San Francisco Sports Insider

NO. NAME POS
49 Brett Anderson SP
40 Andrew Bailey RP
10 Daric Barton 1B
13 Jerry Blevins RP
57 Cedrick Bowers RP
51 Dallas Braden SP
56 Craig Breslow RP
-- Corey Brown CF
6 Travis Buck RF
53 Trevor Cahill SP
61 Adrian Cardenas SS
25 Matt Carson RF
22 Chris Carter 1B
3 Eric Chavez 3B
16 Coco Crisp CF
32 Jack Cust DH
11 Rajai Davis CF
60 Fautino De Los Santos SP
70 Sam Demel RP
33 Joey Devine RP
52 Lenny DiNardo SP
71 Josh Donaldson C
58 Justin Duchscherer SP
14 Mark Ellis 2B
65 Pedro Figueroa SP
50 Jake Fox 3B
72 Joel Galarraga C
47 Gio Gonzalez SP
76 Grant Green SS
28 Gabe Gross RF
36 Fernando Hernandez RP
39 Brad Kilby RP
5 Kevin Kouzmanoff 3B
54 Vin Mazzaro SP
45 Marcus McBeth RP
18 Dallas McPherson 3B
44 Jon Meloan RP
62 Clayton Mortensen SP
55 Josh Outman SP
1 Eric Patterson LF
26 Cliff Pennington SS
2 Gregorio Petit 2B
35 Landon Powell C
19 Anthony Recker C
63 Henry Rodriguez SP
7 Adam Rosales 3B
66 Tyson Ross SP
15 Ben Sheets SP Read more

NO. NAME POS
78 Ehire Adrianza SS
41 Jeremy Affeldt RP
53 Denny Bautista SP
20 John Bowker LF
40 Madison Bumgarner SP
2 Emmanuel Burriss 2B
18 Matt Cain SP
46 Santiago Casilla RP
63 Craig Clark SP
64 Rafael Cova RP
79 Brandon Crawford SS
7 Mark DeRosa LF
34 Matt Downs 2B
65 Steve Edlefsen RP
81 Wendell Fairley CF
47 Darren Ford CF
9 Kevin Frandsen 2B
50 Conor Gillaspie 3B
84 Jesus Guzman 1B
66 Eric Hacker SP
43 Alex Hinshaw RP
32 Steve Holm C
17 Aubrey Huff 1B
10 Travis Ishikawa 1B
60 Waldis Joaquin RP
85 Steven Johnson SP
82 Roger Kieschnick LF
-- Byung-Hyun Kim RP
14 Fred Lewis LF
55 Tim Lincecum SP
49 Joe Martinez SP
56 Osiris Matos SP
52 Brandon Medders RP
1 Bengie Molina C
76 Johnny Monell C
59 Guillermo Mota RP
83 Thomas Neal LF
80 Nick Noonan SS
62 Francisco Peguero LF
51 Tony Pena RP
35 Brett Pill 1B
28 Buster Posey C
68 Kevin Pucetas SP
16 Edgar Renteria SS
29 Ryan Rohlinger 3B
70 Felix Romero RP
54 Sergio Romo RP Read more

Warriors: Even the team's logo, theme, mascot and uniforms are terrible.I can't stand the Warriors. They are the epitome of terrible sports franchises. And in an era that is certainly the worst for Bay Area sports, they are the worst. They are so eternally bad from play on the court to management decisions that I think they should be dragged out into the street and relieved of their miserable lives. If I were an NBA player on draft day I would have my eyes shut, fingers crossed and would be repeating this mantra: "Anyone but the Warriors, anyone but the Warriors."

In their most recent successful season they rode the back of international thug Stephen Jackson, made the first round of the playoffs then traded away everyone who could play. Then their only remaining star, Monta "Scooter" Ellis broke his ankle doing side shows on a Vespa. Read more

Penalty Flag: slowing down the game.There are too many penalties in the NFL. I said it. It seems like every game I watch is held up, stopped, drawn out and essentially boring. Between all the beer commercials, penalties, timeouts and instant video reviews.

How irritating is it to have to watch a referee watch a play in a little booth on the sideline?  Read more

Vernon Davis: arising star on the 49er offense. Image crtsy Flickr user Italian_Freedom_Fighter

This was supposed to be the year the Niners made the playoffs. I feel that the pieces are all there for this to be, not only a good team, but a Super Bowl team. Singletary is not a strategist and he plays a basic kind of football that is not getting the job done. Read more

Alex Smith: Providing the 49ers with balance.The 49ers abandoned the run and passed their way to victory. Alex Smith threw for two touchdowns as the Niners got the 20-3 win over the tough Jacksonville Jaguars. At the beginning of the season Singletary announced he was going to run, run , run the ball with Frank Gore. The Niners traditionally have been a team that used all facets of an offense to move the ball, and to win five Super Bowls. Read more

Coach Singletary: on the sidelines vs Arizona

Is Mike Singletary more hype than substance? Since getting the head coaching job in San Francisco (and a Boost Mobile advertisement deal and becoming the spokesman for the Niners ad campaign) he is 9-9. 

A narrow win this week over his former team the Chicago Bears ended a four game losing streak after a strong start. The Niners have been a lost team since the end of the Steve Young era. Things were looking up this season as the Niners jumped to an impressive 3-1 start with a season opening win over division rival Arizona. Read more

Oakland As reliever Andrew Bailey: AL Rookie of the Year. Crtsy Flickr user ztil301

It was announced today that Oakland A's reliever Andrew Bailey earned the American League Rookie of the Year award. His appearance in the All-Star game made quite a wrinkle for baseball fans as people debated whether a guy no one had ever heard of should be in the All-Star game. With this announcement it appears it was a fair selection. Read more

THis is a funny video about the reason Americans don't watch soccer.

Patrick Willis: one of the new Niner stars.49ers v Titans: This Sunday the San Francisco 49ers take on the Tennessee Titans. The game is being billed as the battle of the 2nd chance quarterbacks. With the Titans' Vince Young fresh of his first start of the season and the team's first win seems to be in a position to remake a name for himself after last year's mid-season breakdown. The 49ers have their own resurging QB in Alex Smith who took the fall for the Niners fall from glory, despite being on a miserable squad. Read more