I love the spoiler alerts…and I didn’t think I’d ever be impressed as much as yesterday’s animated poll results.

I disagree. If we’re automatically conceding his starts as automatic losses, maybe we can turn them into Charlie-Finley-esque circuses to help attract crowds.
For example, you know that Zito may be starting today, but you don’t know WHERE. Only to arrive at the ballpark to discover he’s playing CF and batting in the 6 spot. Stay tuned, in his next start, we won’t pull him from the game when he blows up…we’ll make him catch the bullpen pitchers who have to clean up his mess!! In June, Zito will be sport the craziest facial hair imaginable, where fans can vote on what color to dye it.
I’d come to the ballpark for all of those.

You get the point. For 126milion i could care less if we’re making a mockery of him.
If the team has little to no hope of winning a ballgame anyways, let’s at least see them have some g’damn fun!

When Noah Lowry returns from injury, what do the Giants do? I’d much rather see a Cain – Lincecum – Sanchez – Correia – Lowry rotation than any rotation with Zito included.

Could Zito be placed on the DL with “fastballitis”?

maybe he should learn to pitch right handed.

There’s nothing the Giants can do. Moving him to the bullpen won’t help.

Won’t help what? Won’t help him or the team?

The Giants have a couple of days off early in May (the 1st and the 5th) Zito should skip a turn. It Won’t Hurt.

a Jerome Williams minor league contract isn’t sounding so bad, hmm?

...if we could invent a sort of Reverse Spoiler Alert?
Where if you highlit Zito he’d disappear?

But when the hell did three runs become “run support”? I heard Krukow last night, and on KNBR this morning say that Zito had finally received some run support but couldn’t close the deal.

Yes, the team did grant him the lead early in the game, but is three runs really run support? Oy vey!

What worries me besides his performance is how his contract will affect the Giants’ ability to lock up Cain and Lincecum past these first few years. I do realize that Cain does have a contract signed, but once they enter those arbitration years, I don’t want to lose them just because we spent too much on a crappy pitcher and can’t compete with offers from the Yankees or some other rich team. I guess Rowand may have affected this issue just as much, but at least he’s been hitting some.

In 2006 towards the end of the season his fastballs were between 85 and 86 occasionally pumping it up to 88. Did the Gianst not have fsn bay area or scouts? Because if they did they would have seen a pitcher with curve ball that does not have the snap it once did and a fastball that is little league. The sad part about it is the Giants have 2 aces in Cain and Lincecum or however you spell his name and Lowry can be a solid pitcher so getting Zito seemed strange to me but I am glad the A’s do not have him anymore

There was an interview with Tim Lincecum on the Dibble and Kennedy show on XM just now. Tim, asked about Zito, said:

“He’s going to find it. I mean, he’s a Cy Young winner, he knows what he’s doing out there. It’s just about making the adjustment.”

The rest of the interview was mainly about Frank Sinatra and Call of Duty IV

There was an interview with Tim Lincecum on the Dibble and Kennedy show on XM just now. Tim, asked about Zito, said:

“He’s going to find it. I mean, he’s a Cy Young winner, he knows what he’s doing out there. It’s just about making the adjustment.”

The rest of the interview was mainly about Frank Sinatra and Call of Duty IV

were solidly at 105 ERA+, 5+ K/9, 1.4 WHIP, 200 IP for 2007, then he might be tradable (if we agreed to eat $6-10m of yearly salary) to a high payroll team like NYY or the Angeles Angels who could use an inning muncher.

But ummmm yeah at 73 ERA+, 1.792 WHIP, 3.51 K/9 – he’s not going anywhere.

I find myself wondering if Zito is just aware of the shame/pressure of his situation as we are, and is trying too hard, pushing, messing with his delivery too much, trying something anything everything to give a ROI …

I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer; I only realized yesterday that the 6-man rotation talk was just a way to cut down on Zito’s starts. Of course Lowry actually has to come back, so let’s reserve any judgment about that (although even letting Yabuuuuuu run out there every sixth day would probably at least cut down on Z’s start numbers.

There’s a lot of loose talk about Rueter and now Jamie Moyer, but I don’t know that Zito has that kind of control in the first place. And Rueter seemed to manage to last through a lot of his terrible starts. I don’t know if he just served the ball up to cut down pitch counts or what, but whatever it was Zito isn’t going to be doing that any time soon. Right now comparing him to Moyer is an insult to Moyer. The guy won 20 games at the ages of 38 and 40. HGH or no, he’s always given up a lot of runs but he’s also not stuck his bullpen with 6 innings of mop-up every game.

So, here’s my answer. If the Ginats won’t pay him $14M to pitch in Fresno, or to pitch in Texas or whatever, then either he becomes the mop-up guy or he becomes the designated mop-up starter. With a designated mop-up reliever to accompany him in games. Yabuuuuu or Henny Penny should know that, when Zito goes, they’ll be going too. Yes, it becomes a waste of two roster spots instead of one, but that’s a small price to pay for “saving face”, which they’ve clearly already decided to do.

PS. I accidentally typed “doo” at the end of that last sentence, which Dr. Freud might have diagnosed as a slip.

Crap!