Cleaning out the inbox

Photo: SF Chronicle

I've been working on tidying up the inbox often this week with passings (and I still have enough remaining for one more post), but there still are the regular notes to be swept up before the football and boxing weekend.

The final Sunday of the baseball season was meaningless for the San Francisco Giants and their fans as far as postseason baseball, but Sunday was a big day anyway as the Giants and their fans said goodbye to longtime manager Bruce Bochy before the future Cooperstown inductee managed his final game with the Giants.
The Ringer writes a great article on Bochy and whether or not the game has seen the last of his type of manager,
The invasion of the game with the "analytic" types will slowly winnow the old school baseball types from the game and even though the San Diego Padres, where Bochy spent most of his playing career, has been rumored to be interested in bringing Bochy south, it's pretty clear where the game is going.

The loudest ovation on Bochy's day among the roughly 100 former Giants that attended the ceremonies and the game, was very easy to gauge as it was clearly Tim Lincecum, who received the loudest cheer.
Lincecum has easily been the most popular Giant of my tenure as a fan and as popular as others have been, it's still Lincecum out in front of that race.
Lincecum will never be inducted in Cooperstown, but his four year run from 2008-12 was certainly of that level that included two Cy Young awards.
Ann Killion of the San Francisco Chronicle writes of Lincecum's return, some memories and a little about what Lincecum is up to today, which is a lot when you consider how Lincecum stays away from the spotlight.
I may be writing posts on Bochy and/or Lincecum throughout the off-season.

The Chicago Tribune writes of the families and supporters of Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver as they continue to battle to clear the names of their ancestors on the 100th anniversary of the "Black Sox" scandal.
Jackson and Weaver are the two players that are involved with the scandal that has a viable claim of being somewhat innocent of the charges of throwing the 1919 World Series that would eventually claim the careers of several of the White Sox via commissioner decree the following year.

The Athletic travels through the state of Ohio for five days and eight hundred miles as the football passion of the state is recorded through the various people involved with high school, Ohio State, Ohio State's club team and one school playing eight-man football.
I found the rules and problems with eight-man football to be especially interesting and I wonder how viable eight-man football could be in some areas.
As one official was quoted as saying "Eight-man football is better than no football".

The Athletic returns with an article on Kellen Moore, the 30-year-old offensive wunderkind of the Dallas Cowboys,
Moore, who spent a few years in the league as a backup with the Cowboys and the Detroit Lions, is best remembered as a quarterback for his days at Boise State, where Moore was a finalist for the 2010 Heisman Trophy and for leading the Broncos to a 50-3 record with Moore at the helm.
That record is even more spectacular when you look at the three losses coming by a combined six points and two of the three losses could have been avoided as field goals that would have won the game were missed on the final play.
The article looks at the impact Moore has at Boise State and in the Boise area, where he is still popular enough to be a commercial endorser for a local auto group and public service announcements as well.

The LPGA's official site writes of the challenge of Nelly Korda to her sister Jessica as the best golfer in the family.
Jessica has more tour victories (5 to 2), but Nelly has passed her older sister in the Rolex World Rankings (9 to 19) and seems to have a better all-around game compared to Jessica's big hitter status off the tee, but can struggle with the short game.
I wonder what it would be like to compete with a sibling in an individual sport at the world's highest level?
I suppose that the travel and all that comes with the grind that surrounds a tour could be very nice to travel with but during the event? That has to be quite difficult if both are in a battle for position.