San Francisco, CA
49ers beat Seahawks: San Francisco won’t lose unless opponent is perfect
Watch Deebo Samuel’s 74-yard touchdown through the 49ers’ 41–23 wild-card win over the Seahawks once more. Pause it 1.5 seconds in, whereas Brock Purdy is whipping a pretend toss to his proper aspect. There are 9 defensive gamers in plain view, six of them are barreling towards Christian McCaffrey, abruptly entranced with and terrified by the proposition of his getting one other contact.
Right here it’s, so you possibly can comply with alongside:
Pause it once more, this time after three seconds. Purdy completes his rollout and calmly seems downfield as a Seahawks linebacker, Cody Barton, runs at him together with his palms within the air. Purdy, for these of you who plugged your ears for a majority of this broadcast, was the final participant (262nd) taken within the 2022 draft. He’s the youngest participant in NFL historical past to throw for not less than two touchdowns and run for an additional in a playoff sport. He’s the primary rookie to account for 4 whole touchdowns in a playoff sport. He began his first playoff sport wanting like a toddler on a surfboard and ended it wanting like Kelly Slater.
Pause it at 5 seconds. Samuel will get his palms on the ball and there isn’t a participant on both aspect of him for 4 yards. He seems like a well-known particular person wading comfortably by a live performance crowd aided by private safety.
Pause it at six seconds and watch George Kittle use his physique to legally field a defender out of the play.
Pause it at seven seconds, when Samuel seems round, seemingly giddy about how a lot room he has, sufficient that he can skip-hop a bit as he finds his path to the tip zone.
Pause it at 9 seconds and watch Brandon Aiyuk drive potential Defensive Rookie of the Yr Tariq Woolen out of the play so Samuel can preserve operating. This can be a former-first-round-pick huge receiver scrapping like a barfly.
Pause it at 11 seconds when it turns into clear that no steroid on the earth may be taken to assist somebody stop Samuel from scoring at this level. Medina Spirit wouldn’t have caught him. Our bodies fall behind him like cardboard tombstones on Halloween.
Pause it at 13 seconds and notice that Samuel wasn’t even operating as quick as he presumably may.
Good luck making an attempt to deal with Samuel. (And a number of other different 49ers.)
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Right here, in an area of time shorter than your common TikTok video, was the merciless, unvarnished fact about this yr’s NFC playoffs: You will should be good to beat the 49ers. Completely, stone-cold good. The rookie quarterback is greater than ok. The skill-position gamers are higher than your protection. The protection is best than another within the league. They block effectively, and never simply throughout the offensive line. Everybody takes a flip. They create open house higher than any scheme in soccer. They’ve extra useful workforce velocity than anybody else within the NFL. They’re greater, faster, harder, meaner, higher coached and extra environment friendly.
The Seahawks gave it their finest effort and completed like an newbie golfer on the Masters. After the sport, Pete Carroll stated he was pissed off as a result of he thought the sport was of their grasp. They gained’t be the one ones to really feel that means this postseason.
The 49ers can transfer on a workforce in so many alternative methods. They’ll come off the opening kickoff wielding a hammer and bludgeoning them to items. Their protection can crawl its means into the backfield and strip-sack you to dying. Or they may do what they did Saturday in opposition to Seattle. It may appear to be an actual race. It may look aggressive. It may search for half-hour like each groups belong on the identical discipline, in the identical division, in the identical playoff bracket. After which, like Eliud Kipchoge in a marathon, you flip round and so they’re forward by eight miles, cruising, smiling, waving to whoever can nonetheless see them off within the distance.
There are a handful of excellent groups on this yr’s postseason discipline, however so few of them profile just like the 49ers. We’ve seen the Payments falter. We’ve seen what the Chiefs are lacking, by way of a constant, complementary operating sport that may take the stress off Patrick Mahomes when dealing with the league’s finest secondaries. We all know what the Eagles appear to be with out Jalen Hurts, or with out him at full power. We’ve not seen the 49ers lose since Halloween. In that point interval, we’ve got presumably seen one or two video games you could possibly classify as unhealthy or sloppy. We have seen 11 consecutive wins, which is the longest profitable streak within the NFL. We’ve seen shutout wins. We’ve seen 38–10, 35–7 and 38–13.
We’ll prevent the difficulty of going again and watching all of them. Every thing that makes the 49ers so terrifying was there in that 13 seconds in opposition to the Seahawks on Saturday. Who’s stopping that?
One of the reasons that the San Francisco Giants have gotten off to such a strong start in the 2025 MLB regular season is how good their pitching staff has been.
Logan Webb and Robbie Ray have been an excellent one-two punch to begin the campaign, throwing 39.1 innings with 39 strikeouts and a 2.75 ERA.
They are anchoring the rotation currently with Jordan Hicks, Justin Verlander and Landen Roupp struggling to find their footing out of the gate. Those three have 49 innings pitched but 32 earned runs allowed.
Some of that has been self-inflicted damage, as Hicks and Verlander are walking too many batters with BB/9 ratios of 3.5 and 4.3, respectively. Ray’s an even higher 5.9, but he has managed to limit damage thus far.
There are some concerns about the performance of Hicks and Verlander out of the gate, but Roupp’s slow start, based on some of his raw statistics, don’t paint the entire picture.
His advanced numbers suggest that he has been throwing the ball a lot better than his ERA shows that he has been.
His 4.80 ERA isn’t pretty, but he has a FIP of 2.62, which insinuates that the inflated number is partially due to some bad luck or things outside of his control. Walks are playing a part, as he has issued seven in 15 innings, a 4.2 BB/9 ratio.
That has led to an inflated 1.600 WHIP as well, allowing 17 hits in that span.
Cutting down on the walks will be key to his numbers turning around in every facet. But, he has been stellar out of the gate, as shared by Michael Salfino of The Athletic (subscription required).
“He has an ERA of 4.80 but an xERA of 2.57, and his K% is right at 30% (29.9% is top 20 in MLB). His walk rate is high, and that’s troubling, but it’s not radically high. I’d expect it to be marginally inflated relative to average for the rest of the year, maybe one percentage point higher than the league average,” he wrote.
Through 15 innings, Roupp has struck out 20 batters. In two out of his three starts, he has reached the eight-strikeout mark despite not pitching more than five innings in either of those outings.
His average exit velocity of 85.6 mph and hard-hit rate of 27.5% are both excellent numbers, better than the league average.
The .410 batting average on balls in play is also an unsustainable number. Once that begins regressing to the mean of .290, his overall numbers will begin to increase with fewer opponents getting on base.
It is only a matter of time until Roupp’s raw stats begin to reflect his performance based on advanced stats.
Heart has announced dates for its August 2025 concert tour.
And the Heart trek stops in the Bay Area on Aug. 10 at Chase Center in San Francisco.
Other Golden State dates for Heart are in Bakersfield, San Diego and Rancho Mirage. See heart-music.com for details.
Fellow classic rock great Todd Rundgren is supporting the band on some of these dates, including at the San Francisco show.
Heart, Todd Rundgren tickets for San Francisco go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. April 24, while an artist presale begins on April 21, ticketmaster.com.
Heart August concert dates:
Gorge Amphitheatre, Quincy, Washington, Aug. 8
Chase Center, San Francisco, Aug. 10
Dignity Health Arena, Bakersfield, Aug. 12
Pechanga Arena, San Diego, Aug. 13
Agua Caliente Rancho Mirage, Rancho Mirage, Aug. 15
Findlay Toyota Center, Prescott Valley, Arizona, Aug. 16
Blue Arena, Loveland, Colorado, Aug. 18
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, Aug. 19
T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 21
Des Moines Civic Center, Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 23
Vibrant Arena, Moline, Illinois, Aug. 24
The University of Akron – E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall, Akron, Ohio, Aug. 26
The Great Allentown Fair, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Aug. 27
CMAC, Canadaigua, New York, Aug. 29
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, New York, Aug. 30
San Francisco, CA
SF approves parking meter rate hike to help SFMTA's projected $320 million budget deficit
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — An increase to parking meter rates throughout the city is looming over San Francisco
“I definitely think it’s outrageous. The parking situation isn’t getting any better,” said Garrett De La Concepcion, a San Francisco resident.
Garrett De La Concepcion lives in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood just a few blocks from Chase Center. The affordable housing building where he lives doesn’t have a garage, so he relies on finding street parking every day.
“Right now, I’m probably paying between $19 to $20 bucks a day. It just depends on if there is a game, a Warriors game or a concert then I’m paying close to $60,” said De La Concepcion.
Hearing about the city increasing meter rates to $0.25 an hour citywide is tough to process.
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“It adds up every single day,” said De La Concepcion.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is facing a projected $320 million budget deficit by July of 2026.
Businesses worry about the impact of the price hike so many view the $0.25 an hour increase as just the start.
“We lose a lot of customers because they can’t park. They have nowhere to park and it’s too expensive. It’s taking too much out of our pockets,” said Kenneth Escalante, Supervisor at Cenote Restaurant.
Not to mention his employees.
“It’s already very expensive down here just to find any parking at all. So, if it’s already taking a big chunk of their pocket why? It’s daily too. You have to spend $10 to $ 20 daily and it’s just going to add up eventually. So that is not very good for us,” said Escalante.
MORE: SF speed cameras now in use; warnings to be given out for 2 months before citations
At Tuesday’s meeting, the SFMTA board voted to amend a Transportation Code to increase the minimum parking meter rate.
“To increase the minimum parking meter hourly rate from $0.50 to $1 and to charge a $0.10 convenience fee when paying for parking using a mobile device.”
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Sofia Guglani, owner of Avotast, is concerned that all these changes will impact everyone differently, from residents, customers to business owners.
“I think it’s also going to impact the suppliers that come to drop ingredients for us already because they already charge us a gas fee. I think that fee might increase because they have to pay more to park and deliver for us,” said Guglani.
SFMTA’s confirmed these changes will go into effect in late May.
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