not only out of the strike zone but not close enough to merit a protection swing.
Belt said he looked at a replay of the high fastball from Kenley Jansen.
“But I didn’t have to,” said Belt, who stranded Hunter Pence at second base with the tying run. “They’re humans back there, definitely, no doubt. But that’s just too far out. It should never happen. It was easily, easily too high. There’s not too much else to say about it. It just wasn’t a strike.”
A night earlier, Andrew McCutchen fouled off a half-dozen of those high fastballs with two strikes before he got a pitch from Wilmer Font that he could drive for a game-winning, three-run home run. But mention the phrase “too close to take” to Belt and watch his eyes narrow.
CUTCH SATURDAY NIGHT:
Six hits. A 12-pitch at-bat in the 14th inning. A three-run home run to erase a one-run deficit and walk off your archrival. In your third game in front of your new fans. For your first home run as a Giant.
It was one more life event in four months stuffed with them. Not long before the whirlwind trade in January that turned the career Pirates star into a Giant, he and his wife, Maria, welcomed a mini whirlwind: their firstborn, a boy they named Steel.
“So it’s a lot that transpired that created that moment,” McCutchen said.
“That’s exactly what you dream of, those moments. At the end of the day, you have to want that moment. You can’t shy away. I live for those moments. When they come, I’m ready to go. That’s my mindset. You don’t want to take away moments like that.”
It would be for business, even if the league wants to speed up games. McCutchen’s at-bat lasted five minutes and 16 seconds while ending a game that — this is wild but true — lasted five hours and 16 minutes.
COLOGNE THE KEY?
The cologne’s the difference,” McCutchen admitted.
Sandoval douses himself before games and reapplies liberally between at-bats. He approached McCutchen prior to Saturday’s game and was more persistent than a Macy’s tester.
“I got something for you,” Sandoval said.
“All right,” McCutchen said.
“You’re my pick today,” Sandoval said.
“OK, cool,” McCutchen said.
Sandoval gave McCutchen a cologne cloud. By the end of the night, McCutchen finished with six hits and six spritzes.
“We kept joking about it as the game went on,” McCutchen said. “Every hit, he’d come down.”
MLB:
MOLINA: BE READY TO FIGHT
-OHTANI
-REPLAYS AVE 1:24 --STILL TOO LONG
MAC: COULD HAVE HIT 70 WITHOUT PED'S ...THEN WHY Take them???
Mark McGwire insists he didn't need to use performance-enhancing drugs to hit 70 home runs, telling The Athletic in an interview published Monday that he would have accomplished that feat without help.
"Absolutely," McGwire said. "I just know myself. I just know. I was a born home run hitter. I mean, unfortunately, I did [take PEDs]. And I've regretted that. I've talked about that. I regretted it. I didn't need to. That's the thing. Didn't need to."
As a slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals, McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, setting a single-season record. Twelve years later, he admitted in a televised interview with Bob Costas that he was using PEDs when he set the mark.
McGwire told The Athletic that he wasn't prepared for the question when Costas asked him about PEDs. McGwire said that had there been testing, there was "no way" he would have used PEDs.
"There wasn't anything going on [to keep the sport clean]," McGwire said. "The game has done a terrific job of doing what they're doing now. I commend them for doing it. I think we all wish [testing] went on when we had played. But unfortunately, it didn't."
WARRIORS:
KLAY'S OFFENSE HELPS, BUT WARRIORS NEED TO D UP - CAN THEY FLIP THAT SWITCH:
This wasn't one of his all-time opponents, and doing it against Phoenix backups isn't the most impressive thing. But Thompson's 34 points in Sunday's 117-100 win over the host Suns was a glimpse of what the Warriors still have in the holster. He scored 22 points in the first quarter and it felt like another historic explosion in the making. He went quiet until a 10-point burst in a span of 2:14 midway through the fourth quarter put the game away.
KLAY HANS'T BEEN KLAY:
Truth is, this season hasn't featured the big Klay games. This was just his third game this year with at least 30 points. He had 33 on Oct. 20 at New Orleans and 38 on Jan. 17 at Chicago.
Last season, Thompson scored at least 30 nine times, including a 41-point game and his famous 60-point barrage in 29 minutes. The season before that, he scored 30 or more 17 times, including four 40-point games.
KERR TAKES BACK THEY DIDN'T CARE --BUT WANTS THEM TO BE A TOP DEFENSEIVE TEAM:
The gist: Kerr said it was a poor word choice. He said he was speaking about their lack of execution on defense. But he said he realized in hindsight that saying players don't care is an attack on their character.
To a man, in the locker room, they did not like Kerr's characterization after the Indiana game. Durant all but made that clear when he calmly disagreed with Kerr in his postgame interview.
But no discussion was had about it. There was no meeting with Kerr and Durant about it. None of that was needed because Kerr amended his dialogue and switched to encouragement.
-FIRST ROUND
-PELICANS LOSS CONCERNING
-JAZZ HOT COULD BE 2ND ROUND
-SOME SEASONS A TEAM DOESN'T HAVE IT ---MAYBE THE WARRIORS DON;'T...
-WHY NOT BETTER DEFENSE VS PELICANS?
-QUINN COOK - WARRIORS TO KEEP TEAM TOGETHER NEED A COUPLE MORE OF THESE..... JONES, LOONEY, HAVEN'T GOTTEN MUCH FROM THOSE 1'
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NBA:
-BIGGEST REASON YOU CAN'T COMPARE ERAS---YOU NEVER SAW THEM PLAY ---EVERYONE IS ALWAYS THE GREATEST --WHO SAW ELGIN BAYLOR PLAY?
OTHER:
-TRIP ---
TRAGIC
“Every single person. Everyone in hockey. That’s exactly why it hits home, because everyone O REVIEW: has been on the bus before.”
—Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid, who rode buses in junior hockey, on the crash involving the Humboldt Broncos of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League that killed 15 team members.
III
“It’s gotta rip the heart out of your chest.”
—Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock, who is from Saskatchewan, breaking up while speaking to reporters Saturday.
PATERNO REVIEW:
I think if, in “Paterno,” HBO intended to show Joe Paterno as an altogether doddering old man who had no business coaching Penn State in his last few years, HBO succeeded. I have no dog in this fight, and there is no question whatsoever that Paterno was allowed to coach that team far too long. But was it really that bad? Was he really that bad? Check out Conor Orr’s commentary on “Paterno.”
PETER KING:
WTF --WHY DO I HAVE TO STOP DRINKING FOR A MONTH? WHY WOULD YOU STOP SOMEHTTHING YOU ENJOY?
l. Beernerdness: Happy National Beer Day! I celebrated with Vitamin Water Zero lemonade. Haven’t you heard? It’s Sober April!
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