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KCBS Sports Fans: July 2013
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Monday, July 29, 2013. Get Used To It. Giants fans, it's pretty bad right now. That sweep at the hands of the Cubs- all one-run losses, all marked by painful moments of failure- is the low point of 2013. For now. So pardon me for rubbing salt in those open wounds. But have you been keeping an eye on the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig? Your browser does not support iframes. Because I don't remember ever. It's the part of Puig's game that gets opposing fans red in the face and causes o...
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KCBS Sports Fans: November 2013
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Monday, November 25, 2013. Earth to NFL: Time To Get Serious. Let's not kid ourselves here: football is dangerous, and the NFL brand is very. But if the NFL really and truly wanted to make it less dangerous, it would get more serious about the rules surrounding headhunting. Sure, the "targeting" rule gets enforced and 15-yard penalties and fines get handed out. But all too often, the headhunter gets rewarded even though he's penalized. How's that? The NCAA is taking some he...
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KCBS Sports Fans: May 2014
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The phrase "peak oil" was in vogue a few years back. Geologist M. King Hubbert theorized the world was about to hit the peak of its petroleum-extraction capabilities and it would all be downhill after that. And now, eight former players, including Cal and 49ers alum Jeremy Newberry, are suing the league, alleging it operated as little more than a drug pusher. Newberry's description of life in the NFL, as told to KPIX 5's Dennis O'Donnell:. The NFL is ...
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KCBS Sports Fans: How To Fix Replay
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Monday, April 7, 2014. How To Fix Replay. A week into the Major League Baseball season, it's already clear that the new replay rules need some work. From the bizarre wait in Oakland while Coco Crisp's walkoff homer was confirmed, to the travesty in Phoenix where an obviously blown call at the plate couldn't be challenged because Bruce Bochy had already lost an appeal, to the uneven application of replay on the new "blocking the plate" rule.I could go on. We've learned that ...
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KCBS Sports Fans: The Venture Capitalist In The Corner Office
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Wednesday, May 7, 2014. The Venture Capitalist In The Corner Office. The Warriors' decision to fire Mark Jackson after three successive seasons of improvement in the win-loss category will be debated ad nauseam. Right move? Of course, time will tell: if the Warriors wind up in the Western Conference finals next year, management will look like geniuses. Here's what I learned: VC's think a lot of themselves. If you bought the PR, you'd think all the wealth of our modern b...
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KCBS Sports Fans: April 2014
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Donald Sterling's Uncomfortable Truth. In all the fury about Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's ugly comments, and in all the backslapping about the NBA's unprecedented sanctions, very little has been said about the uncomfortable truth of the matter: Donald Sterling is hardly the only American whose vision isn't colorblind. These things, do you think they don't believe. Most of what Gallagher's students hear isn't coming from 80-year-old...
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KCBS Sports Fans: August 2013
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Dempster Achieves The Impossible. I didn't see this coming: I'm sitting down to write a piece defending Alex Rodriguez. While the Lords of Baseball (and certainly the New York Yankees) wish A-Rod would just go away, the boneheads of Boston have managed to render him at least a mildly sympathetic figure. Rodriguez wasn't hurt and he gained his retribution later in the game with an emphatic home run in a Yankees comeback win. I'm not here to scol...
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KCBS Sports Fans: June 2013
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Friday, June 14, 2013. Open letter to Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig: This isn't that hard to do. I'm talking about baseball's absurd approach to the use of video replay. As I've written before, I'm not in the replay camp. I'm just fine with umps blowing calls (after all, the players. So, since the sport seems so intent on expanding the use of video replay, is it too much to ask that they get it right? The A's complained, and that's when Selig's Folly kicked in. The or...
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KCBS Sports Fans: June 2014
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Friday, June 27, 2014. Are We Going To Be Americans About This? America is going gaga over soccer. All of a sudden, we're painting our faces and destroying workplace productivity so we can follow the men's national team at the World Cup. So now that the USMNT (that's insider-lingo, apparently required of anyone who REALLY knows what's up) has reached the Round of 16 by losing to Germany, it's time to start acting like Americans. As the "table". Here in this country, a "...
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KCBS Sports Fans: February 2014
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The View From the Cheap Seats. Monday, February 24, 2014. Nothing To See Here, Move Along. One athlete came off the bench to nearly foul out while scoring zero points in 10 minutes of playing time in an NBA game. The other wasn't even playing a game; he'd shown up for the increasingly-weird spectacle known as the NFL Scouting Combine. Are their stories newsworthy? Of course. Has either man been held back by his sexual orientation? Which leads me to my point: it'll be nice when whoever the next. Gay NFL p...
