Giant dwarfs the MVP field
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With all due respect to the many hitters having wonderful seasons in the National League -- have you noticed that while Manny Ramirez is the only AL player with 40 home runs the NL has seven -- there is only one choice for MVP in the senior circuit: Barry Bonds.
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Make it eight straight games a Giants starting pitcher hasn&#39;t retired a hitter in the sixth inning. It&#39;s no way to conduct a pennant race, but with the Arizona Diamondbacks in town, who cares?
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For quite some time there, Barry Bonds wasn&#39;t the only sure thing the Giants had going for them. They also had a 300-save closer available in Robb Nen, night after night and year after year.
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Every year they bill this as the presentation of the biggest award in sports. It&#39;s supposed to be a prestigious honor, meant to go to the best college player in the country.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Though Randy Johnson&#39;s lost season keeps getting worse, he still is chasing perfection in every start. Against the surging San Francisco Giants, he wasn&#39;t even close.
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At least Kevin Lewis has his introduction down pat. As his teammates have gone down in bunches, he is still the Giants&#39; middle linebacker, which means he serves as the welcoming committee to one new face after another.
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At last, Shea Hillenbrand got that big clutch hit the San Francisco Giants have been waiting for. Hillenbrand singled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning and the Giants beat the slumping San Diego Padres 3-2 Tuesday night.
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Barry Bonds barely missed his 700th homer, but J.T. Snow connected following yet another walk to the San Francisco slugger and the Giants beat the Brewers, 8-1, behind Brett Tomko's four-hitter last night in Milwaukee.
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Joe Borchard set a small crowd abuzz with the longest homer in the 14-year history of US Cellular Field. But some small ball -- a bunt and aggressive baserunning by Timo Perez -- were just
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Major League Baseball (MLB) was facing  one of the biggest crises in its long history on Friday, after  the name of Barry Bonds was added to a growing list of Most  Valuable Players (MVP) linked with steroid use.
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There were some skeptics wondering if Giants manager Felipe Alou was making the right decision by putting veteran Kirk Rueter on the hill in literally the biggest game
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By Barry Bonds&#39; own humble assessment, this year&#39;s Most Valuable Player vote in the National League could have gone any way, could have gone three ways.
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Houston&#39;s Roger Clemens and Arizona&#39;s Randy Johnson finished 1-2 in the National League Cy Young Award voting. The Giants&#39; Jason Schmidt didn&#39;t even finish first in the under-40 division.
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The Giants surprised even their most ardent fans with their Super Bowl victory. On Tuesday, the new N.F.L. champions were the ones left awestruck.
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Best Player: It was hard to argue with Boston&#39;s Manny Ramirez, who was recognized as the MVP. A case could be made for at least four or five other Red Sox, but Ramirez made a significant contribution with his bat in every game.
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During a three-year career in which Corey Websterâs role with the Giants has expanded and shrunk, again and again, a crowd at his locker has not always been a positive thing.
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For one glorious summer, Mark McGwire was bigger than baseball itself. America stopped to watch each time he came to the plate, and cheered every time he sent a ball into orbit. He could do no wrong, it seemed. Surely he would be a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame someday.