• Longstanding NBA commissioner David Stern has announced that he will retire on February 1, 2014. Stern's hand-picked replacement, Adam Silver will replace him at that time and the owners are already planning to negotiate a deal with him to make the transition occur seamlessly.
• During Stern's tenure, the average player salary jumped 20 times, from $250'000 to around $5 million and the TV revenue increased by 40 times. Stern is not without his dark spots though, having twice watched the NBA lose regular season games due to lengthy lockouts, and even more recently, vetoing Chris Paul's trade to the Lakers, instead watching him get dealt to the cross-town rival L.A. Clippers.
• The reasoning for the exact date of his departure is that it is exactly 30 years to the day after he first took the job (pictured above), a decision that in itself is in character with Stern's need to be in control and micromanage details.
Giants go up 2-0
• A day after Pablo Sandoval hit three home runs to fuel a rout, the Giants won Game 2 by a score of 2-0 with a double play RBI, a sacrifice and a terrific pitching performance from Madison Bumgarner.
• The closest the Tigers got to scoring was in the second inning when Prince Fielder was hit by a pitch and tried to score on Delmon Young's double. He was thrown out at home and instead of having no outs with men at second and third, the Tigers had one out with a man at second and could not get him (or anyone else) across the plate. The Tigers would only manage one more base hit, a single by Omar Infante (who was then picked off) for the rest of the game.
• The series now heads back to Detroit where the Tigers will try to come back and make it a series. The Giants on the other hand are in unusual territory, leading a series, after being down 2-0 and 3-1 in their previous two series.
• On Saturday, Detroit's Anibal Sanchez goes against San Francisco's Ryan Vogelsong.
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