Just prior to the season, we chatted with the impresario behind the Giants' latest round of TV ads. As we put it then, "The San Francisco Giants' entire ad campaign used to boil down to 'Come
watch: We Got Barry.' Now the overriding message is, 'Come watch:
Barry's gone.'" Needless to say, it hasn't worked out that way -- despite the team's effort to, in effect, ride Barry as far as he would take them and then, when he grew to be a liability, derive what energy it could by burning his corpse. No
Keith AllisonBoston castoff Brad Penny has already earned his keep with the Giants​Raise your right hand high over your head if you predicted that the San Francisco Giants' scrap-heap recovery project, Brad Penny, would come within three outs of throwing a shutout last night in a dominant debut vs. a very good Philadelphia team. You are all liars. How a pitcher who was getting regularly lit up in Boston like a San Francisco outhouse managed to immediately "revert to All-Star form" when pitchin
