SF Examiner: Bad breaks are piling up for the San Francisco Giants

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

June has arrived with promise and reminders. June rhymes with moon, spoon, loon and, as those who remember the Giants’ bad old days, swoon. A tradition presumably abandoned.

After a May in which San Francisco lost its star catcher and six games during the final eight days, the new month couldn’t be as troublesome as the past when a quick start became a sudden decline.

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SF Examiner: San Francisco Giants' Cody Ross endeared himself to fans, earned a starting spot

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

He’s not quite a national monument. That label belongs to the other entity from Carlsbad, N.M.: the caverns. “It’s a pretty neat experience,” Cody Ross said of visiting his hometown attraction. “Especially as you get older.

“As a kid, I didn’t appreciate it as much.”

This from a ballplayer who in his career was not appreciated at all — until early last autumn.

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SF Examiner: Giants have no choice but to shake things up

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

The possibility became a reality. The Phillies, as suspected, have every bit what the Giants have in pitching. And as it became painfully apparent, much more than the Giants have in hitting.

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SF Examiner: With or without NLCS victory, Giants are winners

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — And where is Todd Wellemeyer anyway?

No knocks, please. He did his part. And then along came Madison Bumgarner. Isn’t that the way for winning teams — changes that over the course of a long season turn out to be the proper ones?

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