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Spring Training
2010 Season

Pacific Time:

 

Sat Mar 13th 11am - 11:50am

Sun Mar 14th Noon - 12:50pm


Sat. Mar 20th Noon - 12:50pm

Sun. Mar 21st Noon - 12:50pm



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Will air on KNBR
680AM
in the
Bay Area or
on KNBR.com

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NOTE: Marty's Post-game show will follow the game 'wrap up'

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  Marty 12 Broadcast: Interviews with Cubs: Alfonso Soriano & Tom Gorzelanny

rafaelcorral writes "


Enjoyable interview with Chicago Cubs' left fielder Alfonso Soriano. The Cubs hope Soriano's health woes are behind him and adjustments at plate will return him to normal:

Soriano interview


Interview with Cubs pitcher Tom Gorzelanny. The Lefty is projected to be the Team's 5th starter:

Gorzelanny interview




"
 
 
  Posted by raf on Thursday, March 04 @ 10:01:30 CST
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  Amaury Pi Gonzalez Inside the Press Box: Can we all get along?

maury writes "New York, Los Angeles and Chicago do not have a problem, why should the A'S and Giants have a problem in the Bay Area?"
 
 
  Posted by marty on Thursday, February 25 @ 18:17:04 CST
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  Inside the Press Box Inside the Press Box: Pitching, Pitching, Pitching by Don August

By Don August

The San Francisco Giants pitching staff put major league baseball on notice last season by topping all of baseball in many categories.
          The Giants staff was first in complete games (11), shutouts (18), and strikeouts (1302) and had the second best earned run average (3.55) in baseball. So it's no surprise that this year's staff, anchored by two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lince*****, has Giants fans thinking play-offs.

         But is this wishful thinking?

         A look at the numbers may lead you to believe it is.

         On the mound, the trio of Lincecu, Matt Cain and Barry Zito look like a solid front end of a rotation. But the truth is only Lince***** has a winning track record. The 25-year-old has a 40-17 record during his first three seasons in the majors and of course back-to-back Cy Young awards.

But after him, things get shaky.

          Matt Cain enjoyed great success last season and because of it, he landed on the national league all star team for the first time in his career. But was his 14-8 record misleading?

          Cain was 9-1 on June 20th and proceeded to go 5-7 the rest of the way. His second half swoon looked more like his first three full seasons when he struggled to a 28-42 record.

          Which Cain will show up in 2010 ?

          Barry Zito's struggles have been well chronicled since signing with the Giants. The numbers that hurt the most are his first half struggles.

         Over the past two seasons, Zito is 1-14 through the month of May. That doesn't bode well for a team hoping to get off to a fast start. His second half numbers have improved (18-16 the last two seasons) but those wins mean nothing if a team is out of the race.

         The Giants desperately need Zito to return to his glory days of 2001-02 when he posted a 40-13 record with Oakland. Since signing with San Francisco, he is 31-43 in three seasons.

Was his Cy Young season of 2002 a once in a lifetime performance?

         The fourth and fifth spots in the rotation will most likely be held by Jonathan Sanchez and rookie phenom Madison Bumgarner.

          Sanchez, despite holding a 17-24 record over his first two full seasons, will be penciled in as the fourth starter. The Giants are hoping his untapped potential, which showed last year with his no-hitter against San Diego, is ready to take center stage.

          But with a 4.81 lifetime ERA and 21-30 career record, is potential all he will be?

Bumgarner, Joe Martinez, recently signed Todd Wellemeyer and minor leaguer Kevin Pucetas will get long looks as the fifth starter.

          Wellemeyer has the experience of the group with a 29-29 career record but it's clear Bumgarner has the eyes of the organization squarely on him.

          The 2010 Giants pitching staff has the looks of rotation that can make a run at the National League West Title. Lincecu has proved he has what it takes to put a team on his shoulders, but will those shoulders be strong enough to carry an entire staff to bigger and better things.

          Or will he even have to?




 
 
  Posted by marty on Thursday, February 25 @ 09:13:34 CST
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  Inside the Press Box Inside the Press Box: Huff, DeRosa and Home Runs by Don August


        By Don August

Despite having the second best pitching staff in all of baseball last season, the San Francisco Giants could do no better than third place in the National League West.

          It was no secret that the offense let the team down, as they finished just seven games behind division winning Los Angeles.

          With that in mind, general manager Brian Sabean brought in two players that he hopes will be the difference in helping the Giants make a push for the playoffs.

          Mark DeRosa and Aubrey Huff each signed with San Francisco during the off-season and both will carry high expectations to bring a big punch to a listless offense.

          Last year,  DeRosa hit 23 home runs, splitting time between Cleveland and St. Louis. He joins an outfield in San Francisco that saw its main four players Nate Schierholtz, Aaron Rowand, Fred Lewis and Randy Winn, combine to hit just 26 in all of 2009.

         With Winn now in New York and Lewis struggling to stay with the team, pressure will be on DeRosa, Rowand and Schierholtz to up the home run production.

          Huff is expected to play first base this year, allowing rising star Pablo Sandoval to stay at third base. The Giants are hoping Huff can get offensive after struggling last season to the tune of a .241 batting average and 15 home runs. Huff has a lifetime average of .282 and twice has hit over 30 home runs.

          If all goes right for San Francisco, the addition of Huff to the infield can give the Giants a power hitting trio with Sandoval (24 hrs in 2009), catcher Benji Molina (20 hrs). Add to that, potential .300 hitters shortstop Edgar Renteria and second baseman Freddie Sanchez and last years offense failures can be a distant memory.

          While home runs don't guarantee success the numbers do speak for themselves.

          Last season the top 5 home run hitting teams, the Yankees, Rangers, Phillies, Blue Jays and Red Sox, averaged 90 wins. The bottom five, Mets, Giants, Pirates, A's and Padres averaged 70 wins.

          The Giants still have a pitching staff that will rival any in baseball. Two-time Cy Young award winner    Tim Lince***** leads the staff that features Matt Cain, Barry Zito, Jonathan Sanchez and rookie phenom Madison Bumgarner.

         A little offense can go a long way in making the Giants a contender.






 
 
  Posted by marty on Tuesday, February 23 @ 22:44:07 CST
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  Baseball Interviews Broadcast: Interviews with Giants' Aaron Rowand & Todd Wellemeyer

rafaelcorral writes "

Marty Interviews San Francisco Giants CF Aaron Rowand. He lost 10 pounds in the offseason, thanks largely to dieting and becoming an avid bike rider. He's targeted as the leadoff hitter, but by the time he learned of his new role, he had already lost significant weight.

Rowand interview


Interview with Todd Wellemeyer. A 13-game winner for St. Louis in 2008. He went 7-10 in 28 appearances (21 starts) in 2009 with St. Louis while missing time with an elbow injury.

Wellemeyer interview




"
 
 
  Posted by raf on Tuesday, February 23 @ 10:32:07 CST
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  Marty 10 Daily Dish: Excellent A's Season Tickets Available

Mike Medeiros of WholesaleautosRus a long time sponsor of my shows and a good friend has two A's season tickets available in section 117 eight (8) rows back from the screen directly behind home plate to sell.

I sit in those seats quite often and if you have seen me there you know Shooty Babitt uusally sits one row in front of me...these are great seats and will go quickly...please give Mike a call if you are interested at 1-888-275- 5300....or Mike's cell phone 510 386 6917.

Great move getting Carney Lansford back in Oakland as part of the A's Comcast pre and post game shows...Carnac is one of the genuine people in the game and will be terrific analyzing the ball club...now if they will just let some of the veterans like Carney be spring training instructors things will look up very quickly...imagine Ray Fosse working with the catchers and going over his thoughts on how to call a game..priceless information..Marty
 
 
  Posted by marty on Friday, February 12 @ 10:35:15 CST
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  Marty 12 Inside the Press Box: From Lowell Cohn in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat

A's radio loss is Giants' gain
Published: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 3:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 3:41 p.m.
( page all of 3 )

MY HOUSE — Seismic shift in Bay Area baseball radio broadcasting. Big deal. You should know about this.



Marty Lurie, baseball raconteur, baseball interviewer deluxe, baseball historian, a man you want on your side, has left the A’s after 12 seasons and will work for the Giants this year. No disrespect to the A’s, but in terms of radio stations, that’s like going from the minors to the majors. The Giants broadcast their games over KNBR, the sports leader. KNBR is the radio voice of sports around here. Can you tell me what station carries the A’s? If you’re interested, look it up.

In the interest of full disclosure, I tell you Marty is one of my closest friends — has been for a long time. I have a bias when it comes to his work, sure, but just about everyone agrees with me about Marty. He came by my house in the Oakland hills from his house in the Oakland hills the other day and we talked for two hours. He had a whopper of a cold and I made it my business to stay away from him, although I gave him a box of Kleenex.

This is Marty’s story — what he did for the A’s and how he ended up at the Giants. He used to be a big-deal defense attorney in San Francisco, but left that profession because he wanted to enjoy life. He started working at KECG FM in El Cerrito in 1996, started real small and used to tell himself, “I want to create a station like KNBR.” Life is filled with lovely ironies.

For years Marty was an independent sports producer for the A’s. He booked the guests for his pregame show, “Right Off the Bat.” He sold his own advertising. He was a one-man band. He could walk into the visiting clubhouse of any major-league club, and players and managers and executives would hurry over to him. “Hi, Marty, what do you need?” That’s the kind respect Marty has in the bigs. I know because I’ve seen it happen.

Every year he would negotiate his own deal with the A's radio station. The A’s never employed him and if you don’t mind my adding a personal note, I don’t believe the A’s understand what a treasure Marty is. The A’s sometimes changed stations in the offseason and Marty would worry if there even would be a place for him on the broadcasts. The uncertainty would make him nuts.

Last August he went to the A’s and asked what was going on with the station. Would he be back to do what he’d been doing? The A’s said there were new people at the radio station (OK, it’s KTRB) and there was lack of clarity.

“Here I go through another winter of uncertainty,” Marty thought.

Late last season he bumped into Giants president Larry Baer at AT&T Park. Baer always had respected Marty’s work and he complimented Marty on something he recently had done. In one of those daring moments that come to regular people from time to time, Marty took a chance. He heard himself say to Baer, “At some point I’d love to bring my show over to you.”

It’s not like the A’s were fighting to keep him.

To which Baer replied, “Are you a free agent?”

“I realized I am a free agent,” Marty told me. “I’m like one of the players. I own the whole show.”

He told Baer he was a free agent.

“I don’t want to interfere with the A’s in any way,” Baer said.

They left it at that, said they might talk after the season. Marty again went to the A’s and asked if he was included in their plans. Again the A’s told him they didn’t know what would happen at the radio station. The A’s appeared to have no clout with the station, which strikes me as strange and disappointing.

In late October, Marty contacted Baer and said he was interested in exploring possibilities. Baer spoke to the people at KNBR — made the proper introductions. And then Marty was waiting again. He said it was like being a lawyer and waiting for the jury’s verdict.

“When I was waiting for the jury,” Marty said, “I’d walk around every day looking for little signs, looking at notes, walking into walls.”

Finally, KNBR gave him the verdict. Yes. Come on over.

“Marty brings a passion and love for baseball,” Lee Hammer, Director of Operations for KNBR, told me. “Adding him to KNBR gives Giants fans more time to talk about baseball. He does a fabulous job. I’ve listened to Marty over the years and I’m glad to have him as part of the KNBR family."

Marty still will be a free agent. He is bringing over some of his A’s advertisers like Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Truitt and White, Nation’s Giant Hamburgers. They’re as stoked about the move as he is. Marty will have a pregame show and a postgame show on weekends. He will begin on March 6 at the Giants’ first spring-training home game.

“I will look at all of baseball through a Giants’ lens,” he said. “I’ll preview the major games of the day and review the night before and get you ready for baseball that day. I’ll take calls and talk to the fans.”

He will analyze and bring in the top personalities of baseball — former players, scouts, executives, beat writers. He will bring to the show the essence of baseball. He likens a baseball season to a novel. Each game is one chapter leading to a dramatic climax and Marty will lead listeners through the chapters to the conclusion.

After he blew his nose for the 100th time, I asked Marty how he feels about the move to the Giants.

“I’m the luckiest man in the world,” he said.

If you don’t mind me butting in — Giants fans are lucky, too.

For more on the world of sports in general and the Bay Area in particular, go to the Cohn Zohn at blog.pressdemocrat.com/cohn. You can reach Staff Columnist Lowell Cohn at lowell.cohn@pressdemocrat.com.


 
 
  Posted by marty on Monday, February 08 @ 20:01:04 CST
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  Amaury Pi Gonzalez Inside the Press Box: Yankees visit twice: The toughest ticket this summer

maury writes "
Spring Training is just around the corner, both A'S and Giants are now joined by a total of 13 other teams in the Arizona desert, with the Cincinnati Reds training for the first time this year in Goodyear, Arizona.
Now, Arizona has half of the major league teams in Spring training, with Florida the other half.
But come this summer the hottest and toughest ticket to get in the Bay Area might be the World Champion New York Yankees at the Oakland A'S.

"
 
 
  Posted by marty on Sunday, February 07 @ 22:15:39 CST
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  Baseball Interviews Broadcast: Interviews with Pablo Sandoval and Coco Crisp

rafaelcorral writes "


Enjoyable interview with Giants' Pablo Sandoval at the Santa Clara Hot Stove Banquet:

Panda interview


Interview with A's new Centerfielder Coco Crisp, signed as a free agent Dec. 23:

Coco interview




"
 
 
  Posted by raf on Tuesday, February 02 @ 11:46:02 CST
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  Marty 7 Broadcast: Marty Lurie Moves to KNBR For 2010 Season



For Immediate Release

                                                                        Sheri Nelson, Marketing Director, KNBR 680 415/995-6930
                                                                        Lee Hammer, Program Director,   KNBR 680 415/995-6885
                                                                        Marty Lurie, Host KNBR 510/338-0907

“KNBR 680 ADDS NEW GIANTS SHOW TO PROGRAMMING ROSTER”

MARTY LURIE TO HOST PRE/POST GAME SHOW
BEGINNING WITH GIANTS ’10 SEASON

(SAN FRANCISCO January 29, 2010)  Longtime baseball aficionado, Marty Lurie, comes across the Bay to host two new shows on KNBR 680. 

The shows, aptly dubbed the “KNBR 680 Giants Pre-Game, with Marty Lurie” and “KNBR 680 Post-Game with Marty Lurie” will air on weekends prior to and after San Francisco Giants’ games aired on KNBR 680.  Lurie’s first show will be Saturday, March 6th with the team’s first home Spring Training game, Saturday, March 6th and will continue throughout the season.  Showtimes will vary depending on the start of each game.

Each show will be an hour long and feature interviews with current players, past and future Hall-of-Famers, officials, writers and many of those behind the scenes including scouts, coaches and front office personnel.  Listeners can look forward to a program full of the color, humor and the personality that makes up baseball today.  Lurie will also analyze and offer detailed coverage of the games of the day in both the American and National Leagues.  Most importantly, the show will take calls and hear from the fans themselves. 

“I'm excited to add Marty to the line-up of talk show hosts at KNBR”, offers Lee Hammer, Director of Operations/Cumulus San Francisco.  “Marty has an incredible baseball knowledge and passion for the game, and he'll share that with our audience each and every weekend.   Marty's pre and post game shows also gives Giants fans more opportunity to talk about Giants baseball.”

Marty Lurie, a well known Bay Area broadcaster, has hosted several successful baseball programs including Inside Baseball Saturday Night, Right off the Bat and the MLBPA Player’s Talk Show.  He also currently writes “Batter Up” a column carried at BayAreaNewsGroup.com and in their newspapers, as well.  

Listeners can access Marty on Facebook by searching “Marty Lurie”. 

KNBR 680 is the Bay Area’s Sports Leader and home of the San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors Games.  All regular season and most pre-season Giants games will air on KNBR 680 beginning March 6th.  More info at KNBR.com. 

Photos can be accessed at:  http://www.loveofthegameproductions.com/modules.php?set_albumName=martypics&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

Cumulus Media Inc. is the second-largest radio company in the United States based on station count.  Giving effect to the completion of all pending acquisitions Cumulus directly and through its investment in Cumulus Media Partners will own or operate 339 radio stations in 65 U.S. media markets. 
(SAN FRANCISCO January 29, 2010)  Longtime baseball aficionado, Marty Lurie, comes across the Bay to host two new shows on KNBR 680. 

 
 
  Posted by marty on Monday, February 01 @ 15:22:11 CST
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