SF Examiner: S.F. Giants refocused after disappointing 2011

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

They’re just a baseball team this year, the Giants, not the champions, not the club with the attention, baggage and impossibility of doing what nobody had done for more than a decade — repeat.

“I don’t think any of us knew what was coming,” Tim Lincecum said. He meant about the season of 2011, disappointing mainly because understandably it couldn’t match the season of 2010, the championship season.

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SF Examiner: Snakebitten from the start, San Francisco Giants had few high points

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

What happened to the Giants? The better question is, what didn’t happen to the Giants?

From Opening Day, when they were beaten by the Los Angeles Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw — and Buster Posey was still healthy — there was a sense this year might be as frustrating as last year was elating.



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SF Examiner: Giants enter season with great expectations

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

Another season, but for the Giants, not another season. A season in which they are no longer misfits but winners. A season in which they are no longer unappreciated, but admired. A season to follow the season of them all.

Opening Day has arrived, a first game on the last day of March against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Dodgers, who for decades drew envy and enmity from fans of the Giants. Until 2010.

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SF Examiner: San Francisco Giants' Tim Lincecum has what it takes to be 'cool'

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

It wasn’t an escape. Not according to Tim Lincecum, although some might view it exactly as that. He simply headed north, back to the state of Washington and away from the state of hysteria in which, metaphorically, he had found himself.

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RealClearSports: Lincecum Never Runs From Media

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- For the modern athlete there is always another notebook or microphone to confront, always another question to answer.

"Yes, I understand," said Tim Lincecum with a touch of sarcasm. "They have asked about every grain of rice, every grain of salt.''

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