Oracle Outsider

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Brennan, and I was born into a family of San Francisco natives and raised during the dynasty years. Even though I don’t do it very often, I love writing about the Giants, and this is my main outlet for that. I hope you’ll stick around.

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Observations from the first two Giants home games of the year

Over the weekend, I went to the home opener and the game after the home opener, my 77th and 78th* games at Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T/Oracle Park. I think that’s enough games to be able to make wide-ranging claims about the state of the fanbase. The crowds are so back All three games in the first home…

Why were the Giants so good in 2021?

Ah, the 2021 Giants. One of the biggest baseball outliers in recent memory. Tied for the 14th-most wins in MLB history with teams like the 2019 Astros, 1932 Yankees, and 1931 A’s. All three of those teams surrounded their 107-win campaigns with consistent winning in seasons before and after, but not the Giants. From 2017…

My favorite unknown home run call

If you know me, chances are you probably know that my dream job is to be a professional baseball play-by-play broadcaster. What you might not know is that that’s been my dream job ever since I became a baseball fan. I’ve always subconsciously paid very close attention to what the broadcasters are saying: their word…

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