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Murph: Can 49ers have the season they want to have?
Of all people, I didn’t expect our Murph & Mac platinum member “Friend of the Program” (Gentleman) Jim Nantz to knock me for a loop about the 2020 49ers.
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Murph: A dispatch from Oracle Park, where we miss our fellow Giants fans
No, the Jock Blog does not usually use datelines. But this one is different. This one is written from the ballpark.
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Murph: The ethical quandary of Pac-12, Big Ten returning to football
Loving college football on Saturdays isn’t a totally clean ethical experience in 2020.
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Murph: A simple love letter to the return of 49ers football
For a region going thru an apocalyptic nightmare of air quality, fire destruction and a crippling pandemic, we sure do it have good on the sports scene.
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Murph: The San Francisco Giants’ hitting improvements are not slight, they’re drastic
The discovery of hitting the baseball for the San Francisco Giants.
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Murph: The Dodgers honored their history on Wednesday night
Here’s a sentence you may never see again in the Jock Blog…
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Murph: The Fernando Tatis Jr. mess is more nuanced than most are saying
Move over, Bobby Thomson. It’s really Fernando Tatis, Jr. who hit The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.
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Murph: The 49ers are the safest bet in our lives right now
For five months now, we sports fans have dealt with life in the pandemic. What we’re dealing with includes cardboard cutouts, Gabe Kapler in a mask, and now an autumn without the Cal marching band in Strawberry Canyon. That’s pretty weird stuff.
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Murphy: If loving baseball in the COVID-19 era is wrong, I don’t want to be right
He’s not here for your logic or well-reasoned explanations.
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Murph: The Curious Case of Gabe Kapler
And all of us getting to know Kapler, a man hired nearly ten months ago, a man yet to manage a game for the beloved Gigantes, and a dude already morphing through different iterations as a fan base watches.
