San Francisco Police spokesman Sergeant Neville Gittens said there is no more information to be released regarding an unidentified man discovered dead at around 2:30 this morning on the 800 block of Stanyan Street.
More information may be forthcoming later this morning and the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office told SF Weekly they hope to have the body identified -- and the family notified -- by 4 p.m.watch: We Got Barry.' Now the overriding message is, 'Come watch:
Barry's gone.'"
Needless to say, it hasn't worked out that way -- despite the team's effort to, in effect, ride Barry as far as he would take them and then, when he grew to be a liability, derive what energy it could by burning his corpse. Not that no one is watching the games -- the team is on pace to draw nearly 2.8 million fans this year and that's not chump change. But they ain' t there to watch plucky kids like Kevin Frandsen or Eugenio Velez, as likable as those two may be. Fans have been heading to the park to watch transcendent pitching from Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum -- and to take in at-bats from the man-child they call "Little Panda," Pablo Sandoval.
Sandoval, a roly-poly 5-foot-11, 246 pound (he says) infielder embodies almost everything we love about baseball -- both tangibly and intangibly. You can review all of his many skills and crunch all the numbers, but, when it comes down to it, there are some players who are exciting and some who aren't. Some players make you stop what you're doing and watch the game. Some players make you call anyone within earshot -- even Europeans who don't know a damn thing about baseball and are rather pleased with that setup -- to come watch this man hit. There are some players that truly allow fans to vicariously feel joy. Sandoval is just such a man -- and that's what the Giants need.
