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Jesus Guzman and Madison Bumgarner are the latest National League West stars to make headlines. While guys like Yasiel Puig have been doing it on the field, Guzman and Bumgarner did so with their fists.Wednesday afternoon had yet another bench-clearing brawl in the NL West in store for us, and things got ugly.After the San Francisco Giants kept Guzman in the minors for years, he finally got his chance in the big leagues with the San Diego Padres, and he didn't take too kindly to the Giants failing to utilize him.On Tuesday night, Guzman belted a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth inning off Matt Cain to put the Padres up, 4-3. As he trotted (or skipped) down the first base line he yelled to his bench and showed up his former club.Bumgarner took notice.When Bumgarner faced Guzman for the first time on Wednesday afternoon he got his revenge, throwing way inside on Guzman on the first pitch of the at-bat.Bumgarner was clearly sending a message not to taunt the Giants, and Guzman was furious, walking out to meet the pitcher before catcher Buster Posey and home plate umpire Tony Randazzo held him back.However, Bumgarner appears to have preferred that the two let him go, as he walked over to Guzman, shouting at him the whole way.As the two got closer, the rest of the players got involved and the benches cleared, resulting in both teams pushing and shoving each other, although no serious fights broke out.It's not like the shot at Guzman on Wednesday was unexpected. If I were Jesus Guzman's ribs, I'd double my life insurance before he stands in against Bumgarner tomorrow. #sfgiants.— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) June 19, 2013 The fact of the matter is that if you show up your former team, you're in trouble. No self-respecting team of professional athletes is going to take any form of taunting lying down, and even the fans started jumping on Guzman. #Giants fans take great delight in Sergio Romo whiffing Jesus Guzman on three pitches to start the ninth.— Steve Corkran (@CorkOnTheNFL) June 19, 2013 From all of us here at AT&T Park, you stay classy Jesus Guzman!— Will Candlestick ™ (@CandlestickWill) June 19, 2013 Bumgarner certainly feels the same way the fans do, as he kept things short and simple in his postgame interview. Madison Bumgarner said, "there's no need to talk about that," when asked about throwing a pitch behind Jesus Guzman's back in the 2nd inning.— Steve Corkran (@CorkOnTheNFL) June 20, 2013 This was just another fight between NL West rivals, and it was the third major scrum of the year.The Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers got things started when Zack Greinke plunked Carlos Quentin and Quentin charged at Greinke, ultimately breaking his collarbone and putting him on the DL for a month.Exactly two months after fighting the Padres, the Dodgers were at it again with the Arizona Diamondbacks.Greinke hit Miguel Montero to defend his teammates after Puig was hit the nose by an Ian Kennedy pitch, leading to both benches clearing.Nothing serious happened until the next inning, however, when Kennedy went upstairs again and hit Greinke, which sparked a brawl between both clubs as the benches cleared for a second time.Puig was in the middle of the fracas and had to be held back, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. The Diamondbacks were still talking about Puig’s actions Wednesday, saying that the Dodgers were shouting at him, “No! Not you!” as he kept charging back into the melee. Nine games into his career, Puig is already that valuable. The Dodgers were fearful of losing him to an ejection (which happened) and a suspension (which almost certainly will follow). Puig, though, was in a rage. Kennedy had hit him the previous inning, grazing his nose with a 92-mph fastball. According to several Diamondbacks, Puig kept shouting, “Yo soy Cubano!"—“I am a Cuban!”—as he drifted in and out of the fight, at one point landing a ha

On Wednesday, a startup named Spindle announced that Twitter had bought it and was shutting it down. In a Wednesday blog post, the Spindle team said it's relocating from Boston to San Francisco, where Twitter is based and would be sunsetting the app right away. We've reached out to Spindle and Twitter to see if they have a time frame for shutting it down. Spindle makes a mobile app that hoovers up data that businesses post to Facebook and Twitter, analyzes it, and uses it to alert users to things going on around them. For example, the app could help newcomers to a city find nearby happy hours, dinner specials and clothing sales as they're walking around. With Twitter increasingly becoming a mobile-oriented service, Spindle could help Twitter deliver more location-based services of its own. Spindle employed eight people before the Twitter acquisition including a big braintrust from Microsoft. Spindle cofounder and CEO Pat Kinsel, who spent about two years at Microsoft and left in 2010, was in charge of Docs.com, an online version of Microsoft's Office software that was integrated with Facebook. (Docs is still available as a Facebook app.) Kinsel also worked on Bing.com/Twitter, a Microsoft partnership with Twitter that pulls tweets into Bing search results, according to his LinkedIn profile, In fact, Spindle's other two cofounders are also former Microsoft employees. Simon Yun and Alex Lambert, software engineers Jeff Lupien and Keh-Li Sheng, and Alex Jenkins, VP of product. Ray Ozzie, the former Microsoft CTO and chief software architect who left in 2010, is one of the investors Spindle lists on its website. SEE ALSO: Microsoft Pulls A 180 And Removes The Restrictions From The New Xbox That Video Game Fans Revolted Against Join the conversation about this story »

It's been a rough week for S.F. Newspaper Company president Todd Vogt. Not even a day after Vogt defended his company's decision to bring Michelle Shocked back to San Francisco for a free show during SF Pride weekend, the newspaperman has revoked his invitation and cancelled the concert. [ more › ]

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The Open Compute Project hosted its second-ever hardware hackathon on Tuesday and the winning hack, a paired board that allowed for remote monitoring and diagnostics of servers was presented onstage at the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco Wednesday. The winning project was designed by a team that called themselves the Cheesemongers. Their boards were called Cheesy Finger (that’s the board that plugs into each server) and The Big Cheese, the board that sends the collected information from the cheesy fingers to an iPad app. Matt Gabradella, whose day job is at Nebula, led the winning team. Matt Gambardella of Nebula, winner of the Open Compute Hackathon at Structure 2013 John Kenevey, a program manager at Facebook who organizes the hackathons, noted that the social network and Open Compute are trying to build up interest and a series of tools around hardware innovation that will help turn them into a “Maker Faire for the enterprise.” Other than the cheesy project which would help reduce the number of people needed to manage a bunch of servers. Notable hacks included porting Facebook’s HipHop PHP compiler so it ran on a 32-bit ARM-based cluster. Kenevey stressed that Facebook was not moving its production environment to 32-bit ARM servers. More than 50 hackers gathered at Facebook’s headquarters on Tuesday to build six projects during a 13-hour session (it was supposed to be 12). TechShop, Tempo Automation and Upverter provided tooling and machinery to create boards. Check out the rest of our Structure 2013 live coverage here, and a video embed of the session follows below: Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.A near-term outlook for big dataDataSift highlights more limitations in the public cloudDissecting the data: 5 issues for our digital future

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San Francisco Newspaper Company President and Publisher Todd Vogt has ditched plans to host a free Michelle Shocked concert, saying it's done more harm than good to the community. Vogt, who al...