RealClearSports: At Last, Giants Fans Take to the Streets

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- They're taking over the streets today. Classic San Francisco. Not for gay rights, however. Or to legalize marijuana - that measure on the California ballot failed to pass Tuesday night.

Or to get the troops out of Afghanistan.

It's to celebrate the Giants' first World Series triumph in San Francisco. It's to celebrate success.

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SF Examiner: Momentum, maybe fate, with Giants

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

So close now. So near the impossible dream. So hard not to believe in the possibility. So difficult to make yourself think the Giants can’t win the World Series.

No, they’re not there yet. They still need one victory. One magic victory that sits up there like a pop fly waiting to be grabbed.

“We have baseball left,” cautioned Bruce Bochy. “We still have work to do.”

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Copyright 2010 SF Newspaper Company

RealClearSports: Aubrey Huff Finds Home in San Francisco

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Funny how life treats us. And how we treat life. Aubrey Huff was the man nobody wanted, the man of whom it was written in one of those blogs, "he cannot perform at the dish.'' For someone whose baseball reputation was as a hitter, that's about as bad as it gets.

His career had been spent with bad teams, Tampa Bay in the early 2000s, the Orioles in the late 2000s. He had publicly called Baltimore a horsespit town, or something close to that. He was known as only an ordinary defensive player.

And in the opening days of January 2010, he was a free agent.

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