Bummer. Let’s let Misch, Palmer, Threets, and Hennessey start the rest of the games – then we’d have a fighting chance.

this stuff is so unimportant. The Giants’ picked tenth in 2006 and got the best player in the draft. They picked tenth again in 2007 and might have pulled it off again, although it’s way too early to tell. This year they picked fifth and once again got the Silver Spikes winner. I finally climbed aboard the “fire Sabean” bandwagon early this year, and now I have stepped back off. They probably don’t keep stats on this, (although Xanthan might have something), and the jury is still way out, but there’s a chance that the Giants picked the best player in the draft three years in a row, despite the fact that they haven’t had great draft position. I don’t know how much Sabean had to do with this, but if he gets fired, there’s a possibility that the people who told him to draft Lincecum, Bumgarner and Posey go with him, and I would hate to see that happen.

If we were to sign a top tier free agent our pick needs to be in the top 10 to be protected does it not? This is why I’d like a top 10 pick, not because I particularly want a top tier free agent, but if we were to get one I would’t be happy about giving up a pick to do so.

Don’t forget that if we finish with the 10th worst record, we’ll actually get the No. 11 pick because the Nats didn’t sign Crow. They get compensation pick 9A or some such, essentially the 10th pick.