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One is that your essayette doesn’t even mention how good Zito is and how helpful his contract is to the Giants’ future.
The second is related to the first: Brian Sabean is an excellent GM, so all your big think-tanky kind of astrophysicky kind of questions that you’re asking. We can count on Sabean to do the right thing, just like Jesus never lets anything too bad happen to anyone.
Third, once we pick up Maddux (for Ortmeier), he will have the veteranness, savviness, and oldness to tell Bochy that even my cat knows to play Lewis the majority of the time and use Roberts as a spot fill-in guy.

Start Lewis every game after Roberts returns, but have him wear Roberts’ uniform. Whip up the trade frenzy, then trade the real Roberts at the deadline for whatever they can get. Charge the $8 million due him in ‘09 to Double Agent Ned Colletti’s credit card.

... since you mentioned “bullet points”, there needs to be a duel.

I wonder how the Giants would have fared if Durham and AUrilia had hit like this last year in that Bonds filled lineup

You will all come to know the one thing about Bochy that I truly despise.

As someone who has wished injury upon players before, I would like to defend myself. While it sounds terrible, it really is just an acceptance of the reality of the situation. For example, Vizquel needs to be benched and Burriss should play almost every day. This won’t happen unless Vizquel gets hurt. I don’t want him to get hurt, but the only way the Giants will do the right thing is if he is hurt.

Also, magic doesn’t exist so me wishing for something doesn’t actually do anything.

I’m seeing Roberts starting in left 2 days a week and becoming Bochy’s #1 pinch-hitter.

Before the season started, we had some kind of indication that the offense would be bad. That’s still true, even though it’s much, much better than expected. Heck, almost every non-shortstop is a league-average hitter.

Interesting that the hitting has been much better than expected, and yet we are not exactly a .500 team. Was the pitching over estimated to a greater extent than hitting underestimated? I actually think this is a bad sign for 2009 (maybe 2010 as well). If we can actually reduce the Giants line-up woes to a single sucking black hole as SS… and we are still playing .450 ball… how, exactly are we going to make a good team?

I mean we could replace Bocock/Burris/Vizquel with Jose Reyes 2008 and still only be 40-42. Anyone who points out that this would make us “Contenders in the NL West” will be taken out and shot.

I think many of us were laboring under the assumption that with a league-average offense, we would be a pretty good team. Fact is, the pitching + defense hasn’t been all that (8th in the NL in runs allowed—3rd in the NL West, and you can only blame so much on that on Zito)

Is a class act and a teamplayer. He understands this is the time for Fred Lewis. Roberts will be there to assist Lewis in his development. Bochy can use Roberts as a 4th OF, PH, PR and defensive replacement for Lewis in LF.

We are who we thought we were.

Does that mean we crown our own ass (if we want to)?

I will believe it when I see it. Although, Lewis has seemed to have gotten on Bochy’s good side. He’s even started against lefties at times. So if there’s anyone who can overcome veteran-lust, it’s Lewis.

That said, I will believe that the kids will get a fair shake when I see it. This organization has a pretty extensive track record as to giving our semi-prospects a shot.

I’m going to be cautiously optimistic that Freddie will remain the starting LF but I won’t be at all surprised if we start seeing D-Robz in the lineup every day sometime soon.

If Roberts sees any significant playing time, he’d better be at least somewhat productive.

Because if Lewis sits while Roberts shits, I’ll have issues.

Roberts will probably rest Rowand and Winn mainly, plus get a start in LF at times as well. Of course, that means he plays LF while Lewis moves to RF and Rowand or Winn plays CF.

I think it plays out this way because sometime in late April, if I recall right, Roberts acknowledged publicly that he might not come back to a starting position, and that he would be OK with that, that he understands why that might be. He probably wouldn’t have said that if management had not already told him that such a possibility is very possible, else he would say basically what Durham said when Frandsen was calling for his job, “bring it on, I believe in my abilities.” Plus no call for a trade, no pouting, he even said that he would be happy to help them get better while he is out, by giving out tips and such, he was very classy about the whole situation even though that meant a lesser situation for him.

People still doubt the Giants intentions but if they were really that vet oriented, they would have tried to get a better player than Castillo for 3B and looked for a better starter at 1B than Aurilia/Ortmeier. The Rowand signing threw people for a loop in regards to this, but as he has shown this season thus far, the signing was a good one, one that had to be made for the future. Also, they would have signed one of the wandering dead – Jeff Weaver, Ponson, Tomko – as competition for the starting rotation, instead of letting Sanchez and Correia fight over it.

And really, if they were that gosh-darned vet oriented, our entire pitching staff right now would not be almost 100% Giants farmhands AND young. They would all have been traded for other parts already. But they weren’t and that fact is conveniently forgotten by some people.

And plenty of it … to a contender. The objective, so far as I see it, is to test Roberts in a number of roles: starting in LF, starting in CF, pinch hitting, pinch running, late inning flip-flops, substitutions … the whole kit & cabootle. The G’s have three weeks to showcase him, because he already possesses one of THE intanginbles that contenders are all in the market for: a veteran with post-season experience.

Of Durham, Aurilia, and Walker - our three most marketable role players - a healthy Roberts would most likely bring the most in a trade.

Hmm, I would have thought that Dave Roberts would be one for participating if he visited the MCC. That’s too bad. Dave, you really should join in. It’s a lot of fun! And we really don’t hate you that much.

People are suggesting that we trade Randy Winn if we can get a decent prospect or two in return, and while I am sympathetic with the goal, I just don’t think Randy Winn will bring much back for us in trade. So…

... May I suggest… we trade Randy Johnson! We’ll get some nice prospects back from a contender (or even some team who might like a ticket booster for a couple months but not the BLB circus), they send the guys, we quickly put them in Giants uniforms with fake names sewn on them, and by the time the other team figures out that we just sent them Randy Winn, we will have changed our business address to someplace in Mexico. When they call, we answer, “No is Kruger.”

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