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San Francisco 49ers podcast with David Zizmor: Game one of the preseason kicks off Thursday with Cowboys; Dallas’ Prescott will be asked about his anthem remarks

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On the 49ers podcast with David Zizmor:

Game one of the preseason kicks off this Thursday for the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers. The Cowboys’ quarterback Dak Prescott has been a central focus this last week on NFL talk shows. Prescott spoke out against players taking a knee during the national anthem and has got a lot of national flak for his comments, saying “it takes away from the joy and the love that football brings to a lot of people.”

Will the statements of Prescott bring divisiveness to the Cowboys’ dressing room? Will there be resentment for what Prescott said? Will there be even more players taking a knee on the Cowboys? Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he has warned his players against taking a knee and Prescott could have fueled the players to take a knee even more. Ironically, if some of the Cowboys players take a knee on Thursday night, it will be in the stadium where it all got started–Levi’s Stadium, where former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick founded the movement.

David Zizmor who does the 49ers podcasts each Tuesday and Joe is the 49ers beat writer at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

 

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast: A’s proving to be buyers, getting Kelly and Fiers; Halos’ Trout out day-to-day with wrist injury; Willie Mac takes the plunge at 80

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On That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary:

#1 The Oakland A’s are loading up proving that their buyers and they’re trying to seal the deal for the post season as they acquired pitchers from the Washington Nationals, Sean Kelly, and from the Detroit Tigers, Mike Fiers, this past week.

#2 The Los Angeles Angels’ outfielder Mike Trout is suffering from a right wrist contusion after an awkward slide last Wednesday to avoid a tag from the Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Matt Duffy. Trout will be day-to-day, according to Angels’ manager Mike Scioscia.

#3 Former San Francisco Giant first baseman and Hall of Fame legend Willie McCovey got married for the second time–his first marriage in the 1960s–with his longtime girlfriend Estela last week. McCovey had a great career and he was the other fence buster with his former teammate Willie Mays during the great ’60s.

#4 The Chicago Cubs’ Javier Baez hit a curve ball in the sixth inning in Monday night’s game against the Kansas City Royals for his 25th home run of the season. Baez now has three home runs in his last four games.

#5 The Houston Astros are on pace to win 100 games as they came back in the top of the ninth down 1-0 and got a three-run home run from Marwin Gonzalez for the 3-1 win at AT&T Park over the San Francisco Giants. There are three teams in MLB on the 100-win pace: the Boston Red Sox (113 wins), the New York Yankees (100 wins), and the Astros (101 wins).

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Oakland A’s Spanish play-by-play announcer, the vice president of the MLB Hispanic Heritage Museum Hall of Fame, and does News and Commentary each Tuesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips: Coming off a split with the Diamondbacks, the chase is on for first place as Giants open series with Astros at AT&T tonight

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photo by mercurynews.com: Giants third baseman Evan Longoria (10) gets a pat on the helmet from his teammates on Sunday at Chase Field after hitting the go ahead home run in the eventual win for San Francisco 3-2 over the Arizona Diamondbacks

On the San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris:

The Giants come back tonight at AT&T Park after winning five out seven games. In Arizona, they got a split against the Arizona Diamondbacks, so keeping pace to climb in the standings continues in their chase to catch the two first place teams the D-backs and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Big fly helps the Giants get the win in Arizona on Sunday as Giants’ third baseman Evan Longoria hit an eighth inning home run to break a 2-2 deadlock for the 3-2 win. The Giants’ first baseman Buster Posey returned after passing concussion tests and played at first on Sunday. Posey will be assuming his catching duties during this current homestand.

The Giants open against a tough customer, the Houston Astros, on Monday night. The Astros can hear the Oakland A’s footsteps as the A’s are now just four games behind the Astros in the AL West standings. So the Astros will be battling to keep pace as well as the Giants, who are in the hunt for first place.

Morris Phillips does the San Francisco Giants podcasts each Monday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco Giants podcast with Daniel Dullum: Giants’ injuries mounting, key players missing; Angels’ manager Scioscia to retire after 19 years; A’s win streak hits at 5 games

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On the MLB The Show podcast with Daniel:

1 Giants try to salvage final game of series vs. Diamondbacks. Buster Posey passes concussion test and was back in the Giants’ lineup on Sunday. Giants have mounting injuries to key players.

2 Angels’ manager Mike Scioscia will review stepping down after 19 years at the helm.

3 A’s rookie Ramon Laureano is the hero in Friday’s 13-inning win over Detroit. Swingin’ A’s keep rolling.

4 Astros’ All-Star Alex Bregman rips President Trump over LeBron James’ tweet.

5 Mets offers its fans free therapy to cope with team’s woes.

Daniel Dullum does it all–reporter covering Giants baseball in Arizona and does the MLB podcast each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

MLB The Show podcast with Matt Harrington: How bad is Posey’s concussion?; Have the Mariners derailed?; Astros edge Dodgers Friday in World Series reunion

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On the MLB The Show podcast with Matt:

#1 Talk about taking one for the team on Friday night! San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey took one for the team as the Arizona Diamondbacks Paul Goldschmidt hit a foul tip right into Posey’s mask. It rung Posey’s head so much that he had to be helped to the dugout by the trainer. Posey might be in his closing days as a catcher.

#2 The Seattle Mariners have completely derailed! They lost their fourth straight game and dropped the first two games of this four game series with the Toronto Blue Jays 7-2. The M’s are now 1 1/2 games back of the A’s for the AL Wild Card race.

#3 The Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers had a 2017 World Series reunion with the Astros taking the first game of the series 2-1 on Friday night. The Astros’ starter Justin Verlander struck out 14 hitters to keep the Dodgers under control.

#4 The Chicago Cubs continued their winning ways with a one-run win over the San Diego Padres 5-4. The Cubs are holding onto first place in the NL Central with a one-game lead over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs’ Javier Baez hit his 23rd home run of the season, tying Baez’ all time best for homers.

#5 The Oakland A’s Ramon Laureano got a walkoff base hit that won it for the A’s in 13 innings as the A’s shutout the Detroit Tigers 1-0. The A’s continued to pour it on being the hottest team in baseball. The A’s are only five games back in the AL West of the Atlanta Braves.

Matt Harrington does the MLB The Show each Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco Giants podcast with Michael Duca: MadBum works D-Backs’ lineup to correct loaded situation

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On the San Francisco Giants podcast with Miguel:

Madison Bumgarner had himself a night pitching against the Arizona Diamondbacks for the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night. Bumgarner loaded the bases twice once in the first inning and in the second inning. Bumgarner worked his way out of it each time and he said during the postgame presser that he had to work twice as hard to work his way out of each of those jams.

Giants manager Bruce Bochy said that Bumgarner did a great job keeping the Diamondbacks at bay with just one run in the ball game and Bumgarner showed his focus, zeroed in, and kept the Diamondbacks from doing any further damage.

The Giants now have lost two key players. Third baseman Pablo Sandoval to a hamstring injury. Sandoval will be lost for the entire 2018 season.

“It’s just that he played there, but the job he did. The guy did everything. This is a tough one to overcome.” said Bochy.

The Giants’ Johnny Cueto, who is undergoing Tommy John surgery this week, is also a loss for the 2018 season.

The Giants, who won their fifth straight game, will go for number six tonight at Chase Field in the second of this four game series . The Giants are just five games out of first place and will start Chris Stratton (8-6). For the Diamondbacks, Patrick Corbin (7-4).

Join Michael each Friday for the Giants podcasts and Morris Phillips Mondays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco Giants podcast with Marko Ukalovic: Rodriguez pitching like the real deal; very well could be in the running for NL Rookie of the Year

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photo from mercurynews.com: San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Dereck Rodriguez delivers a pitch to San Diego Padres’ Austin Hedges during the first inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Tuesday, July 31, 2018

On the San Francisco Giants podcast with Marko:

#1 San Francisco Giants starter Derek Rodriguez did it again with a 3-2 win over the San Diego Padres Tuesday night at Petco Park. Rodriguez went seven innings, three hits, one earned run, three walks, and seven strikeouts.

#2 Marko takes a look at Rodriguez’ command and mix of pitches.

#3 Also, will Rodriguez have a shot at being the NL Rookie of the Year currently pitching with a 2.59 ERA?

#4 The Giants have had success in extra innings. Marko talks about the walk-offs, the comebacks, the hits, and the homers that helped the Giants as of late.

#5 It’s off to Arizona and Madison Bumgarner (3-4) Thursday night he’ll face Zack Greinke (12-5) Marko sets up the series on the podcast for us.

Marko Ukalovic does the Giants podcasts each Wednesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco 49ers podcast with David Zizmor: Giants to sell 125 lithos of Dwight Clark and Willie Mays holding their famous catch photos

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On the SF 49ers podcast with David:

The San Francisco Giants have announced that they will sell a limited amount of autographed lithographs of the late 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark and former San Francisco Giant legend Willie Mays, who is holding up his photo of making his catch in the 1954 World Series. The lithos are $487 each and there are only 125 available.

The 49ers have three tight ends in camp: George Kittle, Garrett Celek, and Cole Hikutuni. With a limited amount of tight ends in camp, can the 49ers open the season with only three tight ends?

David Zizmor does the 49ers podcasts each Tuesday at http://www.sportsadioservice.com

San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips: Will Giants deal before deadline? McCutchen, Panik, or Bumgarner are names dropped

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mercurynews.com photo: Madison Bumgarner #40 of the San Francisco Giants pitches against the Milwaukee Brewers in the top of the first inning at AT&T Park on July 27, 2018 in San Francisco, California

On Giants podcast with Morris Phillips:

#1 Will the Giants make any deals? Names that have come up: Andrew McCutchen, Joe Panik and Madison Bumgarner. Will the Giants seek a deal to get some leverage in their chase for a shot at the postseason?

#2 Giants catcher Buster Posey says the Giants are a streaky team. Sometimes, they’ll win eight of 10 and then they’ll win seven of nine. They lost two out of three to the Brewers and they opened up a three-game series in San Diego Monday night.

#3 With a right hamstring injury, Giants pull third baseman Pablo Sandoval, who will be sitting out on the DL just as Evan Longoria comes back to assume his position at third.

#4 Chase d’Arnaud has taken over first base for San Francisco in place of injured Brandon Belt. This is Belt’s third time on the DL this season.

#5 Giants are looking to get some hitting in the San Diego series–something they lacked in the series in Colorado, where they got swept.

Morris does the Giants podcasts each Monday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips and Michael Duca: Giants get by Brewers Sunday, but team injuries plague club

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photo from mercurynews.com: Johnny Cueto #47 of the San Francisco Giants pitches against the Milwaukee Brewers in the top of the first inning at AT&T Park on July 28, 2018 in San Francisco, California.

On the SF Giants podcast with Michael and Morris:

San Francisco Giants pitcher Ty Blach got brought up then he was sent down, Giants first baseman Brandon Belt got hurt with bruised knee, Evan Longoria came back to play at third base, pitcher Johnny Cueto came back, but says everytime he throws he’s in a lot of pain and yet it’s still kind of business as usual hovering around .500 relentless mediocrity.

Any good baseball team needs to have someone to have a career year–somebody whose at the forefront of what’s making that baseball team win. For a stretch here, we thought that Belt was that guy, maybe Brandon Crawford was that guy. We haven’t seen any consistency in either one of their seasons to carry it.

You’re trying to establish a credible playoff contending baseball team and you don’t have that one guy whose driving that one thing and that’s the whole disjointed nature of the Giants in 2018. A guy gets hot and now he’s on the DL. A player can do something like a concussion and we haven’t seen outfielder Mac Williamson in since.

Morris and Michael get more into the latest discussion on the Giants listen for more at http://www.sportsradioservice.com