The San Francisco Giants did not have the MLB trade deadline that some had hoped for, continuing a worrying trend for their front office.

As Tim Kelly of Bleacher Report looked around the league for one word to describe each team, they found an interesting one for the Giants. In an ominous outlook for the front office, ‘pink’ was used to express how he felt their future looked.

“[San Francisco] President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi learned under two Hall of Fame-level executives in Billy Beane and Andrew Friedman, but outside of a Cinderella season in 2021, hasn’t been able to replicate the success of his two mentors,” said Kelly. “The Giants are under .500, and still have the same lack of superstars as when he arrived in November of 2018. A year after manager Gabe Kapler was dismissed, you wonder whether Zaidi will receive a pink slip from San Francisco ownership in the coming months.”

It has not been a year to write home about for the San Francisco President of Baseball Operations.

He gave a few huge contracts out in the offseason in hopes of pushing over the edge, but almost none of the signings have worked out in his favor.

The biggest addition was reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell.

Snell began his Giants tenure about as poorly as anyone could have imagined. He started the year late because he missed Spring Training. Once he finally got on the mound, he was shelled and then placed on the injured list.

Things have finally turned a corner, though. He looked vintage in the month of July, putting forth a 0.75 ERA across 24 innings of work in four games.

Though he was finally looking like the player that San Francisco had paid $32 million for, it was a bit too late for them to be real contenders. Given that he has a player option next year and will almost certainly not be taking it, pretty much everyone wanted Zaidi to trade him away in a sellers market.

Instead, they kept him around. He threw a no-hitter, which was fun, but was it worth missing out on the prospects that he could have brought in?

Matt Chapman was a similar case of someone that was signed to a big one-year deal with player options in place after that. He didn’t get traded, which wasn’t too surprising, but he also hasn’t had a huge impact.

Jorge Soler also got off to a pretty horrid start, but turned things around and finally started playing at a high level. Though he was the one player of the three that was under contract for the next few seasons, he was the one player they decided to ship off.

Jung Hoo Lee was a big signing that hasn’t worked out because he got injured, it’s a bit unfair to blame that on Zaidi.

It’s just been a confusing few months for the Giants. Them switching leadership at the season’s end would not be surprising at all.

The serial offenders are, in many ways, the result of California’s decades-long struggle to treat its mentally ill residents.

State law allows courts to place people in conservatorships — in which another party manages finances and medical treatment — if they pose a threat to themselves or others or are so gravely disabled that they can’t provide for their own basic needs.

On paper, Triball — the man who allegedly threatened to hogtie and burn Lemon — is a prime candidate for conservatorship. According to Mandelman, who has spoken with police about Triball, the 38-year-old is not conserved.

Triball has an extensive history of drug use and homelessness and has physically assaulted people in the Castro multiple times over the last four years.

In 2020, Triball was accused of chasing a man after trapping him inside a business. In 2021, he was arrested on suspicion of battery against a police officer. In 2022, he allegedly punched a man’s face, breaking his nose, outside a bar. Most recently, he threatened to attack a tourist with a blowtorch. 

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Complaints are brewing over a foul odor coming from the Anchor brewery in San Francisco.

People living near the brewery located on Mariposa Street in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, say they first noticed the stench earlier this week.

“We’ve just been referring to it as the bad breath smell,” said Sara Alfageeh, a San Francisco resident who often plays pickleball at a park across from the Anchor Brewing Company.

“It comes in whiffs and waves and it’s just a very strong, pungent odor, you know – it’s not pleasant,” added Shaharyar Anjum.

Sapporo sold the beloved brewery in May and it’s now gearing up to reopen.

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“We definitely noticed a really awful pungent smell about two weeks ago,” explained Alfageeh.

From pickleball players to people coming out of a preschool down the block, there were plenty of complaints on the streets.

“The whole two or three-block radius smells like poop all the time,” said Ben Mann, who was picking up his daughter from preschool. “As soon as I get out of the car, it’s just over whelming, you can’t miss it – in fact I just saw someone get out their car over there and they said ‘ew it smells like poop.”‘

The smell is apparently coming from old wastewater treatment tanks used in Anchor’s brewing process.

A spokesperson for the brewery’s new owner told the San Francisco Chronicle that the tanks weren’t decommissioned properly, so they’ve now brought in crews to demolish the tanks.

Everyone from residents to runners, to dog walkers are starting to lose patience.

“It kind of smells like manure, it definitely smells like picking up horse poop which I’ve done before,” said Chris Castro, adding that sometimes he tries to avoid the area. “Unfortunately, I don’t always have that option, but yeah I’ll try to avoid the park here.”

Meanwhile, efforts to get the place cleaned up continue. There is no word on when the smell is expected to fade away.