In Saturday’s edition, the New York Times discovers Colma.

SFist has some kind of zombie fixation. In addition to some kind of zombie-ite (zombian? zombellian?) flashmob-type gathering tomorrow, there will be some kind of weird Santa event, possibly involving the same crowd.
 

In a rather touching spontaneous tribute, Dominican major-leaguers led a huge memorial march of townspeople from the home of former Giant shortstop Jose Uribe — who died in a traffic accident early Friday — to the local ballpark.

Uribe’s death prompted an outpouring of grief in his hometown, where Los Angeles Angels outfielder Vladimir Guerrero led thousands of mourners through the streets.

Guerrero blasted music out of a van as they marched from the Uribe family home to the town’s baseball field. Among the mourners was Chicago White Sox shortstop Juan Uribe, a second cousin of Jose Uribe and from the same town.

The SFGate’s “Betting Fool” commented: “I started to wonder: Is this a sign from above? Or worse yet, from below? One of the more popular Giants of modern time is killed right after Bonds signs on for likely his last year with the Giants?”

This line of thought reminds me of an incident very late in the season in the early 1980s. The Giants stank big-time. They had just lost in an embarrassing fashion, and just after the final out was recorded, an enraged drunken fan charged down the aisle in the upper deck at Candlestick, failed to stop his momentum, and plunged headfirst over the railing into the empty seats below. He died. The Giants players hurriedly dressed and fled the park without comment, knowing the incident would be seen as somehow a comment on the team’s play that year.

And that was late in a bad, losing season. For the “Betting Fool” to read a similar fate for the 2007 Giants months before spring training even begins seems to be stretching it. Why not wait until June and write the team off then, like everyone else does?