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BREAKING: BARRY BONDS RECEIVES A “CONTRACT LIKE NO OTHER” FROM THE GIANTS — $5 MILLION NOT TO HIT ANOTHER BASEBALL, BUT TO KEEP A PIECE OF THEIR HISTORY IN SAN FRANCISCO
Barry Bonds once signed contracts to do something almost nobody in baseball history did better: step into the batter’s box and make an entire stadium stop to watch. But in this fictional 2026 scenario, the San Francisco Giants put an entirely different agreement in front of Bonds: $1 million per year for five years to serve in a special advisory role, with....
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BREAKING: TONY VITELLO EXPLODES, THEN THE GIANTS IMPLODE — A SIX RUN NINTH INNING LEAD VANISHES IN THE WORST LATE GAME COLLAPSE IN FRANCHISE HISTORY
Some losses make fans angry. Some leave them speechless. Then there was Wednesday afternoon at Oracle Park, when the San Francisco Giants turned what appeared to be one of their most satisfying afternoons of a difficult season into a piece of franchise history nobody wanted. Tony Vitello was ejected in the first inning.....
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BREAKING: GIANTS’ KALSHI DEAL IGNITES A FAN BACKLASH — WHEN A LOST SEASON MEETS ANOTHER MONEY MOVE, SAN FRANCISCO’S TRUST PROBLEM GETS HARDER TO IGNORE
The San Francisco Giants are generating headlines again in 2026, but this one has little to do with a walk off hit, a blockbuster acquisition or a late season surge. It is about business. The Giants have officially partnered with Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market platform, in an agreement that will bring....
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BREAKING: TWO BASEBALLS, TWO DREAMS FINALLY MADE REAL — CARSON SEYMOUR’S FIRST MLB SAVE AND NATE FURMAN’S FIRST HIT GIVE A BATTERED GIANTS TEAM SOMETHING WORTH CELEBRATING
One baseball for Nate Furman. Another for Carson Seymour. Two players performing completely different jobs, connected by one feeling very few people who ever play baseball get to experience: accomplishing something for the first time in the Major Leagues. Furman, whose contract was selected by San Francisco on....
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BREAKING: GIANTS’ ROSTER SHAKEN UP OVERNIGHT — FIVE OF 26 SPOTS CHANGE AS THREE PLAYERS HIT THE IL AND BRYCE ELDRIDGE STEPS AWAY
In one transaction wave, nearly one fifth of the Giants’ active roster changed. But behind that cold 19 percent figure were five very different stories. W***y Adames suffered a left elbow sprain just as his second half was beginning to show signs of improvement. Victor Bericoto sustained a right knee bone bruise after an already....
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BREAKING: GIANTS HIT BY ANOTHER FRIGHTENING PITCHING SCARE — ADRIAN HOUSER WALKS OFF AFTER JUST 26 PITCHES, ONE NIGHT AFTER SAN FRANCISCO LOST ANOTHER STARTER
Two nights. Two starting pitchers. Two scenes at Oracle Park that Giants fans would rather never see again. Adrian Houser took the mound Tuesday with an opportunity to reestablish himself in San Francisco’s rotation after thriving in a long relief role. Twenty six pitches later, he was flexing and shaking his right arm....
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SAD NEWS: ORACLE PARK STOOD FOR MIKE KRUKOW — THE VOICE WOVEN INTO GIANTS BASEBALL IS STEPPING AWAY, BUT THIS MAY NOT BE THE FINAL GOODBYE
Some people become part of baseball memory without needing to stand on the mound or step into the batter’s box, and for generations of San Francisco Giants fans, Mike Krukow became exactly that kind of presence. When Oracle Park rose to give him a standing ovation, it felt like something larger than recognition for a broadcaster approaching the end of an extraordinary chapter. It was thousands of people...
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CONGRATULATIONS: NATE FURMAN WILL NEVER FORGET THIS ONE — ONE SWING, HIS FIRST BIG LEAGUE HIT, AND A DREAM YEARS IN THE MAKING FINALLY BECOMES REAL
Baseball keeps thousands of numbers, but there is one number a player never forgets: one. A first Major League hit does not have to be a grand slam, travel 450 feet or decide a postseason game to become one of the defining moments of a player's life. For Nate Furman, the moment the baseball left his bat and became....
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BREAKING: FROM DIVISION III AND INDY BALL TO FENWAY PARK — TURNER HILL’S IMPOSSIBLE ROAD TO THE GIANTS JUST BECAME ONE OF BASEBALL’S BEST STORIES OF 2026
Some players enter Major League Baseball through the front door. Turner Hill seemingly had to find every side entrance along the way. From Marietta, Ohio, to Malone University, back home to Division III Marietta College, then through the disappointment of going undrafted, his path never resembled the traditional....
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SAD NEWS: Mike Krukow Finally Opens Up About His Hardest Conversation With Duane Kuiper — 36 Seasons Are Nearing an End, but “Kruk & Kuip” Was Never Just a Broadcast Booth
For more than three decades, Giants fans did not simply turn on the television to hear Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper describe a baseball game. They invited “Kruk & Kuip” into their homes. Wins, disappointing seasons, Barry Bonds, pennant races, San Francisco’s modern championship era and thousands of otherwise....
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