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Todd Wellemeyer’s Latest Stumble Increases Volume of Cries for Madison Bumgarner
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in MLB
If you haven't heard them before, you should definitely start to hear them now.
Todd Wellemeyer’s latest debacle on the mound has many San Francisco Giants fans pining (even louder) for the promotion of top pitching prospect Madison Bumgarner. After a spring training stint that was about as absurd as the new immigration law in Arizona, Bumgarner is once again turning heads with the Fresno Grizzlies, and it might ...
Silver Medal Line: Joe Pavelski and Co. Carry the Weight for the San Jose Sharks
Posted: 25th April 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
Bay Area hockey fans no longer have to wonder what their team is going to do once the beloved-Patrick Marleau/Joe Thornton Era comes to an end.
They no longer have to speculate on what will happen if these “superstars” don’t live up to their often overhyped hockey lore.
The future is now for the San Jose Sharks.
In the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the members of the San Jose Sharks’ ...
San Francisco Giants Round-Up: Lincecum Dominates, Renteria Produces
Posted: 12th April 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in MLB
The first week of baseball has come and gone and the San Francisco Giants find themselves tied for the best record in baseball.
The Orange and Black Faithful are certainly happy with this rapid start, witnessing a sweep in their first road series and emerging with a win in their first series at AT&T Park.
The outstanding start is hard to judge considering the volatile nature of MLB’s first week of play, ...
Prospect Peek: Ranking the San Francisco Giants’ Top Five Farm Hands
Posted: 9th April 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in MLB
It is never too early in a season to open up the cupboards and take a gander at just how much talent is waiting in the wings.
For the casual fan, the vast rosters of the minor leagues can be a little overwhelming. Keeping track of the up-and-coming stars that were acquired in past drafts is often difficult to follow all the way from draft-day selection to final call-up.
However, these are ...
2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Five Sharks That Need To Emerge As Wild Cards
Posted: 8th April 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
Whether it is a jovial joker or a one-eyed Jack, a wild card has a way of mixing things up in advantageous ways. It can turn the mediocre into amazing and the amazing into the absolutely spectacular.
It is this exciting variable that the San Jose Sharks will need to see if they hope to expel the the lingering ghosts of playoffs past.
Production from ...
Sharks Extend Skid: Five Reasons the Teal Faithful Should Remain Calm
Posted: 23rd March 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
In times of uncertainty, it is not uncommon for people to panic and lose focus of the situation at hand.
The San Jose Sharks’ recent sky dive down the Western Conference standings has many worried that their eerily predictable downfall is starting a little early this season.
Since the return from the Olympic break, Todd McLellan’s squad has looked out of sync, worn-out, and lacked that certain “We are the better ...
San Jose Sharks: Top Five Offseason Free Agents that Could Replace Evgeni Nabokov
Posted: 11th March 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
It is a weird thought…someone other than Evgeni Nabokov regularly in between the pipes for the San Jose Sharks.
Nabokov’s career in the NHL has spanned 11 seasons and three different decades, with all of them in teal. He is the leader in almost every All Time Sharks goaltending stat imaginable and thinking about a season without the flexible Russian seems quite eerie.
Nabokov has been the rock ...
Beat LA!: Upstart Kings Re-Ignite Dormant Rivalry with the Sharks
Posted: 5th January 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
“Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!”
Anyone that has attended a Bay Area sporting event where the away team is a despised squad from Southern California has heard and hopefully partaken in this cheer.
There is no love lost between Southern and Northern California and fans from each region have no problems giving a willing participant an earful on why their brand of California is so much better than the other.
The ...
Too Many Men: The Abundance of Olympic-Caliber Stars May Harm the Sharks
Posted: 8th December 2009 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
With the Winter Olympics less than 70 days away, it is hard not to take a quick glance over your NHL team's roster to see who may represent their country in these always exciting world games.
While it will be an undoubtedly enormous honor for these talented stars to make the trip to Vancouver, the amount of players on your team's roster slated to play this mini-season within a season could ...
San Jose Sharks Continue to Struggle with Allowing Shorthanded Goals
Posted: 4th December 2009 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in NHL
The San Jose Sharks' miscues while up a man this season are becoming quite the pesky problem. áá
For the second time in five games, the dreaded Short Handed Goal Against (SHGA) reared itÆs evil head and forced an abrupt end to a promising Sharks winning streak.á á
Notching a tally in the SHGA column is one of the gravest sins you can commit in the game of hockey.á
When this unfortunate turn ...