Will the Giants make a play for Zimmerman?
by TakeAGiantStepNGo on Oct 3, 2008 10:23 AM PDT
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PrintI believe Ryan Zimmerman is arbitration eligible this year. Will the Nationals deal him after a injury filled year? Are the Giants interested? He would fit nicely in the 3 hole in the Giants lineup. I liked the fact that he came out before the first game this year and said being mediocre won't cut it anymore for him and his team.
I like Zimmerman but what would it take to get him away from Washington? Would they go for Sanchez?
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Hmmm
Would you trade a 24 year old 3rd baseman who hits 20 homeruns, has a 800 OPS and plays at worst a solid defense?
Dude…..
Adopted Son: Brad Hennessey. Beloved for a stolen base much like Dave Roberts
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Oct 3, 2008 10:38 AM PDT reply actions
I got an idea...
Why don’t we all write about the first thought that comes to mind and make a FanPost about it!
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Oct 3, 2008 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Be more creative with your first thought of the day
Trade power for a Lowry bat.
Trade bat for power Lowry?
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Oct 3, 2008 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Trade Lowry for this bat:
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
I hate bats
We had three bats get into our house over the course of seven months a while back. You really haven’t lived until you’ve woken in the middle of the night because of the bat flapping around your room.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 3, 2008 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he made a promise to himself to write everyday and just doesn’t want to take the time to make his own blog.
Schierholtz, Hennessey, Correia, Velez, McClain, Rohlinger, Burriss, Ochoa, and Sosa for David Wright and Jose Reyes! Like, we totally need a SS and a 3B. What do you think guyz?
Adopted Son: Brad Hennessey. Beloved for a stolen base much like Dave Roberts
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Oct 3, 2008 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Who is the GM of the Nationals? Does anybody have anything on him? Maybe we could blackmail him into giving us Zimmerman.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Oct 3, 2008 10:49 AM PDT reply actions
Now all we have to do is catch him ridin’ dirty…..on his segway.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Oct 3, 2008 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of
Ridin’ Dirty was featured on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs this past week. I love VH1’s countdown shows anyway, but this one alternates between being flat out awesome and frickin’ hilarious. I forgot how funny Master P was before he got all srs bznz on us.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 3, 2008 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
who's the guy on the left?
And where’d you find the picture?
Must be fairly recent – I see he’s wearing the under armour prototype trainers.
Less arm, more talk. Raisingcain is a GAMER.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
Zimmerman
Is the type of guy we should be targeting and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that sabean makes a real play for him. Arbitration eligible, cheap team, on a constant rebuild program? I think he’s more available than anyone is giving credit.
I could see us getting Zimmerman
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/Z/Bob-Zimmermann.shtml
Oh, you mean Ryan Zimmerman? No way then
I'd watch a team that had Zimmerman on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zimmerman
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.
Or this Zimmerman
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Nerd.
…I’m waiting for a friend to burn me all the seasons…
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I didn’t like Voyager much at all, actually. But The Doctor ruled.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
I’ve only been able to get into TNG. I’ve watched a bit of TOS but otherwise I can’t get into them.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
/waits for howie to talk up DS9
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.
DS9 was really good, especially after the first season. Voyager sucked. The first two seasons of Enterprise were awful, while the second two were really uneven but actually somewhat underrated.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
this
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 3, 2008 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah but
can that Zimmerman hit?
Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.
John Lennon doesn’t believe in him – what’s his track record on player evaluation?
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
but what does John Lannan think of him?
by FluLikeSymptoms on Oct 3, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I had hoped that my Open Stupid Trade Thread wold embarrass these people enough so that they’d stop with this malarky. But I made a major miscalculation: the people who post these don’t actually bother to read. They just post their nonsense and leave. This guy, for example, has more fanposts than comments. And one of his comments is that Zito is overpaid.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
And one of his comments is that Zito is overpaid.
ORLY?
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Oct 3, 2008 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Sounds like this poster has an incisive and beautiful mind.
We need to know his preference in bottled water.
New Fanpost: If You Were a Lunchmeat, What Lunchmeat Would You Be?
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
That should be a Fanshot.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Oct 3, 2008 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Head Cheese
Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.
If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself?
Speed, defense... and an almost fanatical devotion to getting picked off.
I think you might have flushed these people out with that post. Don’t do that again. Now every yahoo thinks we want to hear their yahoo opinion.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Oct 3, 2008 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
A fanpost from TakeAGiantStepNGo
is like a car accident; I tell myself not to look at, but I do anyway. Then I am repulsed by what I see, regret it, and promise myself all over again that I won’t look at another one.
Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.
Truth be told, I love these posts. They’re just so much fun to make fun of.
We could do with a exponential decrease in their frequency, though.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
I will never admit
that I enjoy making a comment comparing a fanpost from TakeAGiantStepNGo to a car wreck.
Never!
Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.
I wonder if he even reads the comments
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.
In all seriousness...
I’d like to see the moderators start banning people or somehow revoking their FanPosting privileges if they meet the following criteria:
1) Repeated FanPosts involving ridiculous trades, especially if the trade is discussed in the topic of 4 other FanPosts that are still on the front page (coughCainforFieldercough).
2) A pattern of just dropping a FanPost and walking away from the thread, never to be seen again until their next retarded FanPost. I’m pretty sure this is the definition of a troll — this guy is clearly either doing this on purpose to stir up shit, or else it’s just complete literary masturbation (or rosterbation) — either way, anyone who does this is a tool who doesn’t deserve posting privileges.
3) Says “I’m a long time lurker” yet has clearly never read a thread or comments on this site. Listen, assholes — I am a long time lurker, and you’re no John F. Kennedy. Err, wait. But seriously, I just don’t understand these people who are like “I’m a unique snowflake because my mommy told me I was, and my opinion MUST BE HEARD AND RESPECTED, despite the fact that I’m not going to bother hearing/reading anyone else’s opinion before I post my half-baked thread proposal”.
It makes me sad that this site has already degenerated to this and we’re like 3 days into the postseason. If this keeps up, I will be finding other ways to procrastinate from doing work and stuff (or god forbid, I may actually have to do work).
Opinions are welcomed and will be heard and respected
If you’re not a total ding dong, that is.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 3, 2008 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I should add that a lot of this would be solved if SBN added a few features:
1) The ability to add people to an “ignore” list.
2) The ability to rate posts down, in conjunction with users being able to set filters so that we can effectively ignore posts below a certain rating. Make the default setting be to not filter, so that new folks can still see what has already been beaten into the ground.
If I had mod power, I’d probably be swinging the banhammer pretty wildly. That’s why I shouldn’t be given power. You don’t want my finger over the button.
BAN HAMMER VAN HAMMER
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
why so angry about lousy fanposts?? If you see it’s a ridiculous trade or topic, don’t read it or don’t comment on it. I dislike all trade proposals that are fan suggested, because even if they make perfect sense for both sides, they’re not going to happen. I only like to discuss trade rumors that are mentioned in the media as something that the GM’s are actually discussing. However, if others want to suggest Swisher for Rowand, or Cain for anybody, then let them talk about it all they want. I’ll be watching Dexter or True Blood or some other garbage that gets me through the offseason.
Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment
From my perspective, you kind of answered your own question. The thing I love about this site (besides Grant’s writing, of course) is the community of posters that has developed here. I don’t want the posters who are actually smart, funny, and insightful to be driven to go do something else with their time because they are being drowned out by people who can’t even be bothered to read/comment on the reactions to their own fanposts.
I’m afraid there is a vicious cycle going on here. People post repetitive fanposts, either because they don’t know that something has been beaten to death, or they don’t care (to be clear, it’s the latter I have a problem with, and again, I think a good indicator of this is the people who don’t even post in their own threads). The increased volume of fanposts means that fanposts get pushed off the front page faster, meaning that even well-intentioned new people won’t see the other 6 Cain for Fielder posts, and will think that their idea is original. Then the “old school” people get pissed at them, and either ridicule them so much that they never come back, or the “old school” people just decide to visit the site less. Either way, it’s a negative for the quality of the community, and a step closer to my biggest fear for this site, which is that it starts looking more and more like the typical fanboyish team blog and/or the comments section at the bottom of most online newspaper articles.
by dmunk on Oct 3, 2008 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
BAN HAMMER VAN HAMMER VAN HALEN
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Milo and Otis
Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.
Otis Nixon
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 3, 2008 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
No pictures.
Not valid. From here on.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I probably don't use my powers..
Enough. But I’m always worried about abusing them.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I don’t mind the mods banning people if they use good judgment, but …
Every few months (once a year?) people get all irritated about all the fanposts and say the site is going downhill. I don’t think there’s any reason to get all bent out of shape about it. I just skim through or ignore the fanposts that aren’t interesting.
I agree that the repetitive posts can be annoying, but it’s not worth worrying about.
he made a good point however, about the good fan posts being forced off the board if all the recent fanposts are about dopey trades. I guess the solution would be to make better use of the recommended fanpost section. Instead of containing the best fanposts of the last few days, it winds up getting all filled up with daily minor league reports. While I look forward to reading those reports on a daily basis, only the most recent one should be there.
Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment
This
My only real problem with the “dumb” fanposts is that they push good ones off the page.
So when I log in to check up on an interesting discussion about something meaningful (At least, in the baseball world) It’s not there because there are 5 trade matt cain for X threads instead.
That gets annoying. Often times a debate or discussion gets ended prematurely because it gets pushed off the page
Also, when someone (like myself) takes a long time to write an in depth fanpost about something and it gets pushed off the page in a few hours because 4 or 5 people throw up stream of conciousness sub 75 word trade Matt Cain fanposts with little regard for the rest of the community.
That is also annoying.
IMO, a fanpost is a contribution. I may not have the best fanposts out there, but I do put a considerable amount of time and effort into writing them because I don’t want to waste everyones time with something premature and incoherent. I do that because I respect this community.
I guess I feel that others should, as well.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Oct 4, 2008 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Nah
I propose we trade Jonathan Sanchez for Ryan Zimmerman.
Thoughts?
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
I would much rather trade Brandon Phillips for Ryan Zimmerman
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Oct 3, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
JR Phillips for Robert Zimmerman
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
A Phillips screwdriver for the Zimmermann Telegram
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
Michael Phelps for Fred Phelps
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Fred Taylor for Taylor Buchholz?
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 3, 2008 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Matt Cain for Prince Fielder
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
It always comes back to that, doesn’t it?
I still prefer Matt Cain for Cecil Fielder. Or Cecil Cooper! Or Mike Felder.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
John McCain for the Fielding Bible
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
John McCain for Henry Fielding
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Doing 25 to life for the murder of Mama Cass
Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment
USE AN OPEN FACED CLUB!! A SANDWEDGE!!!
mmmm open faced club sandwich
Rafael Rodriguez: More tools than Home Depot.
URBAN MYTH!
An urban legend arose that Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich. Speaking to the press shortly after her body was discovered, the police noted that a partly eaten sandwich had been found in her room and speculated that she may have choked while eating it. When the coroner’s autopsy was performed, no food was found in her trachea and the cause of death was determined to have been heart failure and that she had died in her sleep. But by then, the specious story was already making the rounds and the real cause of death was rarely discussed. Elliot died in the same flat, No.12 at 9 Curzon Place, Mayfair that The Who drummer Keith Moon would die in, a little over four years later.
Also:
I liked the fact that he came out before the first game this year and said being mediocre won’t cut it anymore for him and his team.
Which he promptly followed up with a .283/.333/.442 season full of 102 OPS+ mediocrity.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
On the plus side, his team’s season cannot fairly be described as mediocre.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Perhaps this is what he meant.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Oct 3, 2008 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I would have liked it better if he would have said “we are going to adopt a policy of being satisfied with mediocrity”
by FluLikeSymptoms on Oct 3, 2008 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
not that it will matter
and I know people who are on here a lot get tired of discussing the same topics, but maybe it would be more productive to discuss why this wouldn’t be a good idea, rather than simply bash the author for writing it in the first place. Some people might not be on here a lot spending the time to read all the different fanposts that may or may not have included the same topic.
I’m not saying I agree with this guy, but Zimmerman was once a really good player IIRC, and maybe there’s some validity to asking if he might be someone worth targeting. I for one would love to hear some details about why you think he’s not. Maybe this was in another thread – so link to that.
I just feel like the insults and shit talking are just as bad as the superfluous fanposts.
Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis
The truth is
It’s not even a bad idea. If Zimmerman truly were available, I would support going after him.
It is the fact that this particular poster has had a flurry of irrational and retarded trade fanposts since the season ended that has triggered this response.
The guy has more fanposts than comments – which is an indicator of not really being willing to “play by the rules”
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Oct 3, 2008 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
But if you think that it’s a good idea, then what does it matter? Who cares how many comments he has? Why not just discuss the trade?
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
hes been regularly putting some stupid crap on the niners site recently too
Brad Hennessey: the next Kevin Correia
Kevin Correia: the next Brad Hennessey
by stealth snail on Oct 3, 2008 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
why is Golden State of Mind being left out of his brilliant musings?
by FluLikeSymptoms on Oct 3, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
maybe it would be more productive to discuss why this wouldn’t be a good idea, rather than simply bash the author for writing it in the first place.
Interesting idea, but not thanks.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Oct 3, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Why would a bad team like the Nationals trade their best young star?? That’s why this topic is a waste of time. Trading for Albert Pujols would also be a good idea, but it’s not like it’s going to happen. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if other team’s fans are putting together packages right now that would get them Tim Lincecum.
Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment
DAMN!
Reportedly, the Marlins have re-signed Wes Helms to a 2-year deal. There goes my #1 choice for third base!
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Does Grant have the power to trade our annoying fan posters for other teams’ fan posters? Maybe we can get rid of the guy whose nickname is a movement cleverly integrating the name of his favorite team for a Dodgers fan poster? Then when he posts, we can ignore it and say, hey, that’s just the jackass from the Dodgers, or we could ridicule him into submission. Any thoughts?
for it. What’s Prince Fielder’s SBNation nickname?
I support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Prince of Not Pork?
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 5, 2008 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
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Prince of the Cheese Blintz
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