The Ultimate Matt Cain Trade Proposal

by baetown415 on Sep 19, 2008 1:34 PM PDT

It's been pretty chic around here lately, so I thought I'd give it a try. If everyone hates this post like pretty much all the previous "Trade Matt Cain" posts, then here's a good hijack topic: The best beer in the world comes from (insert opinion here).

"The San Francisco Giants trade pitcher Matt Cain to...."

"....the New York Yankees...."

".....for...."

".....ONE...."

".....BILLION...."

"...DOLLARS."

Awesome, eh?

Unrealistic you say? Well, so are most of the other fanposts.

Maybe my main point is SABEAN SHOULD NOT TRADE CAIN UNLESS HE GETS A BLOW-YOU-OUTTA-THE-WATER-WITH-TWENTY-POUNDS-OF-C4 kind of deal...

And none of us should want anything less than that.

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FAIL

And your hijack doesn’t work here either because the answer is the Northeast of England. And I’m more than qualified on the subject…just look at my name.

Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.

by PacBellBoozer on Sep 19, 2008 1:40 PM PDT 0 recs

the latest round of rumors has Cain going to Milwaukee for Prince Fielder and JJ Hardy. I’m a big Cain fan, but I really think you have to do that if you’re the Giants. Assuming they find a decent replacement for Cain, a trade like that makes you an instant contender in the NL West, and Fielder and Hardy are 24 and 26 respectively.

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by rxmeister on Sep 19, 2008 1:42 PM PDT 0 recs

Assuming they find a decent replacement for Cain

This is a massive assumption.

by rotorueter on Sep 19, 2008 1:49 PM PDT up 0 recs

Get CC

Bengie, Pablo, Prince, and CC playing for the Giants. If I was funny, I’d make a joke about this, because it has potential.

Barry Zito: so-so command of the changeball

by jordanovich on Sep 19, 2008 2:04 PM PDT up 0 recs

I’ll post it for you, sounds like a latin based doggie porn with some butt out jeans.

by Big Daddy J on Sep 19, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up 0 recs

I dunno, if the Phone Booth is built on landfill they might have to do some retro-fitting

by Merope on Sep 19, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up 0 recs

The 2009 marketing campaign would be....

“San Francisco Giants. Literally.”

Disfrute Los Gigantes every day at www.leftymalo.com

by leftymalo on Sep 19, 2008 3:35 PM PDT up 0 recs

+1

Haha

by Giant Voodoo on Sep 19, 2008 4:57 PM PDT up 0 recs

This would infuse young blood

into the MLB “All Fat Guy” team!

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 19, 2008 3:41 PM PDT up 0 recs

praise the lard

"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"

by The Gene Hackman on Sep 19, 2008 6:10 PM PDT up 0 recs

That would be irresponsible for a team located on an active fault.

I'm adopting a true Giant and an awe-inspring gamer: tk. "Atta babe."

by Mayor of 311 on Sep 22, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up 0 recs

I’d do that for those two. Have fielder for a year or two and then trade him for the kitchen sink so Anvil can come rake up here.

by Big Daddy J on Sep 19, 2008 2:14 PM PDT up 0 recs

Was this really a round of rumors, though? I thought it was one rumor, and not even quite a rumor at that. More of a “one guy speculates that a trade might be possible sometime in the future.” I can’t even remotely find Gammons’ quote on that (the googles do nothing!), and everywhere else I see it is all like “Gammons said [blah] and might not even have a source.”

I don’t know if this whole rumor thing is as flimsy as it all seems to be to me based on what limited amount I know or could find… but it seems a little flimsy.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 19, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

Baggarly mentioned this as well in the Merc and he said that it’s a rumor that has been “floating around.” I don’t know where Gammons got it, but I would guess the source of these rumors isn’t very solid. It’s probably just something someone thought up because the Brewers are losing their best two starters to free agency, and the Giants are desperate for a big bat.

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by rxmeister on Sep 19, 2008 2:36 PM PDT up 0 recs

I would do that trade in two seconds, and the Brewers would not.

by Grant on Sep 19, 2008 3:46 PM PDT up 0 recs

Exactly

That trade singlehandedly makes offering Sabathia a contract a good idea.

It also makes the Giants instant favorites in the NL west.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 19, 2008 4:17 PM PDT up 0 recs

The problem with CC is that he’s going to make more than Zito money. How many 100 million contracts can you have?? Lincecum is eventually going to get that too, and you can only hope that the kids we have now develop into expensive players in the future. The payroll would be astronomical though. You want to keep Fielder?? 100 million. Pablo, AnVil and Posey?? 100 million apiece. I think a good idea here would be to forget about CC and take a run at Sheets. His injury history forces his price way down. He may even take a short term deal to reestablish his top of the line value.

Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment

by rxmeister on Sep 20, 2008 6:23 AM PDT up 0 recs

Say what?

You think it should be part of the Giants strategy to go after more starting pitchers? I can’t think of a lower priority for this team.

"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002

by achiappanza on Sep 20, 2008 6:58 PM PDT up 0 recs

How?

How would trading Matt Cain for Prince Fielder make the Giants instant favorites in the 2009 NL West? I love the deal, but I doubt it would make them even a .500 team next season without some other complementary moves.

by sharksrog on Sep 20, 2008 11:20 PM PDT up 0 recs

Well...

I agree that chances are that the Brewers would not do this deal. If I had to look at it from the “Why would the Brewers do this?” standpoint I would figure that:

1. Escobar- is replacing Hardy for cheap
2. Fielder is unhappy and will require many dollars to stay and can be replaced by Gamel or Braun
3. Brewers need pitching and one more real pitcher may make them competitive. Cain, Gallardo, Parra, Supan and [other guy] would not be a bad rotation.
4. They may be thinking that if this current incarnation of the Brewers cannot make the playoffs this year then they might not ever make it.

Like Grant, I would do this trade in a second but I also see reasons why it might happen.

I am Cameron Wood and this is my son and business partner CW Culberson.

by camwoody on Sep 19, 2008 5:20 PM PDT up 0 recs

Could you imagine a Winn/Lewis/Hardy/Fielder/Sandoval/Rowand/Molina/Frandsen? And then our rotation would be Lincecum…Sanchez…uh…that one guy…and…uh….

…$130M for Sabathia? I don’t see why not….

and…uh…Zito….

Never mind. I’d probably just prefer to watch Cain.

by Grant on Sep 19, 2008 5:55 PM PDT up 0 recs

That line up looks nice.

I could watch those guys bat.
That rotation needs help but I see it two ways:

Stand pat (which I am fine with) and have two maybe three really good starters on a team that might score runs for them in 2010.

Pull this trade off and have three maybe four really good bats and a rotation that might be back on its feet by 2010.

Yeah maybe watching Cain is better.

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by camwoody on Sep 19, 2008 6:46 PM PDT up 0 recs

It’s not too late to delete this.

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 19, 2008 2:26 PM PDT 0 recs

Someone

who is not as lazy as I am needs to go through every TRADE MATT CAIN Fanpost this season and post a ranking of them from best to worst. Then make it a Fanshot.

No, my Crazy Crab bobblehead is not for sale.

by Kitspool on Sep 19, 2008 2:32 PM PDT 0 recs

but only if it’s a literal fanshot, where the person who posts it is actually lined up in front of a firing squad.

Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment

by rxmeister on Sep 19, 2008 2:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

Note to self: google image search of “fanshot” not as fun as it sounds.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 19, 2008 2:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

you're right

I did this with safe search off and not one fucking n00d!

NOT ONE!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Fairley odd parent to Wendell

by WTF on Sep 19, 2008 2:50 PM PDT up 0 recs

How is possible to google image search ANYTHING that has the word “shot” in it and not get anything worthwhile back!?

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 19, 2008 3:06 PM PDT up 0 recs

Well..

There is a guy with a blowup doll sitting on his lap riding a motorcycle. Does that count? (Note: This is a search of “fan shot.”)

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by WalrusMan on Sep 19, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

It might very well break the Fan Shots Section.
/ using best Scotty voice
It was not meant to handle that kind of capacity Captain.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 19, 2008 2:51 PM PDT up 0 recs

For the love of Matt, make the madness of these posts stop!!!

"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler

by JRPhillips on Sep 19, 2008 3:10 PM PDT 0 recs

Are you raising cain over these trade suggestions?

by Merope on Sep 19, 2008 3:20 PM PDT up 0 recs

Is it possible to hijack your own thread?

by ACgiant97 on Sep 19, 2008 3:47 PM PDT 0 recs

So how'd the Earthquake go?

Damn! Not supposed to do that, that’s Natto’s job!

by WalrusMan on Sep 19, 2008 4:38 PM PDT up 0 recs

Still not too late to delete it

I for one will pretend like it never happened

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 19, 2008 4:44 PM PDT 0 recs

Like what never happened?

by WalrusMan on Sep 19, 2008 5:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

If this is absolutely the worst non-serious fanpost/attempt at sarcasm that you’ve ever read, I will delete it. Just for you delorean

Adopted Giant: Aaron King

Wearing the crown by 2011. Or at least the LOOGY hat

by baetown415 on Sep 19, 2008 7:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

Brewers

with yet another collapse by the Brewers they may be looking to blow it up a little bit anyway. And seeing as they have young, cheap replacements for Hardy and Fielder I don’t see why they wouldn’t try to trade for someone like Cain. And if they can’t retain CC or Sheets, I could see them making a run at AJ Burnett.

by Hobbes2d on Sep 19, 2008 6:15 PM PDT 0 recs

the problem is that if the Brewers don’t make the playoffs, they probably fire Doug Melvin. And if this trade was ever realistically discussed between Sabean and Melvin, the new GM would have a different idea on how to improve the team.

Brian Sabean's new dad: Firm believer in corporal punishment

by rxmeister on Sep 22, 2008 9:29 AM PDT up 0 recs