In the restaurant industry, this sort of thing is called a soft opening.

It is where a venue quietly opens its doors, with a goal of working out the kinks for a set period and building toward larger foot traffic.  It allows time for a menu to take shape, appropriate levels of service to be determined and so forth.  In that same vein, with the 2010 Major League Baseball season less than a month from commencing, this site launches.

Welcome to Giants Galore, a group blog about anything and everything concerning the San Francisco Giants.  Our site may be a celebration of Tim Lincecum or an indictment of Brian Sabean or it may provide simple analysis of the many other players and personnel associated with the club– all this remains to be seen, many possibilities exist.  One thing is clear: With spring training underway and the exhibition circuit heating up, there is already much to write about.  We hope to hit some kind of stride by Opening Day.

This will be a collaboration by four writers.  We are:

• Taylor Angel: A San Francisco resident, former high school baseball player and author of the blog, Straight Shot.
• Vaughn Brown: The advertising director for TechCrunch, another San Francisco resident and author of the blog, Man Law.  Vaughn admits he’s a relatively new fan but said he’s passionate and that he “got pretty into it last year.”
• Jennifer Prentice: A content coordinator for Experts Exchange who authors the fashion/technology blog, The Style Geek and served as sports editor of her college newspaper while an undergraduate.
• Graham Womack: A Bay Area writer, SEO consultant and Giants fan since first grade, who authors the blog, Baseball: Past and Present.

Beyond all this, we look forward to writing about the Giants and seeing what we can create together.