Assuming this is true for good, It will probably be the hardest thing I've ever done as a fan watching Bonds play for another team and rooting for the Giants team that he should be playing on. From an objective point of view, I just don't see how it could possibly be the right move for the franchise in 2008. As a fan, I would be devastated. Assuming it is true, I have to call bullshit on Magowan & Co., because it would be the fattest load of the stuff they've ever dropped at my front door.

Bah. Humbug.

Still, reading that made me sad. I really don't care if he's just saying that he loves the fans who supported him. I love him. That's all that matters to me.

 Then in my magical dream world, they resign him over the winter for a farewell tour.

I say this because him playing for the Dodgers is a statistical impossibility.

I really hope you didn't mean that.

I know this is just your opinion, and I know why you feel this way because we've duked it out before, and I respect your position, but I have to call bullshit on the sentiment itself (not your personal feelings) because that's how I feel about it.

The way I see it, I want him to win a WS ring because he deserves it.  And if he can't do it here, then I wish him the best of luck winning it elsewhere.

You're right in saying Magowan has done great things for the Giants- but this was long ago.  I guess we should be and are thankful for that, but it's hard to remember when the present and immediate future are so damn bleak.  I have lost respect for him, however, with the way he handled this situation.  This should have been addressed at an earlier time.  The fact that Barry JUST found out is ludicrous, IMO.

That Magowan "saved the Giants" is an urban legend that he does absolutely nothing to dissuade. Exactly what you expect from a trust-fund baby with very few un-aided accomplishments of his own.

And now they're evicting him on short notice.

That's fucked up.

1A) Getting rid of Bonds, aka: the only remotely legit 3/4/5 hitter on the roster at any level, will make the Giants an even less attractive destination to FA's, forcing the team to pay a percentage on top of competing offers to attract players (call it the 100-loss premium).  

2. I doubt the Giants could find a better use for Bonds' 400 ABs. Schierholtz is a right fielder, Davis and Lewis are platoonish 4th outfielders. Bonds' AB's will probably end up going to Winn or Roberts, both of whom should be traded (something I think is less likely to occur with Bonds out of the picture).
3. Bonds is a draw. He may not sell as many tickets as he used to, but, just as important to the team, he will help get people with tickets to actually show up to the games. I don't know if he'd literally earn back the 15M in drawing power, but he'd be a better bet to do so than anyone else the Giants could sign with that cash.

Thats the point!  It has more to do with that than anything else. That he is one of the top hitters in MLB is what makes this whole shitcanning episode so disagreeable.

The sentiment is coming from Magowan. It reeks of his inferiority complex. Thats the sentiment. Not Bonds. I don't know if you saw the Magowan Press Conference, but his body language was classic guilt and avoidance with his constant looking down and away and his rambling defensive mumbling about how respectful Bonds was. Pathetic performance by a little man with too much money and too much power. A pipsqueak is what he would have been referred to back in the day.  A guy like him would have been run out of town in the 30s.

Um , Dad?
WilRiv's a closet Dodger fan.
But spanking him just makes him smile.

In this case I think Goofus should vent the fuck out of the place in such a way that everyone who is reading his words blinks a few times then slowly shuts down their computer and wanders away and then calls their mom to say "I love you."  Afterwards they go for a run while stopping to smell the flowers.

Eventually they come home and fire up the ole PC and come back to this site and then check to make sure what they thought they had read was real.  True to their eyes the post is excactly the same but now there is a newer more soul crushing post that is so full of emotion that the Alan Ginsberg rises from his grave and after consultation changes the name of his poem to "meh" and encourages Goofus to call his ode to Magown "Howl."

Goofus then becomes a multi-zillionaire and buys the team.  He then goes on to have a pres conference where he calls out Magowan to a one on one in front of a national audience for the WWE championship.  A stone cold stunner and a rock bottom later, Magowan is in a figure four leg lock, writhing in pain.  The honorary referee, Bonds, then deuces in Pete's mouth, declares San Francisco the winner and signs a lifetime contract with the Giants to play till he can't any more and then be a hitting consultant.

Goofus then signs Arod, Andru Jones, and Dreamy (forcing Sabean to do the work) and fires Bochy.  In a moment of kindness he gives Sabean the benefit of the doubt and allows him one more year to fill the holes in the line-up.

Goofus then sits back and consults with Grant and comes to the decision that none of this would have happened had it not been for the asshatery of giantsrainman and wilriv.  He makes a post thanking them for being such gigantic fuckclown douches that they are no longer able to hold up the charade and stop posting.  Mysteriously DodgerTop and DodgerBottom begin posting much more often at some shitty dodger blog.