The San Francisco Giants will play 33 preseason games in Arizona starting March 3.

The G-men released their 2012 Cactus League schedule on Friday.

The preseason schedule includes an additional three games in the Bay Area – two at AT&T Park and one in Oakland, the team said.

Of the 33 Cactus League games in Arizona, 16 will be played at Scottsdale Stadium.

The Giants have trained in Scottsdale since 1982. They drew 160,574 fans last spring, an average of 10,036 per game. Their overall attendance ranked second in the Cactus League behind Arizona, the team said.

The Giants’ tentative 2012 regular season schedule was released last month. Their season opener is in Arizona on Friday, April 6, and their home opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates is on Friday, April 13.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men accused of brutally beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in a Dodger Stadium parking lot on opening day should be held liable for potentially tens of millions of dollars in a family lawsuit, an attorney who represents the team and its owner said Thursday.

Lawyer Jerome Jackson filed a cross-complaint last week that argues Marvin Norwood and Louis Sanchez — not the Dodgers— are to blame for the brain damage that Stow suffered in March. Both Norwood and Sanchez have pleaded not guilty to one count each of mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury.

Jackson also predicted that if the case goes to trial, jurors could decide that Stow himself shares some of the blame.

“I’ve been doing these cases for 23 years and I have never seen one yet which it didn’t take at least two people to tango,” Jackson told ESPNLosAngeles.com.

“One of the things the jury will be asked to do is to determine what percentage of fault various individuals have for this event,” Jackson told the website. “You’re saying to the jury, ‘They (the Stow family) are saying we’re 100% liable. But does that mean (Marvin) Norwood and (Louis) Sanchez who beat this guy up, have no liability? And does it mean Mr. Stow himself has no liability?’”

“We want all the defendants and all the facts before the court,” Jackson told The Associated Press.

Stow’s negligence and liability lawsuit, filed earlier this year and before Norwood and Sanchez were arrested, only blames the Dodgers organization and owner Frank McCourt for the attack, alleging poor lighting and security problems at the ballpark. The cross-complaint adds Stow’s alleged attackers as defendants.

Jackson said the outrage that ensued after the attack toward McCourt has been misdirected.

“If these two suspects are indeed found guilty, I think most people would agree they bear some financial responsibility,” Jackson said. “It wasn’t Mr. McCourt out there beating people up in the parking lot.”

A call to Stow family attorney Tom Girardi wasn’t immediately returned.

Stow, a 42-year-old paramedic from Santa Cruz, suffered serious brain injuries during the attack. He was recently moved from San Francisco General Hospital to a rehabilitation center.

The Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware earlier this year and Stow’s representatives sit on the official committee of creditors. Girardi has contended his client’s medical bills could exceed $50 million.

The creditors’ committee and Fox Sports each asked a judge to deny the Dodgers’ bid to auction television rights, which is key to McCourt’s strategy to emerge from bankruptcy as the team’s owner.

A four-day evidentiary hearing pitting the Dodgers against Major League Baseball and slated to begin on Monday has been pushed back to late November.

San Francisco Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt spoke candidly on SWX Tonight on Tuesday and explained exactly how he cut his hand – a cut that ended his season on the mound.

Affeldt, a native of Spokane and a graduate of Northwest Christian School said he cut his non-throwing hand while trying to separate frozen hamburgers during a barbecue with family and friends on Sept. 8.

“I was separating the meat pretty good, and there was this one – I thought it was frozen still. The knife went right through the meat and into the palm of my hand and got stuck in the bone on the backside of my palm,” he explained.

Affeldt said he felt pain immediately, describing it like an electric shock that went all the way up to his elbow. In fact, he had severed 80-percent of his Ulnar nerve.

“My buddies heard me yell, and the way I yelled they knew it wasn’t a ‘hi, how ya doin, how are you guys doin’ out there’ type of yell.”

Affleldt came within a millimeter of an artery and had to undergo several hours of surgery to repair the damaged nerve. He still wears a brace and is scheduled to see a physical therapist on Thursday in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Affeldt’s agent is currently in negotiations with the Giants about coming back to San Francisco next season.

The San Francisco Giants’ biggest viral video creator, Ashkon, is back in a video supporting San Francisco’s interim mayor, Ed Lee, to run for another term.

He’s not alone.

Rappers MC Hammer and Will.I.Am join Giants closer Brian Wilson, former 49ers safety Ronnie Lott and numerous others in the video, set to one of the greatest songs ever written by human beings.

Check out the insanity in the video below.

Interim San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has firmly locked up the MC Hammer vote.

That’s right, the 1990s rapper stars in a campaign video for Lee that was released Tuesday by a group called “San Franciscans for Jobs and Good Government.”

The video features San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson, former 49er Ronnie Lott, Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and yes, Hammer himself, parodying his 1991 hit “2 Legit 2 Quit.”

The lyrics include: “My music hits me so hard, Newsom left and they put him in charge. Thank you, for blessing me and the rest of the city with Mayor Ed Lee.”

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SAN FRANCISCO — Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt is healing well from a season-ending hand injury sustained when he seriously cut himself trying to separate frozen hamburgers.

Affeldt said Wednesday he expects to be done wearing a protective brace on his non-throwing right hand soon, perhaps in the coming days. He will fly from his home in Spokane, Wash., to the Bay Area on Thursday to be examined by a hand specialist and physical therapist. They will gauge his progress and determine the next step.

“Hopefully I’m done with it,” he said of the brace. “I’ll know tomorrow.”

Affeldt was at home on an off day Sept. 8 when the paring knife he was using pushed through a hamburger patty and deep into his hand. He came within a millimeter of an artery and underwent surgery about eight hours after the injury to repair nerve damage in his pinkie.

“My hand is great,” said Affeldt, who will begin his offseason throwing program in December. “The workouts are good and I started already. I figured I got September off.”

Affeldt has a $5 million contract option for 2012 and general manager Brian Sabean has said the pitcher will probably be back, even if it means declining the option and working out a new deal. Affeldt said he will let his agent handle all negotiations with the 2010 World Series champions.

“I expect him to be in uniform with us next year,” Sabean said when the season ended. “I don’t know exactly how that’s going to happen, but the option is the option. If we have to pick it up, we could end up picking it up. If we decide to re-negotiate in some form, that could happen, too.”

The lefty went 3-2 with a 2.63 ERA and three saves in 67 outings this season. He had given up only three earned runs over his last 22 1-3 innings before the injury and his 1.21 ERA since the All-Star break was seventh-lowest among NL relievers with a minimum of 20 innings.

There isn’t a rehab regimen for Affeldt’s injury and he should be at full strength for the start of spring training in February. Getting the surgery done immediately was important.

Injured catcher Buster Posey, meanwhile, is on schedule to be ready by spring training. As was the goal for this month, he is catching bullpens in Arizona as part of his rehab from a broken bone in his lower left leg and three torn ligaments in his ankle. He was hurt and lost for the season in a home-plate collision with Florida’s Scott Cousins on May 25.

“Buster is well,” athletic trainer Dave Groeschner said in a text message. “He has caught four pens so far.”

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