Fandom is, naturally, a partisan affair. No team has more heart than the Giants! Marco Scutaro is the hottest hitter in baseball! Defense, base-running, and timely hitting are the keys to victory in October! Angel Pagan should be on the cover of a romance novel!
Most of us have been following the Giants' playoff run within Orange October insulation. In a bubble of "Posey for President" ... Kruk and Kuip ... sixth-inning "Gangam Style" ... #RallyZito and Vogey VogelStrong.
But to really understand a team, you've got to learn about what the outside world thinks of it. One way is to peruse enemy blogosphere comments sections, that modern public square where intellects, idiots, optimists, and paranoiacs converge.
Here is what Tigers Nation -- or at least the readers of Bless You Boys, Motor City Bengals, and Detroit Tigers Weblog -- thinks about San Francisco's squad.
Admittedly, we didn't know anything about the Coati until we caught sight of this video released by the San Francisco Zoo, which shows, among other things, how much Snookum Bears love Halloween.
The S.F. Zoo released this video of two Coatis, Rosie and Maggie, chowing down on some of their favorite edibles: pumpkins, spices, and treats. They also like to rub themselves in perfume (to freshen up their tails!).
Anyway, the Zoo surprised us with footage of the two very active sisters enjoying another day in confinement:
Here's a drunken night one San Francisco man would probably like to forget.
Police tell us that a 30-year-old man was robbed not long after he passed out from a night of boozing heavily in San Francisco. The crime happened just as the bars closed in North Beach; at about 2 a.m., the man walked to his car parked on Grant and Broadway streets where he decided to take a nap, according to police reports.
Just as he fell into his liquored-induced slumber, a man knocked on his car window, claiming to be an undercover cop.
In the last few years, San Francisco Giants fans have been treated to every experience they could have ever hoped to have. Last night, however, was a new one. If you ever dreamed of watching a nigh-impossible comeback capped during a torrential rainstorm -- well, there you go.
If you think American publishers are clueless when it comes to the Internet, just look abroad. This week, Brazil's National Association of Newspapers blocked Google News from aggregating its members' articles. That means that almost none of the newspaper articles published in Brazil will make it to Google News.
stories have been published at all. French newspapers last week took a
similar tack, demanding that Google News pay them for linking to their articles.
Authorities have identified the 62-year-old man who was found dead in a Tenderloin apartment as William Swiatek of San Francisco.
Police were called to the 600 block of O'Farrell on Sunday morning where they found Swiatek deceased in an apparent homicide. Police could not say for sure when he was killed, but they do know he died from a head injury.
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The presidential debates always give voters so much more than insight about the candidates -- it gives them fodder, and more fodder to turn political discourse into Internet entertainment.
And after last night's final debate -- which included and some fun stuff, like horses and bayonets, and Mitt Romney's crawling perspiration -- we decided to go ahead and give you a recap with highlights from all three debates before you head to the polls on Nov. 6.
See also: Debate: Even This Heart-Shaped Crotch Couldn't Help Romney
Ross Mirkarimi is quickly settling back into his post as sheriff, registering inmates to vote, and generally trying to get everyone to forget about his nine-month political and family drama with his wife.
But Erica Sedlander, a UC Berkeley graduate student, isn't letting the sheriff off so easy; she created a Facebook page this week dedicated to expressing her disappointment in the Board of Supervisors, who gave Mirkarimi his job back despite recommendations that he be fired. Specifically, the page -- which has 62 likes and counting -- targets the four city supervisors who voted to return Mirkarimi to the sherrif's office after he was convicted for false imprisonment during a domestic dispute with his wife last New Year's Eve.
See also: S.F. Inmates Say That Bruise Ross Mirkarimi Gave His Wife Is No Misdemeanor
Per the Facebook page:
