Giants’ Luis Arraez on All-Star experience: ‘Wow, I’m still a kid, especially playing this game’ - something a really cool experience in Philadelphia brought out for many. Plus: pitching plans for Logan Webb after not appearing tonight: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

Truth be told, some days I just don't hate my commute, I can't. #zalophus

The word for my reaction to MLB's proposal to punish not just players but even their agents over decisions to not participate in the ASG or the Olympics? Gobsmacked. A @susanslusser.bsky.social exclusive: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Living writers I've read five or more books by? Cutting it down to which five can be a matter of what you want to share. So: Bill James, Nancy Kress, China Mieville, Philipp Blom, Adam Zamoyski. Glum I can no longer list Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Hilary Mantel, among many others.

Remember, the US men's and women's futbol teams split 80% kf the prize money equally after their unions voted on it. The women have won 4x and the men sorta were always mid, but the men's prizes are like 10x more $$$.

They made the Iran team go straight to the airport or bus out of the country after every game, this isn't even the least corrupt thing FIFA done this tournament. It's bad but if this is the first time you're talking about FIFA corruption with this tourney I'm side eyeing you.

This list has several books on FIFA’s corruption, if anyone wants to read more: www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/a-world-cu...

I went through and provided context to an MLB dot com article on the recent CBA proposal that seemed to leave a lot of it out. I've made that article completely free to read for anyone who wants to:

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

"No other country does birthright citizenship," Trump told reporters and the public yesterday. Not a single reporter told him he was wrong – that 32 other countries have it – even though all of the reporters knew that, or they should be fired for not knowing it.

Germany "are," really? Tell me you cut the copy desk too close to the bone in one verb, please.

Ausgeschrecklich is a word, right? I expect it's a mood in one country that rhymes with "Mermany."

Community members and allies gathered at Dolores Park on Friday for a trans rights demonstration ahead of San Francisco’s Pride weekend celebrations. 📽️: Estefany Gonzalez/For the S.F. Chronicle

After a day spent talking about live balls, the league has 12 homers and less than six runs a game today. Remember that MLB, 30 teams, and a few dozen broadcast partners and media companies are begging you to bet on this stuff.

The contracts that set the market pretty much all go to your Sotos, Harpers, Machados, et al. MLB used extensions to keep Trout and a number of others out of FA at 26; this rule change would eliminate the need to even do that. Tl;dr It’s not so much a draft proposal as market killer.

Great work by Ann Killion here, with some strong quotes from Mike Krukow as well.

From @annkillion.bsky.social: "On Pride Night, when a rainbow was front and center, the Giants’ true colors came through." www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki...

Y'know, the main other thing I remember about the Giants of the late '70s is that they lost a lot more than they won. You know what they say about history rhyming.

And we're underway here at Levi's... the Qataris are the Maroons, I suppose that should command some sympathy from this @uchicagomag.bsky.social alum, but no cheering in the press box.

Fun reminder that Fox likely only has this World Cup because FIFA placated them with essentially a freebie after Fox was NOT happy about the Qatar World Cup being moved to winter, conflicting with the NFL

Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:

Heat to affect fans, players at first World Cup match at Levi's Stadium www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

CA can and should throw money at it... ....but say it again: the only thing "eroding trust and spawning conspiracy theories" is Trump & the GOP, and there's nothing election administration can do about that.

As well as I know the nyt, I’m still gobsmacked nearly every day by the level of arrogance exercised by its leaders. The Jilanis and Ryans will fade, but Sulzberger will replace them w others. It’s also been astonishing to see the nyt push its reactionary anti-factual campaign ever further right

Victor Wembanyama, meet Bernie Kosar. You guys are probably going to be put together in a few things.

Gotta love a story off a game that meets the moment. From @shaynarubin.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

So, I see a Shotaro Morii story & have to add that any discussion of "three-way" players is silly when you remember Shohei Ohtani has played the field, in Japan & MLB. And then there's Brooks Kieschnick, Clint Hartung, Babe Ruth, etc. Parsing for novelty does not in fact make something new or true.

I documented this episode, along with how the broader MAGA-Weiss-Sulzberger propaganda pipeline poisoned the public's understanding of the medical facts behind GAC. They preyed on the public's understandable lack of knowledge to sow prejudice. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

From @ShaynaRubin Is Giants’ pitching staff plagued by predictability? Here’s what the numbers show www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

The open hostility to gay rights in today’s U.S. creates an anxious environment for fans traveling to attend World Cup matches. Pride Houses, such as the one in San Francisco, offer a safe haven.

Have talked to Nick Bosa about his mental health. The tools he's developed helped in his latest post-injury journey. “Compared to 2020, I wasn’t as depressed." www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers... #49ers

Buster Posey made one difficult Giants move today. When might he make another? The Chronicle caught up with the team's top baseball exec before today's game to ask about some of the most pressing issues: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

Why Caitlin Clark enlisted Steph Curry’s longtime trainer: ‘Really challenging my mind’ www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

The existence of the NFL, which has a house union, a 17-game schedule, no local media revenue, and sells 1/4 of the tickets MLB does, makes these conversations hard. MLB and the NFL simply are not comparable as businesses. They do entirely different things with different elements.

#49ers' 2026 schedule with game-by-game breakdown (Kyle's complaints evidently reached the NFL offices) www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers...

Brandon Crawford is a Bay Area icon. Now he’s joining its greatest athletes in Hall of Fame - why he's the ideal member of the local sports Hall, with thoughts from Crawford, Ron Wotus, Crawford's HS football coach and one of his pals: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

Jason Collins was an inspiration. His work in the world we live in went far beyond what we all saw him achieve on the floor. And because he didn't stick to sports, he didn't just make sports better, he bettered the lives of all who had the good fortune to know him. #RIP

Took six balls for Vesia to walk Devers, but sure, ABS and human umps are a great combo.

A’s longest single-season on-base streaks since 2000: 2006 Nick Swisher: 36 games 2026 Nick Kurtz: 32 *active 2007 Mark Ellis: 32 2003 Erubiel Durazo: 31 2001 Eric Chavez: 31 2018 Matt Chapman: 30

Giants squander Adrian Houser’s best outing as offense lags in loss to Padres; Houser says he was ok to keep going after 74 pitches; Chapman on that error and on his slump; Vitello thought France's triple was catchable and much more: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

Congratulations to Brian Kenny, Eugene Murdock, Rob Ruck, and Allan Simpson, 2026 recipients of the SABR Henry Chadwick Award honoring contributions to baseball research: sabr.org/latest/sabr-...

Carver Willis was an easy projection for the #49ers. Well, sort of. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers...

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

sick the new york times is just citing statistics from the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine now

Why weren’t the voice of trans families represented in her podcast about trans kids? Well for one thing, she is profoundly untrustworthy so no one is willing to talk to her.

Giants GM Zack Minasian: Phillies’ sweep ‘tough pill to swallow’ but praises Vitello, coaches, discusses some of the team's issues with the @sfchronicle: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

For the rest of my life I won't forget this, the ninth consecutive sinker in the at-bat

Giants’ game Wednesday in Philadelphia postponed; Thursday now a doubleheader; the specifics, such as we know them, here, but there's one question that this raises down the line: www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

Did #49ers reach to draft De’Zhaun Stribling? Here’s one NFL GM’s blunt assessment www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers...

Tonight’s game was moved up half an hour by inclement weather and will start at 3:10 Pacific.